SOTR – Day 1
A brief overview of what i’ve learnt / taken away from day one of Scotch on the Rocks.
Adobe Keynote – Terry Ryan
The keynote for me was very interesting, Terry Ryan gave a brief overview of new bits and pieces of ColdFusion 9 including ORM which i think i definately need to look into and learn. He also mentioned things about ColdFusion 9.0.1, such things as fuller cfscript support and also mentioned a ‘top secret’ development, Amazon S3 support, which could be extremely handy!
Mastering the ColdFusion Application Framework – Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel never ceases to amaze me. His blog always comes up with a solution when i google for some help and he delivers yet again. Ben went through many of the common issues of the application.cfc file usage, as well as pointing out solutions to application.cfc issues. Cant wait to read his blog posts / get hold of his examples!
A whistlestop tour of HTML5 and CSS3 – Chris Mills
Chris Mills from Opera gave a really great presentation of the upcoming changes in the web development world in regard to HTML5 and CSS3. He expanded on what i already new about the new canvas / video / audio tags as well as explained the changes to the semantics of the html4 documents such as the new header, footer, nav tags etc.
How Catalyst Will Transform The ColdFusion Developer – Terry Ryan
Again Terry Ryan gave a great presentation on the the Adobe Catalyst product, sadly i dont think this is something that will ever affect me but was interesting to see the work flows between design, catalyst, flex/flash builder etc. As well as his ‘Apptastic’ ColdFusion Builder extension, which makes generating a skeleton app from just a datasource!
The Art of Emotional Design: A story of pleasure, joy, and delight – Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan has presentations down to a pat. What a great presentation it was as well! He started off by talking about his infamous ‘ColdFusion is dead‘ blog post and explaining his reasons for it. I’m sure this was well received within the community. He then went on to explain the reasonings for user friendly design, putting the user first and lots of other ‘delighters’.
Supercharge your ColdFusionBuilder – Ray Camden
Again, Ray Camdens blog has also been of great help to myself during my learning, and even Ray himself has been kind enough to point me in the right direction on a few occasions! His presentation was mainly to do with Snippets and Extensions within ColdFusionBuilder. It was great being shown examples of extensions, being told the pitfalls that CFBuilder has, oddities, features, what to do, what not to do etc. Great! Must use ColdFusion builder more!