Are you interested in learning more about Mango Blog? Finding out if it can do what you need? Want to talk about extensions, theming, etc? Or do you have other Mango-related questions or comments?
Laura Arguello, creator of Mango Blog, will be moderating a Mango BOF at CFUnited. I know I'll be there. Will you?
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May 21 2010
This year I finally worked up the courage to submit a couple of topics for CFUnited:
- FlexUnit: From Zero to… Something Greater than Zero! — A beginners guide to unit testing in Flex with FlexUnit.
- Pragmatic Version Control Using Git — An introduction to Git with a pragmatic approach.
Voting is open to the public, so if you would like to learn more about these topics, and potentially witness a grown man pee his pants, please go vote for them!
I'll be there regardless — this will be my 3rd time in the last 4 years — but it would be pretty cool to be a speaker.
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February 12 2010
I registered for CFUnited 2010 over the weekend. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend CFUnited 2009 last month, but I'll be there next year! If you're planning on going, I would encourage you to register now.
The price is as low as it's going to get: $499 for the 3-day package, and "a special gift will be also be added to each of the first 200 registered attendees" (quoted from the CFUnited newsletter).
See you there!
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September 08 2009
Having never done anything with Flex before, I hope to get a fairly basic intro — how to get started — but at the same time, see an overview of the neat stuff you can do with Flex, in order to get some inspiration to learn it. We'll see how it goes…
- Adam says that the hardest part was just getting up and getting here this early (8:30am). It should all be downhill from here.
- "Flex is just a framework for writing ActionScript."
- Rather than HTML, we use MXML (Macromedia XML Markup Language — they really though that one through!) and ActionScript.
- Can communicate via SOAP, HHTP/S, AMF/S (Flash Remoting), RTMP/S. AMF is binary, so really fast.
- Flex SDK is the compiler: command line, free.
- Flex Builder: Nice UI for Flex SDK. Professional eddition for charting, advanced data grid/OLAP, and performance profiling. Very nominally priced at $250-$700!
- LiveCycle Data Services seems like ADO.NET data management. Enables their equivalent of "disconnected mode" with offline work & re-sync when you come back online — but somehow, seems even easier!
- BlazeDS: is a free, open source product, very similar but not as full featured as LCDS. Offers real time data push to clients!
- Data Services is not required for Flex.
- Flash Remoting is baked in and has been available since CF 7.01.
- Flex uses {} as CF uses ##.
- Use <mx:RemoteObject …> to create an object that will communicate with CF.
- Flex's <mx:Application applicationComplete=""> is like HTML's <body onLoad="">
"mate" (pronounced "mah-tay") is Adam's recommended Flex Framework.
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June 20 2008