Yay, booked my ticket to MXDU! There won’t be as large a Perth con­tin­gent as there has been the last two years, but it’ll still be great. Lots of cool stuff going on. Some inter­est­ing top­ics on the agenda — … Con­tinue read­ing →

The final ses­sion at MXDU was a big Q & A ses­sion. At one point I wasn’t sure if the stage would hold enough chairs, but they did man­age to squeeze all the pan­elists on. A whole range of ques­tions … Con­tinue read­ing →

This was what every­one was wait­ing for — well I was any­way — the Flex and Black­stone Tech­nol­ogy Pre­views. Both tech­nolo­gies look amaz­ing and both Tim Bun­tel and Ben Elmore man­aged once again to not really give any­thing away — … Con­tinue read­ing →

“Bring it all together: Inte­grat­ing the Macro­me­dia Uni­verse” was today’s first ses­sion, with the guys from Tourism Queens­land talk­ing about their work on BestRates — appar­ently they’re releas­ing the frame­work code they cre­ated soon on mossy­blog so I’ll be look­ing … Con­tinue read­ing →

Ben Elmore and Tim Bun­tel on Black­stone and Flex left a huge pool of drool on the floor under the CF and Flash devel­op­ers in the room. Don’t show me cfform tags gen­er­at­ing Flash forms and then tell me I … Con­tinue read­ing →

Inte­grat­ing Java with CFMX, pre­sented by Daemon’s Bren­dan Sis­son, was an overview of the basics of using Java classes in CF code. Very inter­est­ing, par­tic­u­larly the zip func­tion­al­ity, I can see lots of uses for that. One of the exam­ples … Con­tinue read­ing →