Mind The Gap

If you have not yet gotten your hands on the beta of Flash Catalyst, what are you waiting for?!?!?! I think this is one of the coolest pieces of technology I have seen in a long time! OK, you need to take that with a grain of salt coming from someone on the enterprise software side :-)

The bottom line is that anything that makes it easy for a design challenged person like me to import visual comps and be able to implement the code behind them – I am all for it. As a matter of fact, I actually had to speak about FC recently at a user conference here in Ottawa.

I presented to the Ottawa Flash User Group on Wednesday, June 3. There was about 80 people in the room at the Ottawa Adobe location. I had a 1 hour slot from 7:45 pm to 8:45 pm. My session was after the pizza break - so I needed to wake them up from the cheese educed coma. I used the default UG tour presentation. However, I skipped a lot of the detail slides on Flash Catalyst features since I would cover them in the demo. Everyone was very receptive to the Flash Builder renaming. They actually agreed that Flex Builder / Flex SDK was a source of confusion. I then dazzled them with the Congress demo. I did the whole thing starting from Illustrator to Flash Catalyst to Flex Builder + ColdFusion. We actually had to mop the floor of saliva and jaw marks from when they hit the floor ;). The session was a great success. A lot of "OMG - this is going to put me out of a job" and "What you just did in 2 minutes (data binding to list and showing details form as Master/Detail record) I do all day in my job, this is going to be awesome!"

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Wonder how everyone in the LiveCycle community is in the know???? Well now you have access to the secret weapon of the enterprise “in-crowd” :-)

Adobe LiveCycle Cafe is a web-connected desktop application – built on AIR of course. It provides you with real time access to all of the latest news, refined searches, live chat with the experts and more. 

Get Adobe LiveCycle Cafe now from DevNet.

See you in the cafe…

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OK people – with the drive for more Enterprise content, we also need to make a dent in the MAX Awards! This is a great opportunity to get your wicked cool LiveCycle ES / Flex applications some visibility and recognition.

submit your nominations here: https://max.adobe.com/awards/

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I have to admit I am really excited about MAX this year. We have been able to secure dedicated enterprise rooms with and a track with some awesome sessions. And I am not just talking about my sessions :)

The MAX 2009 site is now live. Under the “Session and Speakers” section, you will find a LiveCycle@MAX bundle option.  For those of you that are new to LiveCycle ES or need a refresher, I strongly recommend this bundle. It include a 1.5 day preconference lab titled LiveCycle ES: Building Rich Engaging Applications. In this lab, you will gain a baseline level knowledge of everything from the Adobe Flash Platform to LiveCycle ES Server technologies. Having worked on some of the content in this session, I can assure you that it’s a very solid base that will enable you to get the most out of the high quality sessions during the event.

The LiveCycle@MAX bundle pass includes:

• 1.5 days LiveCycle ES: Building Rich Engaging Applications preconference lab
• A full conference pass which allows access to all:
  • MAX 2009 sessions and labs on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (October 5-7)
  • MAX keynotes, evening events, the MAX Store and all activities within the Community Pavilion
  • MAX-provided meals and breaks

We really have some valuable and mind blowing content to share this year at MAX… DON’T MISS IT!

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Getting the word out on what is LiveCycle ES has just been kicked into high gear! We just released the next generation of communication vehicles to introduce the world to Adobe’s enterprise software (aka the best kept secret :) )- LiveCycle ES. Based on the success of Tour de Flex, we decided to leverage its approach and architecture built on Adobe AIR to deliver over 1600 pages of rich content and samples.

For those of you wanting to know more about how LiveCycle ES provides value to your vertical, how LiveCycle ES can fit into your IT stack, or how to administer and build your own LiveCycle ES applications, Tour de LiveCycle is the perfect place to start. Tour de LiveCycle is less than 1.5 Megs. You can even fit it on a memory stick. Have you ever tried to explain to your neighbor or family member what LiveCycle ES is? Now you have a perfect solution!!!

In addition to providing all of this valuable content, Tour de LiveCycle also provides you with an impressive quick reference to all of the services, tools and APIs you need.

You can get Tour de LiveCycle here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/tourdelivecycle

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