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Title: Whats New from Macromedia


1
Whats New from Macromedia
  • Simon Horwith
  • CTO
  • Etrilogy, Ltd.

2
Who Am I?
  • Macromedia Certified
  • Instructor
  • Advanced ColdFusion Developer
  • Flash Developer
  • Member Team Macromedia
  • CTO, Etrilogy Ltd. (London)
  • Private Consultant Web/DB App Dev
  • Frequent CFUG and Conference Speaker
  • Monthly Contributor to CFDJ Magazine
  • Contributing Author of Several Books

3
Who Are You?
  • ColdFusion User Group Manager
  • CFUG Presenter
  • Unofficial MM representative
  • Developer

4
Presentation Overview
  • Who am I?
  • Who are you?
  • Product Overview and Recent News
  • ColdFusion
  • Flash
  • Flash Comm Server
  • Dreamweaver
  • Contribute
  • Breeze
  • Central
  • Flash Data Connection Kit
  • DRK
  • On Demand!
  • What does this mean to you???

5
Product Overview - ColdFusion
  • ColdFusion MX
  • has been on market for almost a year now!
  • supports web services, XML, more OOP concepts,
    J2EE, JDBC RDBMS connectivity, and has so many
    other new features
  • The next generation of ColdFusion MX
  • now in beta 2 Release Candidate sure to follow
    soon
  • is a version that every company running
    ColdFusion MX is sure to upgrade to

6
Product Overview Flash
  • Flash MX
  • has been on the market for over a year now and
    the plug-in has great market penetration
  • allows Flash Remoting, OOP, and is more UI and
    business app. savy
  • Next version of Flash still in alpha

7
Product Overview Flash Communication Server
  • version 1.5 has been on the market for several
    months
  • has been chosen as the platform of choice by many
    large companies for delivering streaming video,
    real time interactive functionality such as chat
    and video/audio conferencing

8
Product Overview - Dreamweaver
  • Dreamweaver MX
  • has been on the market for over a year now
  • Has all the original design features (with added
    dynamic page support) along with many of the
    behaviors and appearances of ColdFusion Studio.
    It also has excellent XML, Component, and
    WebServices support including a killer component
    builder!
  • Is continuing to gain popularity
  • many ColdFusion developers have accepted it as a
    serious development tool

9
Product Overview - Contribute
  • Contribute
  • was released about 6 months ago
  • is a very affordable light version of
    Dreamweaver MX that allows content in sites
    developed with Dreamweaver templates to be
    authored by anyone restricting them to the
    editable regions of the base Dreamweaverr
    template (think of it similarly to a content
    management system for static HTML sites).
  • has been quietly well received. Version 1.5 is
    now in beta testing, which implies that whatever
    rumors youve heard, Contribute is not going to
    just vanish

10
Product Overview - Breeze
  • Breeze
  • has been out for a few months
  • has gotten a lot of buzz in the community but not
    many people really understand what it is
  • Breeze is an application hosted by Macromedia.
    When you have a breeze account, you install a
    Breeze power-point plug-in which allows you to
    then upload power point slides to the breeze
    server which then transforms them into a flash
    movie which people can view online
  • Breeze also has e-learning functionality built
    into it!

11
Product Overview Central
  • Macromedia Central
  • Hasnt officially been released even in beta
  • Has been officially announced
  • It is a flash portal framework. Essentially, it
    is a browser that little flash movies execute
    within. These flash movies exchange data with
    each other and they talk with servers via Web
    Services.
  • Promises to give flash developers an outlet for
    desktop application development.

12
Product Overview Flash Data Connection Kit
  • Flash Data Connection Kit
  • Was released a few months ago
  • is a series of UI components that are fully
    configurable with little or no action scripting
    required
  • Out of the box functionality includes
  • interaction between its UI components
  • Record set paging navigation
  • Data maintenance
  • 3 data sources
  • Flash Remoting
  • XML
  • SQL Server 2000
  • Is ideal for Rapid Prototyping and for designers
    or developers who arent comfortable with
    actionscript to achieve dynamic results

13
Product Overview - DRK
  • DevNet Resource Kit
  • Is how Macromedia now offers top notch support to
    developers who use various products
  • Latest release is DRK 3 which showcased 3
    ColdFusion Applications, Flash Component Kit 5,
    other sample applications, articles, and more

14
Product Overview On Demand!
  • On Demand
  • Is brand spanking new few people have seen it or
    heard about it
  • Is a series of free online tutorials created by
    Macromedia in order to support their products
  • Was created with Breeze and is the first great
    example Ive seen of Breeze at work!
  • Can be accessed at http//www.macromedia.com/macr
    omedia/events/online/ondemand/

15
Discussion
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