CFUnited Day 4

Getting so very tired. My flight's in another 7 hours, can't wait to get home and crash. While packing up my stuff this morning, I really wish I brought a large suitcase. I acquired so much swag, I now will have to check another backpack.

Flex 2 for ColdFusion Developers (Jeff Tapper)

This session was good enough the first time that I decided to repeat it. RemoteClass in Flex must match the cfcomponent's alias attribute

Integrating ColdFusion and Spry (Andrew Powell)

Spry = AJAX framework
ServiceCapture "the single best tool for developing web applications"
can filter non/destructively, sort
Spry has state awareness (loading/error/ready)
Can use a regular expression and conditionally display different content
CF can... Generate XML and JSON content, be an application proxy, create and populate widgets.
SQL Server can generate queries in XML (add "FOR XML AUTO" to the end of the SQL query), but there is not root tag, use sqlXMLToCFXML() (on cflib) to convert it
Can auto reload data on an interval (dashboards, stock ticker)
Do not use Spry if
-you need the back button, it breaks it
-need to bookmark specific points or deep linking
-server can't handle the extra load
New in CF8
-CF8 has strong focus on AJAX
-De/serialize JSON
-cfsprydataset, create a Spry-enabled page without writing a line of JS

ColdFusion and LiveCycle Integration (Tom Jordahl)

I've been bamboozled! This was supposed to be Flex Data Services, not LiveCycle. Tom was wired, he drank a 16oz can of Monster energy drink before speaking, so he was all over the place. I had no clue what LiveCycle is in advanced and the session was geared for people that do. Well a while into the session, I realized that apparently Flex Data Services IS LiveCycle Data Services, I didn't catch when the name was changed. The examples shown were neat, like a chat-esque application that can take in messages from the Flex app or a ColdFusion page, neat. It requires access to the CF administrator to set up the event gateways needed for the CF side. But with CF8 having the whole admin available through an API, and being able to make multiple admin accounts, this shouldn't be a problem. I certainly hope Crystal Tech upgrades to CF8 soon after it's released.

Advanced CFEclipse (Mark Drew)

Dreamweaver for noobs to heroes
HomeSite for heroes
CFEclipse for heroes to gurus
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