Whats New from Macromedia

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Whats New from Macromedia

• Simon Horwith
• CTO
• Etrilogy, Ltd.

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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

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Who Are You?

• ColdFusion User Group Manager
• CFUG Presenter
• Unofficial MM representative
• Developer

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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???

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!

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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.

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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

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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

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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/

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Discussion

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