CF/Flex Coding Kitchen
Now imagine a large auditorium with 70+ people trying to install Flexbuilder and ColdFusion updaters in mass, from <20 CDs.
:-)
We spent over an hour trying to get everyone's laptops fully updated/installed with Flex Builder, CF updates, CFEclipse, etc.
I did have a chance to ask Mike Nimer, the developer of Flash Forms (in CF) on how to get my flash forms working on a host/ISP. There is a known configuration problem where ISPs aren't mapping the /CFIDE/scripts folder in CF and aren't making it readily available to developers on their servers. One can upload your own copy of the folder & files to their working directory and then in a CF form, add the scripts="/cfide/scripts" or similar path to their form tag. This should allow CF to find the necessary files to create the flash forms.
Two hours into the demo and we have accomplished surprisingly little. We briefly saw a demo and now there is Adobe staff banter. The majority of the audience appears to be completely lost. Dean knows his stuff...which is nice, but he keeps jumping ahead of everyone. I'm quickly loosing interest in this presentation and a number of people around me are too. We are sitting farther from our computers and just watching and not trying to keep up.
Ladies & Gentleman, you just missed organized chaos.
CFObjective was impressive in that things were organized pretty well, except for projector issues here and there that were quickly resolved. I like to see that they attempted a 3 hour session though. The 50 minute sessions are too fast for some topics...often limiting.
Sean Corfield...take note. (he, he) I'm not being pessimistic, just pointing out where conference cost doesn't meet with expectations.
They did have plenty of CDs made to help speed it up.