1. Michael Smith MDCFUG michael@teratech.com
MAX 2004 Report
Michael Smith MDCFUG
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2. Introduction Five conferences: CF_Underground VI MiniMAX
Community College
MAX 2004
Community Suite
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3. CF_Underground V Kai König CF and Flex Hal Helms XP exposed
Shlomy Gantz Project Management Michael Smith Personas for better apps.
Bogdan Ripa Securing shopping carts
Simon Horwith In-depth Architecture
CF_Panel
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4. MiniMAX New Orleans User Group event Held at LSU medical center
6 speakers in 2 hours
Simon Horwith - SVG graphics in CF
Michael Smith - Project Management
Tom Green – video in Flash
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5. Community College
Help MMUG managers and Team Macromedia to work better
Speaker coach
New product info
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6. Community Suite Run by Michael and Judith Dinowitz of House Of Fusion
Speakers included Ray Camden and Hal Helms
100s of books to browse (and buy at auction)
Xbox games, food and rest from MAX
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7. MAX 2004 Keynote Blackstone is cool
Breeze for both live and recorded presentations
Captivate (RoboDemo) for training and quiz's.
Contribute 3 as a CMS - web services based notification
Mobile is going to be bigger than web – billing ok too!
FlashCast CDK
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8. More general info 2100 attendees, 70% CF
More than 80% of sessions on non CF subjects
Special event at Mardi Gras World
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9. CF 7 “Blackstone” “CF 7” Blackstone beta given out to all attendees
Reporting and printed output to FlashPaper and PDF
Better graphing
CFREPORT tag and banded report writer
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10. CF 7 “Blackstone” Verity search in search, spelling suggestions
Source code protection
Flash components – grids and forms – can bind Flash variables
Easy Gateway messaging – IM, SMS, a-sync CF calls
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11. Flash 8 "Maelstrom" Alpha channel
Much faster graphics (bitmap caching)
New text rendering engine (Saffron). Precise control over anti-aliasing.
New Flash Video codec – higher quality
Add drop shadow to movie clips
Blend the clips with background bitmaps
Stroke drawing improved (corner properties and gradients)
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12. Sneaks! Dreamweaver Get the updater! (Fixes bugs…)
Vertical toolbar from HomeSite is back.
XSL creation is much easier than before.
Bind an XML data source - drag/drop data fields into the page and have Dreamweaver automatically handle the XSL transformation
Code collapse...long time coming (back).
A zoom tool...allowing you to visually zoom in on a particularly problematic table layout in design view
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13. Sneaks! Captivate Smart records screen changes
Auto add balloon comments based on commands you click on.
Records your audio at the same time as you record your screen captures
After the recording is done, you can still adjust the audio/slide timing as well as insert silence if necessary.
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14. Sneaks! Support Center www.macromedia.com/go/knowledge
Focus has been on solving problems finding content in the Macromedia website.
RSS feeds have been added
Improved search, allowing you to target particular products or types of content you're looking for.
Also has a side pod containing "Best Bets" that are usually the answer you're looking for. "Search within" is also supported.
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15. Central
AOL AIM support
Better UI
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16. Flex 1.5 Free development and non-profit version
Tag language for dynamic Flash generation
MXML and action script
The charting is cool. Spin your pie charts just for fun! Automatically reformatting lables.
Drag-select data in a datagrid and have it automatically plot on a chart right next to the data.
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17. More Flex
ThresholdRenderer - would be great for a real-time data feed where you're looking for data exceeding some limit value.
Gantt charting
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18. Sneaks! Mobile Flash
Runs on mobile phones in Japan, Europe and now US (T-Mobile)
1.4 Billion potential users (compare to 800 million for web)
Basically Flash 4
Good testing tools – simulate phone on PC.
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19. More Sneak peeks
Dreamweaver: They showed new code hinting for ASPX and C#
Flex:. Eclipse plugins, and the Brady visual environment.
ColdFusion: rewritten cfgrid/form tags using Flash. You could even use Flex things like tabs and accordion navigation - all from within CF.
Breeze Live: Conference call calls you as opposed to you calling into the conference call
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20. Community Resources
User Group Community Pit – T1s and Speakers, book authors
Wireless access
Macromedia press book store
CFDJ radio
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21. MAX Blogs http://maxbloggers.com/ http://www.corfield.org/blog/
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22. Next Year MAX next year “somewhere on West Coast” October 2005
CFUN-05 in Washington DC area
29 June – 1 July 2005
MAX next year “somewhere on West Coast”
October 2005
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