CFUnited 07 - ColdFusion 8 & LiveCycle Data Services

Hello World,

The break is over and it’s time to get back to today’s sessions. The focus of this presentation covers a topic that I have very little experience or knowledge. My next CFUnited session is …

ColdFusion 8 & LiveCycle Data Services

Tom Jordahl -

LiveCycle Data Services is now integrated into ColdFusion 8. No need to have a separated server (J2EE) running.

There are three main category of services in LiveCycle - RPC, Messaging, and Data Management.

He showed an example of sending a message from a Flex application using <mx:Consumer> and <mx:Producer>

Flex Data Maagement allows you to manage distributed data in Flex applications including data replication, synchronization, and occasionally connected clients.

Change objects are used to identify modifications to data records. ColdFusion can inspect this object and act upon it accordingly.

He showed us a Flex wizard that automatically created the CFCs used to synchronize the data and then showed a Flex CRM app that demonstrated some conflict resolution examples. This is really cool stuff!
Sorry I don’t hae more to share with you. I lost my wireless connection during the presentation. Now I’m off to my next session.

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CFUnited 07 - Dynamic Image Processing

Hello World,

I feel that this is one of the more exciting new features on CF8. So couldn’t wait to see what examples Ray had in store for us in his presentation …

ColdFusion 8: Dynamic Image Processing

Ray Camden - Email: ray@camdenfamily.com - Blog: http://www.coldfusionjedi.com

He says that his blog has articles on LOST! I love him already.

How do we perform image manipulation now (pre CF8)? Alagad, ImagesCFC, and LylaCaptcha.

Now with CF8 we can work with images as a data type. New functions will allow us to Read, Write, Convert, Draw, Filter, Watermark, and more.

Many image types are supported including, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, etc. Animated GIF is NOT supported.

Love the Star Trek references in his examples. Long Live Trek!

You can dynamically create Captcha images. By the way CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart … in case you really wanted to know.

He demonstrated that adding a border will add the border to the margin of the image thus increasing the size and not to the inside of the image.

Was getting really, really hungry. Need … food … now.

See ya after the lunch break.

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CFUnited 07 - ColdFusion 8: Going Beyond Paper with PDF …

Hello World,

Well, this is the first of many sessions at Day One of CFUnited 07. I will do my best to give you a few of the highlights of the sessions that I am attending throughout the conference. So … Let’s go to the show!

Adobe ColdFusion 8

Going Beyond Paper with PDF Forms and Documents

Speaker: Dean Harmon -

Although <cfdocument> existed in CF, it has been greatly enhanced in CF8 such as;

• Dynamic headers and footers
• Embed existing PDF forms

He showed us an example of a pre-populated PDFForm (containing a Submit button).

LiveCycle Forms Server is required for more advanced PDF forms creation and manipulation.

The <cfpdf> tags give us a lot of very powerful PDF manipulation features, such as adding watermarks and merging.

He showed us an example of creating PDF thumbnails. It took about 58 seconds to process. This is clearly not something you would want to perform with every request.

The <cfprint> tag allows you to do server-side printing. It only allows you to print PDFs.

The URL to the DDX documentation can be found here: http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/livecycle/es/ (under the Develop tab).

The session ended a bit early which allows me to catch up on email. Fortunatly the next seesion I am to attend is in the same room. See ya in 30.

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