Michael Smith MDCFUG Tobe Goldfinger NYCFUG Sandra Clark MDCFUG DevCon 2002 Report Michael Smith MDCFUG Tobe Goldfinger NYCFUG Sandra Clark MDCFUG 11/27/2018 TeraTech

Introduction Three conferences: Fusebox CF_Underground IV DevCon 2002 + Community Suite and Expo 11/27/2018 TeraTech

Fusebox Conference Fusebox 3 is mature FuseQ reuse of circuits outside parent circuit, multi-alias Fusebox and CFMX and CFCs Pleasantville Prototyping Steve Fusedoc v2 unit testing tool Adalon Free Wireframing tool Copyrights and licenses 11/27/2018 TeraTech

CF_Underground IV FLiP for the mainstream CF_Jeopardy Project Management tips Essential tools for CF 11/27/2018 TeraTech

DevCon 2002 Deliver “experiences” to users. Eg Starbucks. Evolution of business: Raw materials, Goods, services, experience Hot topics: elearning, accessibility, usability, developing for devices 508 on Director – speech synthesis ->Flash? 11/27/2018 TeraTech

More general info Flash 6 on Clie, House IO, Palm OS Flash Remoting coming of age, CFCs and web services Flash communication server and video add ons 2300 attendees, 70% CF More than 50% of sessions on non CF subjects 11/27/2018 TeraTech

Neat stuff Studio MX integration of code, Flash, images DW Nested templates auto update DW extensions </hassle> content tool XML tools in CFMX – structure, xpath and xslt 11/27/2018 TeraTech

More neat stuff Use of XML of ini files etc Rich UI Java – IBM Websphere 45% faster! CFMX on Linux needs Redhat 7.2 on solid hardware/uptodate drivers 11/27/2018 TeraTech

Problems 2 major security problems in CFLOGIN with timeout and roles 2 problems with CFC’s in shared scopes re cached pagecontext Issues with Linux versions to do with hardware CF MX Update 2 due out soon The cfc bugs both relate to the fact that a persistent cfc is caching the "pagecontext" from where it was originally called...... ie it doesn't "see" the new pagecontext from which it is subsequently being invoked. According to Mike Nimer (and he ought to know),(see last slide on page 384 of the devcon book) there are 2 known problems with CFC's, if you put them in scopes (like session. or application.) a) any output you generate doesn't find its way to the browser b) if you put a CFC into a shared scope, then on subsequent uses of that CFC, the CFC cannot see other scoped variables (eg your application vars or your sessions vars, probably not even the request vars) The 1st issue looks easily avoidable---- if you don't use CFC's to generate HTML, then you won't care. Since the recommendation is NOT to generate output in a CFC, this isn't such a big deal. The 2nd issue is very serious-- it pretty much invalidates the idea of putting a CFC into a scope to persist it across future page requests....... unless you're willing to get into the really ugly coding workarounds. This issue is discussed here in detail, including suggested workarounds http://webforums.macromedia.com/coldfusion/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=386634 note: I am trying hard NOT to use the phrase "persistent CFC's" or putting your CFC's into "persistent scopes". The word "persistence" as it applies to objects means something entirely different in the java community and I object to Macromedia muddying the waters by using the word "persistent" for CFC's, just because you put them into the application scope or session scope. The 2 bugs in the new CFSecurity module are : Timeout Bug - even though you can set a timeout in the CFLogin tag, it never actually times out. If a user shuts down their browser and comes back 4 days later, they are still logged in. The other one, which is considered much more serious and will be fixed in the next updater are: If Roles change and a user logs out and then back in, they still have their old roles. I don't know if it's "new", but I couldn't find a better slide to put it in. There were lots of people inquiring as to how to run CFMX on Linux.... and apparently the newer releases of Redhat (like 7.3 or 8.0) WILL NOT WORK! Also--even though a lot of people reported problems with CFMX in their Linux environment, they were able to track much of those problems to faulty hardware and drivers..... thus the emphasis to be running on serious, supported H/W (like from Compaq). 11/27/2018 TeraTech

More problems Internet weather affects audio on Flash video demo Bugs in Apache Axis affect web services compatibility .NET and CF in Update 3 11/27/2018 TeraTech

Dreamweaver MX Nested templated cool – protect areas and auto update Great integration with Flash and Fireworks Cool simple CF code tools Much better design view Extensible DW MX slow, large memory use 11/27/2018 TeraTech

More Dreamweaver MX missing some CF Studio Features – keyboard shortcuts for snippets, query analyzer, search and replace – RE not as good, only for projects Only VSS version control (not SCC compatible) No directory tool, true RDS have to set up sites, project deployment DWQ synchronize all files Help not F1 – Shift F1 or Control F1 DW MX vision and Birds of Feather 11/27/2018 TeraTech

Community Resources House of Fusion Community Suite – speakers, 110 book auction, DSL, webcast using Flash Communication server User Group Community Connection – T1s and Speakers, book authors 11/27/2018 TeraTech

Expo Video compression for Flash Macromedia Press and New Riders merger CMSs – Paperthin, Ektron, SiteExec Firefly – Flash data components Tech Support Zone Reportmill java reporting Karaoke night CFDJ Awards Webtrends DW extensions IBM, Apple, Sun Firefly - Think of it like VB for Flash---- drag and drop data-aware components that can really speed up building applications. You fill out lots of property sheets, instead of typing lots of Flash code. I thought it looked really neat. But I'm concerned what happens when you need to do more than these components do out-of-the-box. It wasn't clear to me how extensible they were. Anyhow--- Macromedia had better be taking a look at what these guys did. It looked to me that they're way ahead of what Macromedia is offering with the data-grid in the DRK. 11/27/2018 TeraTech

DevCon Blogs http://www.corfield.org/blog/ http://bilbo.macromedia.com/devconblog/blogitems.cfm http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/ http://vvmx.blogspot.com/ (Video) 11/27/2018 TeraTech

Real Life Per CPU pricing on CFMX/Java and tools Pushing Rich Client UI Pushing Studio MX Blue Dragon seen as competition to CF MX Unicode – Japanese DevCon already bigger than US DevCon Macromedia R&D – 30% of revenue! 11/27/2018 TeraTech

Next Year DevCon Next year in San Diego Convention Center 7-10 Sept 2003 www.macromedia.com/go/devcon2003/ CFUN-03 in Washington DC area 21-22 June 2003 www.cfconf.org/cfun-03/ 11/27/2018 TeraTech