Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone IV

by kai on 08/09/2004

After cake, sweets, fruits and tons of coffee... - Printing and Reporting: always a mess to define proper print output and to define reporting formats. - Blackstone solution: * CFDOCUMENT with attribute format="pdf" creates a pdf file. * Embedding CFLOOP in a CFDOCUMENT wrapper works, also with dynamic data inside * CFDOCUMENTITEM with type="header" or type="footer" etc. helps layouting…

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone III

by kai on 08/09/2004

Continuing with the form stuff: - Since CF 2 the product provided nice tags like CFTREE, CFGRID etc. which had been realised as Java applets with all the pros and cons of that technology. - Blackstone solution: The approach is using the Flash technology as a frontend. That means for example that CFGRID received a new attribute format="flash" which produces a Flash based GRID. By just reviewing…

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Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone II

by kai on 08/09/2004

Let me just express that I'm deeply impressed by the travel of Oğuz Demirkapı, User Group Manager of CFUG Turkey who travelled over to Cologne for seeing Ben speaking about Blackstone.

That's what I call a CF_GROUPIE ;)

Live blogging about Ben on Blackstone I

by kai on 08/09/2004

Today Ben Forta speaks about Blackstone over here in Cologne, Germany. This entry is updated regularly during his session... - An interesting observation: over 50% of the attendants are using CF MX or higher already. There were just one or two people just running on CF 4.something. - Did you know that CF was backwards compatible to DBML up to including CF 5? To clear that up: DBML was the first…

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MXDU 2005

by kai on 07/09/2004

MXDU - the best and most fun Macromedia-related developers conference of the world - will happen again in 2005 as Geoff Bowers sent around emails last weekend using the mxdu-ann mailing list. The dates are Feb 17th and 18th 2005 and the venue is Sydneys Star City hotel and casino complex again. On Feb 16th there will be a pre-conferece workshop day with 1/2-day and/or full day developers and…

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MX Events

by kai on 06/09/2004

Macromedia is going to provide a series of technology events in Europe during late September and eary October. Countries visited are UK, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Germany. More information about the event is available on http://www.macromedia-seminar.com/mx-events/. The registration fee for the German event is 150 Euros including lunch etc. and you could choose between a designer and a developer track.

Registration for the Ben Forta event openend up again

by kai on 06/09/2004

Ouups, the registration page for the Ben Forta event in Cologne on September 8th shut down it's services and just presented that the event is booked out. Macromedia enhanced their room booking now ;) and there are further seats to book now...

3 Free Pocket PC Games

by kai on 02/09/2004

If you own a Windows powered Pocket PC, watch out for Pocketblasters.com. They have three free games out now which reminds me a bit to the old huge arcade machines of the 80s... Have fun!

Looking for certification exam beta testers

by kai on 02/09/2004

The certification team of Macromedia is looking for beta testers for the new upcoming Flash MX 2004 Designer Exam. If you're interested, you could register here and also leave your details for other beta exams.

If you're selected to join the beta, you'll get a 40% off discount voucher for any Macromedia certification exam.

cf-community.info

by kai on 02/09/2004

Yesterday cf-community.info went live. It's basically a webforum about all aspects of ColdFusion and related topics and driven by Nils Bettinger, the owner of CFMX Ltd. - imho Germanys best CF hoster.

The forum itself is in German and obviously not too crowded up to now, but that might change soon. Give it try, Germany ;)

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