Special Cold Fusion Builder Event
March 24th at 7 pm
Location:
GCA Technology Services in Tampa, FL
4919 Memorial Hwy. Suite 150
Tampa, FL 33634
4919 Memorial Hwy. Suite 150
Tampa, FL 33634
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Bill Gates speaks at TED about the need for “miracles” to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he’s backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor.
Check it out here.
Announcing a new Meetup for The Online ColdFusion Meetup!
What: “FarCry CMS 6.0″, with Geoff Bowers
WHEN: Thurs. Feb 18, 6:00pm US ET (UTC/GMT-5)
MEETING URL: http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/
DURATION: Approx. 1 hour
Meeting will be recorded. URL will be posted after meeting at http://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com
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Announcing a new Meetup for The Online ColdFusion Meetup!
What: “CF911: ColdFusion Tools for When the Stuff Hits the Fan”, with Charlie Arehart
WHEN: Thurs. Feb 18, 12:00pm US ET (UTC/GMT-5)
MEETING URL: [url=http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/]http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/
DURATION: Approx. 1 hour
Meeting will be recorded. URL will be posted after meeting at http://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com
Object Oriented CSS
Jul 8
Ben Nadel posted a very good article about Nicole Sullivan’s video “Object Oriented CSS”.
You may check his post and here is the video:
I attended today our ADOGO (Adobe Developers of Greater Orlando) meeting. Adam Fortuna spoke about the new stuff coming with the HTML5 standards by the W3C. (You may read it here: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/)
It was a very good presentation, he and his colleague Daniel from Izea showed some examples using the localStorage feature where you can now store data locally on the client’s computer (maximum 4MB). That will be good for working offline with data entry and then connecting later to upload.
The new tags <header>, <footer>, <aside>, <article> are cool, but the coolest I think are <video> <audio> and <canvas>. Easy way to show video, graphics.
Unfortunately, those features are supported only by Firefox 3.x and the Mac browser, no Internet Explorer yet (it will be a long time until Microsoft launches IE9).
Well, good job Adam, and thanks for sharing.
Last month, during my vacation in Rio de Janeiro, I took the opportunity to accept an invitation from the educational foundation Dom André Arcoverde in Valença (State of Rio de Janeiro) to talk about current web technology in the United States. I spoke to the Faculty of Information Technology about ColdFusion and other Adobe products like Flex, Air, but mostly about ColdFusion.
I want to thank Ben Forta and the Adobe Team for their support in sending me several Powerpoint presentations and DVDs for distribution.
Unfortunately, maybe because of the security detectors at the airports, my netbook failed and I lost everything I had prepared, even the backup pen-drives. So I had 2 days left to prepare a new presentation. With more information about the level of knowledge of the students there, I could prepare a new presentation on their level, more interactive, with much more code examples. Most of the students and teacher didn’t even know what ColdFusion was.
Well, the final result was amazing. Both students and faculty understood the power of ColdFusion through the examples shown “on-the-fly”. They were amazed by the speed od coding and the results. So, now the faculty is planning to implement ColdFusion at the university for the administration and in a near future, to implement ColdFusion in their curriculum (right now they teach PHP and some Java).
I considered my job done, and hope the CF community can start going to universities and schools to promote our beloved ColdFusion.
Brazil ColdFusion Web Day
Mar 16
ColdFusion Web Day is the first event on-line in Brazil totally dedicated to sharing of techniques, concept and market of one of the most productive language in web programming.
There will be 5 hours of lectures with great participants of the Brazilian ColdFusion community, sharing lots of information about ColdFusion, its market in Brazil, functionalities, productivity, news, and future versions.
The event will be on April 11th 2009 from 1:30 pm (Rio de Janeiro: UTC-3, 12:30pm EST), and it will be totally free on-line. Just enter your name and e-mail address on the menu “Quero Participar” (I want to join). On the event’s day , the link to the conference room will be available.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the differentials of one of the languages most used in the development of rich internet applications (RIA). Learn about ColdFusion!
The lectures will be in Portuguese.
Congratulations to the folks of Broadchoice, the big names on ColdFusion like Sean Corfield, Ray Camden, Joe Rinehart and others, for the excellent product they have launched recently, the Broadchoice Workspace. I had the opportunity to try the beta version and now with the final version I can see that they have aleady more than 700 users.
They are having a weekly webinar on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 am PST. I recommend everyone to join. Download the application and join the workspace.
Here is the link: http://www.broadchoice.com
