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MX Day, October 1st in Stuttgart

by kai on 09/10/2004

On Oct 1st, Macromedia UK invited web developers to join the first German MX Days - which is intended to grow into a series and take place several times a year. The Stuttgart event itself was a nice one, Macromedia announced Kevin Lynch and Tim Buntel during the beginning of their event marketing phase, but ended up with both not being there which was too sad. I hope and expect they'll make it…

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Public recordings MMUG Tech Wednesday

by kai on 13/09/2004

Here's a list of public sessions, Ed Sullivan (the Macromedia User Group Program Manager) sent around some while ago. Feel free to watch: Session: Lip Syncing in Flash Speaker: Team Macromedia Member, Chris Georgenes Description: Learn how to lip sync animations using Flash http://macromedia.breezecentral.com/p48069653/ Session: Flash Video Kit Speaker: Macromedia Director of Product Marketing,…

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Breezo: "Securing your ColdFusion MX Server"

by kai on 13/09/2004

Macromedias User Groups do Tech Wednesday sessions via Breeze presentations nearly every week. As a User Group Manager you're obviously not allowed to publish each and every recording and content people are distributing there, but this one is very interesting for everynody running a CF server...

Securing your ColdFusion MX Server

Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone VI

by kai on 08/09/2004

- Multiple Instances: For most of the people it was a mess to setup CF with multiple instances on one machine. There is a instance manager now which allows to duplicate complete CF installations. Also, the nasty issue with the replication of CFC instances in the session scope (they didn't replicate) will be fixed...;) - CF DW Extensions: Creating datasources directly out of Dreamweaver etc. -…

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone V

by kai on 08/09/2004

Some more information on printing and stuff... - For creating reports, MM provides a Tool called ColdFusion Report Builder, some sort of visual tool to define the layout of a to become generated report from query fields or other data. This tool creates so called .crf files which are necessary to use CFREPORT. Included is a basic query builder, and wizards to define charts (in fact this is…

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone IV

by kai on 08/09/2004

After cake, sweets, fruits and tons of coffee... - Printing and Reporting: always a mess to define proper print output and to define reporting formats. - Blackstone solution: * CFDOCUMENT with attribute format="pdf" creates a pdf file. * Embedding CFLOOP in a CFDOCUMENT wrapper works, also with dynamic data inside * CFDOCUMENTITEM with type="header" or type="footer" etc. helps layouting…

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone III

by kai on 08/09/2004

Continuing with the form stuff: - Since CF 2 the product provided nice tags like CFTREE, CFGRID etc. which had been realised as Java applets with all the pros and cons of that technology. - Blackstone solution: The approach is using the Flash technology as a frontend. That means for example that CFGRID received a new attribute format="flash" which produces a Flash based GRID. By just reviewing…

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone II

by kai on 08/09/2004

Let me just express that I'm deeply impressed by the travel of Oğuz Demirkapı, User Group Manager of CFUG Turkey who travelled over to Cologne for seeing Ben speaking about Blackstone.

That's what I call a CF_GROUPIE ;)

Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone I

by kai on 08/09/2004

Today Ben Forta speaks about Blackstone over here in Cologne, Germany. This entry is updated regularly during his session... - An interesting observation: over 50% of the attendants are using CF MX or higher already. There were just one or two people just running on CF 4.something. - Did you know that CF was backwards compatible to DBML up to including CF 5? To clear that up: DBML was the first…

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Registration for the Ben Forta event openend up again

by kai on 06/09/2004

Ouups, the registration page for the Ben Forta event in Cologne on September 8th shut down it's services and just presented that the event is booked out. Macromedia enhanced their room booking now ;) and there are further seats to book now...

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