Adobe announced yesterday the launch of ColdFusion 8. Next week’s meeting will be a launch event to mark the occasion. Here’s what’s in store:
- We’ll watch a CF8 Deep Dive recorded specially for Adobe user groups by Ben Forta, Senior Technical Evangelist for Adobe.
- Prizes prizes prizes! One lucky person will win a copy of ColdFusion 8 Standard, valued at US $1299! We’ll also be raffling off a free admission to the FITC Winnipeg Roadshow, courtesy of FITC. And, there will be other little goodies to give away.
- Pizza and soft drinks will be provided.
The meeting is on Thursday, August 9, at 7:00 p.m., room W411, Red River College, Princess Street campus. If you can make it, please let me know by emailing me at darren@flashinthepeg.org so I can make sure there are enough refreshments for everyone.
I hope to see you next Thursday!
If you’re working in or interested in Adobe AIR, there’s a free e-book available that you might find helpful: Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide. You can read the book on-line, or download a pdf version.
Our next meeting is set for Thursday, August 9, and is going to be all about ColdFusion 8! The meeting will feature a presentation recorded by Ben Forta, Adobe’s Senior Technical Evangelist. Whether you’re new to ColdFusion or have already tried out the public betas on Adobe Labs, I think you’ll find this an interesting meeting!
The meeting will be held on Thursday, August 9 at 7:00 p.m. in our usual room W411 of Red River College, Princess Street campus.
More info to come, so stay tuned!
If you’re planning to attend MAX in Chicago this year, the deadline for early bird registration is July 23rd. If you register before then, you can save up to $400 off the registration price. There is also an early bird discount for the pre-event training sessions.
Here are the prices (in USD) and deadlines for conference registration:
- $1,095 Early Bird discount, must be purchased on or before July 23, 2007
- $1,295 Regular pricing if purchased July 24 - September 21, 2007
- $1,495 If purchased onsite September 22 - October 3, 2007
One- or two-day passes are also available.
Also, if your company is thinking of sending more than one person to MAX, Adobe is offering a 3-for-2 group discount.
More info can be found at the MAX 2007 website.
This year’s FITC Winnipeg Roadshow will be a two-day event, to be held on November 16 and 17. On the 16th there will be pre-event workshops, while on the 17th there will be two tracks of presentations (similar to last year’s Roadshow), followed by an evening mixer. You can find more information at the FITC Winnipeg Roadshow site. They’ve recently added a couple more speakers for the 17th, and will be announcing more as we get closer to the event, so keep checking that site for more details.
FITC has been kind enough to offer a 10% discount to members of Flash in the Peg! Use the code ‘Flashinthepeg775′ when you order your tickets via their on-line store. The discount applies only to the festival ticket for the 17th - the presentations and the mixer - not to the workshops.
And don’t forget that we’ll be raffling off a free admission to the FITC Winnipeg Roadshow at every Flash in the Peg meeting from now until November!
I’ll pass on more info as I get it, but if you have any questions about the event, please let me know.
Hope you’re all having a great summer! My apologies for the long period of
radio silence, but the last month or so has been kind of hectic around
these parts, to say the least.
Now that things are settling down, I just wanted to drop a quick note to
update you all on a few things:
- Topics for upcoming meetings. I thought I’d give you an idea of what
some of the next meetings will look at:
- Introduction to Ajax. What’s Ajax and what can it do for you? We’ll look
at the basic concepts behind Ajax, then take a look at Adobe’s Spry
framework for Ajax, and how that’s been integrated into Dreamweaver CS3.
- Prototyping in Fireworks. Fireworks CS3 has some nifty new features that
make developing web site prototypes much, much easier. We’ll walk through
how Photoshop and Fireworks work together at the mockup stage, and how
Fireworks can be used to develop wireframes and walkthroughs of a proposed
web site.
- Flash Lite primer. Flash Lite is a version of Flash optimized for mobile
devices. I’ll show you what the current Flash Lite environment looks like
and what’s involved in developing in Flash Lite.
For other meeting topics, there has been some interest in a general Flash
primer. I think this is a great idea, and would definitely love to put
something together for a future meeting. But I’d like to target it at the
broadest range of people, so if you’re interested in this topic, please
email me privately and let me know what you’d like this meeting to cover.
Are you brand new to Flash and would like to learn the basic principles?
Have you got your feet wet and would like to start moving toward the
deeper end of the pool?
Any other ideas? What would you like to learn about/discuss?
- Our next meeting. A couple people have expressed a preference for a
summer meeting hiatus, and a couple others have been curious about when
our next meeting will be held. Given how short our summers can be, what
are your thoughts on holding a meeting at some point in the next month or
so?
(As of about September, I plan to establish a regular, predictable
schedule for meetings. If you have a preference for when that would be –
earlier in the month? later? – let me know!)
- Software raffle. Twice per year, Adobe provides software for the group
to raffle off. The winner gets to choose the software package of their
choice, valued at up to $2100 (USD - practically the same thing at $2100
Cdn these days!). I’m working up the rules for how the raffle for the
second half of this year will work, and will post them in the next week or
so, but to give you some advance warning: one way of earning extra raffle
‘tickets’ will be if you make a presentation to the group. So if there’s
something that you’d like to present, send me an email!
- Discussion list/forum. I’m exploring alternatives for setting up a
web-based forum. The flashinthepeg.org blog uses Wordpress, and they also
make forum software. It looks pretty slick and integrates nicely with
Wordpress, so at some point in the next week or so, I’ll try installing
that, so people can give it a try and see if it’s something they’d like to
use.
If folks would rather have something email-based, I could create a
separate email list to be used for general discussion, and reserve this
list for announcements only. How do people feel about having to subscribe
to multiple lists?
