Adobe have upgraded Acrobat.com over the weekend to the new “Unity” release, bringing the same collaboration benefits currently offered for documents & meeting rooms to your slides & spreadsheets.
I’ve been using Buzzword, Adobe’s online word processor, ever since Adobe acquired Virtual Ubiquity and the fact that I can now have Presentations & Tables, all in a unified organizer is fantastic. Do I still use Microsoft Word, Powerpoint & Excel? Sure I do, but the collaborative nature of Acrobat.com is seeing me change the way I work and I’m progressively sharing more of my work while its still in progress, rather than waiting till i’m finished, and having other people add their input as I’m writing is fantastic and has sped up the way I work.
The biggest benefit is that there are no more annoying file sharing issues, concerns around which is the latest version, or worrying about what software everyone involved has. If you have Flash 9 or above (99.3% of Australians do!) then you are good to go.
Adobe have released a free fully functional trial version of LiveCycle ES2. Also available are lots of recordings & samples for you to get familiar with the latest release.
There has never been a better time to kick the tyres of LiveCycle, and once installed you can have fully functioning applications built in minutes! Go get it!
At the recent MAX conference Adobe announced that it was working on new versions of both Flash Player & Adobe AIR. These new updates are now available in prerelease format to allow developers to download and test the new enhancements.
Flash Player 10.1 is the first consistent browser runtime release of the Open Screen Project that will enable uncompromised Web browsing of expressive applications, content and high definition (HD) videos across the desktop and devices.
Apart from being the first release to target non PC devices like mobile phones, its faster. A LOT faster!
Adobe AIR 2 builds on the success of AIR 1.0, allowing developers to create more reliable and feature-rich applications in the desktop context, and they can easily add AIR 2 functionality to update current AIR 1.0 applications. New AIR 2 features include enhanced support for mass storage devices and native application processes, as well as peer-to-peer and UDP networking.
Watch Kevin Lynch at MAX talk about AIR 2.0.
Download both the Flash Player & AIR 2 prerelease betas at labs.adobe.com
Last week I presented at the Melbourne based cfObjective conference. My topic covered a quick look at SOA principles, how they related to ColdFusion, then introduced LiveCycle ES2.
Apart from the slides below, I was able to build an application from scratch in just under 40 minutes, including an approval process with workflow, a common data model that spanned across all UI/Forms, and built all the forms in both Flex & PDF.
I wrapped up the session on how ColdFusion & LiveCycle ES2 can be used together and how to get started. Thanks to everyone who attended!
Adobe’s Ben Forta visited Australia this week and I had the pleasure of joining him in the ZDNet studios in Sydney. Below is the video interview that was filmed with Chris Duckett. Ben talks about ColdFusion, the Flash Platform and a whole bunch of other interesting things!
Adobe recently announced LiveCycle ES2, the next version of the Enterprise Suite of technology for linking PDF, Flash, HTML and more with your core business systems. Here is your chance to see how LiveCycle ES and the Adobe Flash Platform can be used to build solutions including;
Data Capture
Rich Internet Applications
Document Conversion & Output
Process Management
Content Services
Document Security
If you’ve heard about LiveCycle and want to know more or you’re an existing user and are curious about the new improvements, then join me for a overview and a chance to have all your questions answered.
I’ll take you through the technical details of LiveCycle ES2, showing you how quickly you can put solutions together that meet your business user requirements plus how LiveCycle integrates with the Adobe Flash Platform. All live demos and no slides (well maybe a couple of diagrams!)
The session will run for 90 minutes from 10am in the following cities:
Tue 24 Nov – Brisbane, Brisbane
Wed 25 Nov – Sydney, Sydney
Thu 26 Nov – Canberra, Canberra
Fri 27 Nov – Melbourne, Melbourne
Wait! That’s not an Australian tour! What about Adelaide & Perth?
Well, I’ll be in Perth this week attending Edge Of The Web so send me a tweet if you’d like to meet up and take a look.
If you’re in Adelaide, Darwin or anywhere else and interested let me know and i’ll work something out.
Come and check out LiveCycle ES2.. if you need to build Enterprise applications and want to make your customers / end users happy, you need to check this out!
10-13 November 2009 is shaping up to be a week of ColdFusion in Australia with many CF related activities!
Ben Forta in The House
It’s been years since Ben Forta has journeyed to Australia. Happy to announce the original ColdFusion evangelist is back and visiting Melbourne and Sydney. He’s joined by Terry Ryan from the ColdFusion evangelism team.
ColdFusion User Group & Drinks: 10-Nov (Sydney)
The “Forta” and Terry Ryan are in town for a gab-fest at the Adobe Offices in Chatswood. Plan is for a 2-4pm CF9/Builder presentation via Connect and/or in the Adobe Office in Sydney then low key meetup at a pub somewhere in Sydney at 8.30pm. If you are interested in joining us in the Adobe office send me a note on twitter.com/mszulc
Inaugural FarCry DevCamp at Melbourne Law School. Learn about the future direction of the open source FarCry framework and CMS, in-depth technical sessions, case studies and general developer tom-foolery. It’s free and should be a lot of fun.
The inaugural cf.objective ANZ Conference!!! The line up includes Ben Forta & Terry Ryan from Adobe US plus Andrew Spaulding & me from Adobe AU. Even better is that you get to hear from the experts and your peers in the community and many other guest stars from home and abroad. Mega ROI for ColdFusion boffins, and L-platers alike. Get the low down on the latest ColdFusion 9 release and the upcoming ColdFusion Builder IDE, not to mention world’s best practice CF development from the world’s best.
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I’ve been using Buzzword, Adobe’s online word processor, ever since Adobe acquired Virtual Ubiquity and the fact that I can now have Presentations & Tables, all in a unified organizer is fantastic. Do I still use Microsoft Word, Powerpoint & Excel? Sure I do, but the collaborative nature of Acrobat.com is seeing me change the way I work and I’m progressively sharing more of my work while its still in progress, rather than waiting till i’m finished, and having other people add their input as I’m writing is fantastic and has sped up the way I work.
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