June 29 2007 by
Andrew Powell
I am downloading the new Apatana right now, as we speak. If you are coming to my session at CFUnited tomorrow morning (9:45AM, Room F), I will be showcasing it and its Spry support.
Download it at http://www.aptana.org/
Posted in General | Conferences | Eclipse | Spry | AJAX | 
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June 27 2007 by
Andrew Powell
Thank you to everyone who came to my session today on using Spry & ColdFusion. I have been giving this presentation now since January and think I have it fairly well refined, but there is always room for improvement.
I was made aware that my slides are not in the conference book, so I am including them in the zip file here.
If you didn't make the presentation today, but would still like to learn more about Spry & ColdFusion, I am giving a repeat session on Saturday at 9:45AM.
If you did see the presentation, and want to know more, please come by and see me at the Universal Mind booth in the exhibit hall.
Number one on my schedule tomorrow is fellow UM consultant Thomas Burleson's talk on continuous testing. He has a nifty new tool he will be debuting that will help keep your test shells in sync with your code. Being a big fan of TDD, I will not want to miss this.
One last note: Universal Mind has developed a curriculum for Spry training. If you are interested, please come see me at the Universal Mind booth and we will work on getting you locked in for a training session.
BTW, big thanks to the ColdFusion team for helping me get one of my demos working!
Posted in ColdFusion | General | Conferences | Spry | Test-Driven Development | Adobe | Speaking | AJAX | Training | 0 comments
June 25 2007 by
Andrew Powell
Are you afraid that your ColdFusion skills will be marginalized by AIR & Flex? Do you want to know how these technologies can help you as a ColdFusion developer?
Come to this BOF Wednesday (hosted by me), and we will address these questions and any others you may have. Hopefully you will leave with the mindset that AIR & Flex are your friends, not your enemies.
Posted in Flex | Conferences | Adobe | Air | 1 comments
June 19 2007 by
Andrew Powell
In the past few years, we've seen an pop culture explosion in the form of the iPod. The iPod (in all its forms), however, spawned a marketing/psychology phenomenon known as a "halo effect". Basically the halo effect is when, in this case, the positive impression of the iPod has filtered through to the rest of the Apple brand. This includes computers, software, etc. Anything branded Apple.
Aside: Apple has further changed their image to be "Apple, Inc." and not "Apple Computer, Inc.".
How does this apply to Adobe? Well, let's consider the following:
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Posted in ColdFusion | Flex | Apple | General | Adobe | Air | 3 comments
June 15 2007 by
Andrew Powell
Core J2EE Patterns From Sun.
This is another of the "for my own reference posts." The Core J2EE Patterns are used throughout a ton of ColdFusion frameworks (ColdSpring, Transfer, M2, etc.). It's a good idea to know these when building enterprise ColdFusion or Flex/AIR applications.
Some commonly used patterns in the RIA Space:
- Front Controller
- Transfer Object
- Data Access Object
- Value Object
- Session Facade
- Service Locator
Posted in ColdFusion | Flex | General | ColdSpring | Adobe | Mach-II | 0 comments