1. Michael Smith MDCFUG Tobe Goldfinger NYCFUG Sandra Clark MDCFUG
DevCon 2002 Report
Michael Smith MDCFUG
Tobe Goldfinger NYCFUG
Sandra Clark MDCFUG
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2. Introduction Three conferences: Fusebox CF_Underground IV DevCon 2002
+ Community Suite and Expo
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3. 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
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4. CF_Underground IV FLiP for the mainstream CF_Jeopardy
Project Management tips
Essential tools for CF
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5. 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?
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6. 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
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7. 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
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8. 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
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9. 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
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).
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10. More problems Internet weather affects audio on Flash video demo
Bugs in Apache Axis affect web services compatibility .NET and CF in Update 3
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11. 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
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12. 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
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13. 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
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14. 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.
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15. DevCon Blogs http://www.corfield.org/blog/
(Video)
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16. 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!
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17. Next Year DevCon Next year in San Diego Convention Center
7-10 Sept 2003
CFUN-03 in Washington DC area
21-22 June 2003
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