Adobe MAX day 3
CF8 on OSX, Flex, CFML, Actionscript, Adobe, ColdFusion, MAXWell I am back home and the excitement has begun to die down. I’ve begun running trough my notes on new idea’s and products to try out and my wife is probably sick of me talking about Adobe, Coldfusion and Flex for a while and I’m actually looking forward to heading back to work.
Day 3 was still a fun day where I participated in the Coldfusion/Flex/Live cycle lab. Some of what we went over I was already currently using but I did pick up few tricks one of those was that while there is a connection limit to the included LCDS services in CF 8 standard the limit is around 1000 which is more then I need for the current app, but still good to know.
I spent some more time at the CF Unconference where I sat in on the CF Uber panel which will be on the CF Conversations podcast. I also got to meet Joe Rinehart the creator of Model Glue. He talked about Broadchoice and the technologies used. He actually spoke a bit on Groovy which I already have been thinking or looking at but after some of the quick demos I intend to take a closer look. I also sat in on a session where I was introduced to the webserver stress tool. A mid priced web stress testing tool. http://www.paessler.com/webstress/download ( I’m sorry I forgot the name of the presenter ).
I also went to the very last session on what’s new in Flex 4 and there are some nice new things, the integration of Flex Unit for one, 2 way data binding ie testInput.text =”{@myValue}”, the separation so a designer can do there thing and the dev there’s, the tighter CF intergration and more.
I hope I get to attend next year and catch up with everyone I met but I definitely intend to keep in touch with you all.
My new look macbook courtesy of the CF Unconference :)
I'm not a sticker guy but I'm proud to show this one.
CF 8 on Macbook
CF8 on OSXThe older my home desktop PC gets the less I seem to be using it. I am finding myself using my Macbook more and more to a point where my screen is no longer plugged into the desktop and just waiting to plug into the external display of the Mac. So what does this mean for my laptop? Well for one thing I need Coldfusion running locally on the Mac to continue my work at home.
After recently upgrading to Leopard I noticed a few posts and stories that CF8 won't "just work" under Leopard. Without bothering to do any research I installed CF hoping to use the internal webserver. This plan basically failed to render the first time I tried some simple cfm's. Back to the drawing board ( google ) where I found this great post: http://renaun.com/blog/2007/08/07/230/ I followed the simple steps which bypassed my next hurdle, installing MySQL. Needless to say this worked like a dream and I had my code up and running and communicating wth Flex in no time. So big thanks to Renaun.
As a comparison I did some massive imports from XML to MySQL on the Macbook ( 1.8 Dual Core ) compared to my work machine Vista ( Core 2 Duo 2.2 ) with little or no difference in speed. Which is great considering the Vista machine was connected to a DB ( MsSQL ) server on the LAN.
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