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Are you a JavaScript, or jQuery developer and want to find out more about Adobe AIR? Are you interested in building desktop applications, but don't know how to get started? Then you should definitely check out the free presentation I'll be giving to the Boston ColdFusion User Group on July 21st at 6:30 ET.
Do you live in, or around, Manhattan and are interested in learning more about desktop and mobile application development? Then you're in luck. I'll be speaking to the New York ColdFusion User Group (NYCFUG) on June 8th at 6:30 at the New York Medical Center. I'll walk you through the steps to write applications that can be deployed to the web, desktop, and mobile devices from a single codebase. Learn the basics of jQuery, AIR, and Phonegap. Use existing skills in jQuery, HTML/JS/CSS, AIR, and ColdFusion, to compile applications that can truly be used anywhere.
I've just confirmed that I'll be presenting in person to NYCFUG, the New York ColdFusion User Group on June 8th. That in and of itself is exciting as it has some top notch members. Even better than that is that I'll be presenting IN PERSON! That's right...I'm coming all the way from Nashville, TN to the big city to talk about one of my favorite topics in programming these days...Adobe AIR.
As you may know, Adobe has public betas for ColdFusion Builder, and AIR 2.0. Both of these toolsets will really advance the development of Rich Internet Applications: for Flex, for Flash, or for standards compliant HTML and Javascript. One thing that it looks like neither will ship with, however, is support for jQuery 1.4, released on January 14, 2010. jQuery is arguably one of the the biggest players, if not THE biggest, in the burgeoning JavaScript framework renaissance of the last 3 years.
A month or two ago I noticed a twitter friend of mine, and respected designer, Dee Sadler talking about a new conference she was planning. She's based in Kansas City, and having found out how active their development and design user groups are, I was intrigued. This Designer/Developer workflow conference sounded awesome. It wasn't just for developers, they wanted to target designers as well. Having started my career as a designer I decided to submit a topic. I just found out that I was accepted to speak! I'll be presenting a workflow topic covering how to build AIR applications with jQuery and ColdFusion. If you're in the midwest and you're looking to learn a wide range of topics, come check it out.
On January 20th I gave a presentation to the Bay Area ColdFusion User Group (BACFUG) on Building AIR Applications with ColdFusion and jQuery. It went well, with about 30 or 40 people in attendance, both live and via Acrobat Connect. I just wanted to take a moment to post my code samples, as well as a link to watch the recorded presentation. Hope you enjoy, and don't forget to check out some of my other AIR posts.
On January 20th I gave a presentation to the Bay Area ColdFusion User Group (BACFUG) on jQuery 101, an intro to jQuery. It went well, with about 30 or 40 people in attendance, both live and via Acrobat Connect. I just wanted to take a moment to post my code samples, as well as a link to watch the recorded presentation. Hope you enjoy, and don't forget to check out some of my other jQuery posts.
Way back in May, at cf.Objective(), I met a great guy named Sid. He shared with me that he was involved in the Bay Area ColdFusion User Group way out in the country of California. Sid told me that he was impressed with my jQuery presentation and asked if I would be interested in speaking to BACFUG. Fast forward 7 months and it seems that they've finally been forced to make good on their offer and let me speak. I'm sure it's because Sean Corfield can't be bothered to make the drive into the Adobe offices, but who am I to complain. (yes, I'm just kidding).
When it comes to AIR application development, those of us using JavaScript are second class citizens. It's unfortunate, but true. Functionality easily available in Flash or Flex is either missing, or difficult to find (and use) in our apps. One such piece of functionality is the ability to capture screen shots, or bitmap data, for use in other parts of your app. In this post, I'll show you how you too can capture bitmap data using JavaScript, and a sprinkling of AS3.
Thanks to everyone at CFinNC who came out to my sessions on Saturday morning. There were some technical snafus, but overall I was very pleased with the results. I hope you enjoyed yourselves, and maybe picked up a thing or two. Without further ado, here are the files from this morning's presentations.
The next 2 weekends are going to be super busy here in Nashville. Or maybe I should say busy for me in general as I'll be going out of town for both of them.
Registration for CFinNC is now open! CFinNC is a free web development conference held in Raleigh, North Carolina during the weekend of October 17th and 18th with an International line-up of speakers presenting on timely and relevant topics on web development. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors and the creativity of the planning committee, registration for the event will be free and includes entry to the weekend event and to all presentations.
I've had this collection of links in my inbox for a while so I thought I'd blog them. Mostly for me, so that I don't lose them, but also for you, the reader, in hopes that you also benefit from other people's work.
My October just got a little more interesting this year! I was just accepted to speak at the ColdFusion Community's newest Conference, CFinNC. Located in Raleigh, North Carolina, CFinNC is a conference focused on "bringing the awesomeness of the Adobe platform to developers everywhere".
I pitched, I prepared, I traveled, and I presented. My first CFUnited session was presented in what I would consider a successful manner. There were about 2 dozen people there to hear me present on jQuery & AIR. I covered creating a new Aptana AIR project, designing the interface in Adobe Fireworks, coding up the CSS, HTML, and jQuery in Aptana, and finally the ColdFusion component in CFEclipse. Most of the attendees also stuck around to discuss packaging and exporting of AIR apps.
You might already know that CFUnited starts tomorrow. Heck, if you don't, then you've probably been living under a rock for the last week or two. Regardless, if you're here, and you like jQuery, AIR, and building fun applications, then you owe it to yourself to come check out my presentation tomorrow (the 12th) at 2:45. I'll be building a BlogCFC monitor in front of a crowd of attendees hoping for a train wreck on stage. I'll do my best to disappointment them, but you'll have to come yourself to find out if I succeed.
The time has come. Developers all over the world begin their preparations for travel to our nation's capitol for a veritable summit of ColdFusion, and web related topics. Men and women will arrive in Washington D.C. by plane, by bus, by car, and will converge on the Landsowne Resort for 4 days of intense learning, networking, and fun at CFUnited 2009.
Last week Jason Dean had a great idea. Todd Rafferty had been asking him about developing AIR applications using HTML / JS (along with jQuery). Jason decided to create an Adobe Connect session and work alongside with Todd to show him the ropes. Since Jason and I have talked about AIR and jQuery quite a bit, he also invited me. Finally we ALL know how enamored Ben Nadel is with jQuery so he was invited too.
I'm stoked! It's finally official...I'll be speaking at the CFUnited 2009, the premier ColdFusion conference in the world. My session topic will be Design to Deployment: Create a jQuery/AIR/ColdFusion powered BlogCFC Monitor in 1 hour. The title says it all. I'm going to be designing, developing, and deploying a Blog CFC monitor in the 50 or so minutes I have available to me. If you're attending CFUnited and learning about developing HTML/JavaScript based AIR applications, come check out my session. I guarantee you'll learn a lot, and it certainly won't be boring.
Most AIR application developers put lots of time and effort into the functionality of an app. It does lots of things, it slices, it dices, it juliennes. The problem is that, like many websites, those same developers don't put much time into, or even give much thought to, the interface. The AIR SDK provides a lot of power to developers when designing the look and feel of an app. In this article I'm going to show you how easy it can be to design, and use, transparency and custom buttons in your AIR application. Let's get started, but first, as always, here's a link to download the entire Aptana project. Oh, and here's what you'll need to follow along.
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