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Adrian Pomilio is presenting Flex and Javascript, and CSS in the DOM, CSS in my Flash and you can watch and learn for free at the CFinNC conference!

Flex and Javascript

This presentation will walk the audience through the basic ways of leveraging Javascript through Actionscript and the Flex Framework.  Showing examples of using ExternalInterface and the FABridge (Flex Ajax Bridge) and allowing participants to follow along step by step.

CSS in the DOM, CSS in my Flash

This presentation covers the basics of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and how it is used in xhtml applications as well as Flex based applications.  Participants will learn the value of CSS and how it relates to xhtml and Flex.   Participants will also learn about the differences between CSS in xhtml and Flex.

About Adrian Pomilio

My name is Adrian Pomilio and  I have been developing web-pages since 1995 and web applications since 1997. My areas of concentration are user interface development for web applications, GIS framework development, and data modeling for reporting and application functionality.  I spend a majority of my time working with Flex, Javascript, CSS, various server side languages, databases, and third party APIs. I don't proclaim to be a guru, but I do enjoy passing along my experiences to others so they don't have to spin their wheels. I spend my free time with my wife and two sons, as well as coaching lacrosse and running the Triangle User Experience (Flex User Group) in Raleigh.

About CFinNC

CFinNC, a free conference held October 17-18, 2009, presents topics by internationally known speakers on ColdFusion, Flash, Flex, AIR and general web development technologies.

Organized by the Triangle Area ColdFusion User's Group, associates, and sponsors and held on Centennial Campus at NC State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Free registration includes access to all events at CFinNC.

In this time of bad economic news and slashed training budgets, you and your team can get timely and relevant information on the world of web development. Space is limited, register today!

CFinNC, rhymes with Free!

We've just released our final schedule!

Take a look at all that awesome content, delivered by luminaries in the industry, for the low low price of free.

Pay special attention to the After Party at 7:30 on Saturday. More details will be in your registration packets Saturday!

I fielded a comment from someone this afternoon who exclaimed that CFinNC had not responded to his email. While certainly possible, (hey, conference planning is hard work) we take all communications seriously and strive to provide the best possible effort for our prospects, attendees, presenters and sponsors. We've been getting and replying to tons of emails over the last few months!

So after getting more information, it turns out the potential attendee used the contact form on http://www.cfinnc.com/page.cfm/contact-us. I immediately tested this to find that the form is broken. For some reason, all email sent from that form has gone to the undeliverable folder. Yep, all 168 of them.

Now, this is an embarrassing thing for a technical conference to somehow not get emails submitted from their own website. Even more embarrassing when it was 168 queries from the public. Sure one or two were offers for v1@gra or announcements that we'd won the European Lottery and only needed to wire $6k to collect our prize, but most of them (well over a hundred) were from good honest people who either wanted to come to CFinNC or sponsor the proceedings in some way.

So, we apologize to the everyone for the mishap. I'm going through the list now and replying to each and every communication we missed. It might be too late for the information to matter to the original sender, but it is the right thing to do.

Apologies,

--CFinNC Leadership--

Andy Matthews is presenting jQuery & AIR: Desktop Development for the Front End Designer and Design to Deployment - Building a BlogCFC Monitor in jQuery & AIR and you can watch and learn for free at the CFinNC conference! 

jQuery & AIR: Desktop Development for the Front End Designer

This session will help developers who have skills in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript leverage those abilities to build robust desktop applications using the jQuery JavaScript library and the Adobe AIR framework. The session will provide an overview of both the AIR framework, and the jQuery framework and why one might choose this deployment type over the more popular Flex/Flash method. We'll dive straight into a look at jQuery, covering several of the key areas of jQuery, along with some examples of how, and when to use them. Then we'll look at the various ways the AIR  framework allows you to interact with data including SQLite databases, file system interaction (including encryption options), accessing remote data, and more.  Finally we'll review the steps needed to package your AIR app including building in version control, and certificates.

Design to Deployment - Building a BlogCFC Monitor in jQuery & AIR

During this session you'll learn how to design, develop, and deploy a Blog CFC monitor in 50 minutes. We'll design the interface in Fireworks, export the HTML, CSS, and images into ColdFusion Builder, write up a CFC to power the app, and wire in some interface functionality using jQuery. Candidates for viewable metrics in the final app will be total comments, total unapproved comments, average time on site, and total posts. Feel free to suggest additional metrics that you think might be useful, or interesting.

About Andy Matthews

Andy Matthews is currently a Senior Web Developer for Dealerskins, Inc., anenterprise shop focusing on professional websites for the automotive space.  He manages a recipe website called Coop Cookbook; is the author of several open source ColdFusion libraries: PicasaCFC, and ShrinkURL; has published a jQuery based Adobe AIR Application, Shrinkadoo, featured in the AIR Marketplace, and is available to speak at User Groups or Conferences for the RIA crowd. Andy lives in Nashville, TN with his wife, two children, and two dogs.

About CFinNC

CFinNC, a free conference held October 17-18, 2009, presents topics by internationally known speakers on ColdFusion, Flash, Flex, AIR and general web development technologies.

Organized by the Triangle Area ColdFusion User's Group, associates, and sponsors and held on Centennial Campus at NC State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Free registration includes access to all events at CFinNC.

In this time of bad economic news and slashed training budgets, you and your team can get timely and relevant information on the world of web development. Space is limited, register today!

Josh Adams from Adobe will be at CFinNC teaching ColdFusion!

We've given Josh his own room and he's ready to roll!  If you've never used ColdFusion bring your laptop and we will take you through getting it installed and covering all the basics. You will build your first ColdFusion application using ColdFusion Builder Beta and the recently released ColdFusion 9!

Synopsis

Join this hands-on session to tap into the power of ColdFusion, building on top of your existing HTML/CSS skills to take your websites to the next level. Still the easiest programming language to learn, the tag-based CFML in ColdFusion is the perfect complement to HTML. You'll learn how to dynamically create pages from a database and build Ajax-powered interfaces with the built-in UI controls in ColdFusion.

Prerequisites

None really… …however, it will help if you have at least some knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, and/or a programming language

Skill Level

Beginner