CFUnited 07 – Using MVC with Flex and ColdFusion

Hello World,

This is one of those sessions that may not be as fun as some of the others but is necessary for me to wrap my head around using MVC and Cairngorm in Flex. My Flex projects are getting larger and more complex. So here I am attending …

Using MVC with Flex and ColdFusion

with Thomas Burleson

Information about this presentation will be available on the UniversalMinds blog (http://blog.universalmind.com/)

• Simliarities between the MVC inColdFusion and Flex 2.
• Took a look at the MVC pattern in Mach-ii.
• Took a look at the MVC framework in Cairngorm.
• Model – contains your business data.
• View – display data and provides user interaction.
• Controller – listens for, processes, and dispatches events.
• How is this done in Mach-ii?
  • Model – contains the business data and manages the relationships between your data objects.
  • View – *cfm pages access data from the request scope and announces event using GET/POST.
  • Controller – Contains your registered event listeners and controls your views.
• Explored the differences between an MVC pattern in ColdFusion and in Flex.

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CFUnited 07 – Advanced Styling and Skinning in Flex 2

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Now this is the really fun session, full of bells and whistles. Welcome to …

Advanced Styling and Skinning in Flex 2
with Rob Rusher

• This was the first session I’ve attended that gave away products – swag rules!
• Flex 3 has several ways to apply styles, including inline, local, external, AS3, and Themes.
• It was unfortunate that the slides were very blurry. This was not the fault of the presenter but the projector being used in that ballroom.
• Adobe is planning to have one or more of the Flex Explorers built into Flex Builder 3.
• You can skinany of the Flex components using graphics (jpg, gif, swf, etc) or using Actionscript 3.
• This presentation will be available at http://www.effectiveui.com and click on Presentations.
• You can embed fonts by specifying the unicodeRange of using FlashType
• A few more examples later and the presentation was over. He gave away three boxer shorts and a training class at their office in Colorado (ski country).

On to my last session for the day

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CFUnited 07 – ColdFusion 8: Flex 3 & Apollo (AIR) …

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Here I am at what I like to call the “bleeding edge” session. This presentation may be the “blockbuster” session of the entire conference. It is …

ColdFusion 8: Flex 3 & Apollo (AIR) (The Future of Adobe Development)

with Matt Chotin

• It started off a bit slow as he gave some background on Flex and AIR (it will always be Apollo to me).
• Matt opened up the flor to questions very early on. He is a man of few slides.
• The roadmap for “AIR Lite” (mobile) is still TBA. They first need to get the latest AVM down to a size that can be hosted on mobile devices.
• There are plans to have PDF support in AIR.
• Will we see PDF support in Flex? In the short term no … in the future … who knows!?
• What is SQL Lite? It’s an open source database with a small footprint that is used by AIR to provide local database support.
• The Flex teams expects to have the stand-alone Flex Builder 3 built upon Eclipse 3.3. By the way, Eclipse 3.3 should be released next week. (http://www.eclipse.org/)
• Support for auto-run applications from CDs and/or thumb drives is on the Adobe roadmap but will not be present in version 1.o.
• Flash Player 10!? We are still trying to convince our clients that Flash Player 9. It’s still a future vision.
• Stop throwing the Yahoo/Google toolbar in with the Flash Player download! It’s only offered if you visit the Adobe site to download the player.
• He showed a rather simple but cool AIR app built using Flex. You can find and download the app here (http://www.tweet-r.com/).
• You should be able to communicate with AIR applications using CF8 Event Gateways.
• Can an AIR application be installed onto a Thumb Drive? Matt was unable to answer the question. Give me a few minutes and I’ll tell ya. I love a challenge.
• Time passes when your having fun. The presentation was over before we knew it.

Ciao,

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