I wanted to start playing with the new LiveCycle DS 2.6 functionality and I wanted to integrate 2.6 with Coldfusion 8.  What I found on Adobe labs wasnt really what I would call straight forward on how to install 2.6 into CF 8.01, maybe it was just me but I like things explained and I cant stand it when the instructions leave out a very important step.  I found some good resources after googling last night and decided I would just combine what I found on my blog for others as a reference.  So grab a beer, sit back and relax, because its really easy to do if you know "exactly" what to do.

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Day 1:

Ben Forta kicked off the event with a couple charts on where CF is now, and where its going.  He emphasized more on LiveCycle integration, Flex Integration and BlazeDS.  There was some confusion as to what exactly the difference is between the LiveCycle DS ES & Blaze DS... Adobe really needs to fix that so it's not so confusing.  He also talked a little bit about the CF Open Process Initiative.  I wont get into the details, but he basically talked about a bug tracker, a improved enhancement request process and a custom advisory board.  Ben Forta also hinted at some future CF 9 improvements one that I thought was being hinted at was AIR integration in CF 9.  He also "hinted" at a CF IDE, basically he said improving the developer experience... so you can read into that how ever you want.  I basically read it to say "CF IDE".  Enough said.  Overall Day 1 for me was pretty good, I attended a couple classes later in the day that I really liked.  One was ColdSpring, I learned more about the AOP capabilities of Coldspring than I knew before the class thanks to Matt Woodward.  I also attended a couple sessions on the new cfdocument and cfpdf capabilities.  I already have a couple use cases for the cfpdf capability when combining multiple pdfs into one.  I hope to have a sample on this blog in a couple days.

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I fly out this Friday to prepare for the webmaniacs conference next week.  My wife and I are doing a little site seeing prior to the conference over the weekend.  Should be a lot of fun and I am looking forward to getting away from work for a little bit and spending some QT with my wife. 

I took some time and put my "current" agenda on my google calendar.  They have a useful print option that saves the calendar to a PDF.  I have uploaded my schedule if anyone is interested in seeing what type of sessions I signed up for (see below), I may modify it a little.  I am not thrilled on some of the topics I signed up for the first two days of the conference and may make some adjustments.

I plan on posting my notes daily next week on either the days summary or a particular session.  I haven't decided, it really depends on how much time I have and how much time I want to invest in blogging all the cool stuff I hear about in the sessions and talking with other developers.  So stay tuned.

Download my WebManiacs Session Agenda

I was reading through some blogs this morning, some how I managed to read a July 2007 post on Sean Corfield's site nearly a year later... which sent me to Brian Rinald's blog and Matt Woodwards Blog about Design patterns in CF  (both are good reads, why I didnt see them before... who knows).  Than I started reading about some of Brian's post on his cf.objective() reviews, which led me to this post in particular "Flex: No Framworks Required". Anyway, most of what I do is in Flex these days with little CF writing since I use a kick@__ generator (cough... Illidium) for most of the backend logic for most of the backend logic, ColdSpring & I am looking into leveraging Transfer.

Now I have read one book so far on Design patterns, "Advanced Design Patterns for ActionScript" by Joey Lott & Danny Patterson.  This book discusses MVC, Command, Singleton, Proxy, Memento, Factory, Template and many others.  Brian's post mentions some other patterns one of which I am not familiar with:

• Observer (I use this to help Cairngorm notify my view)
• Registry
• Responder (I use this)

In Sean's comments some folks talk about a ProtoType pattern that I am not familiar with yet , he also mentions a book by "The Gang of Four" on design patterns another book that I may be adding to my collection soon. 

So with all the hype, and I say hype not to mock patterns (I do indeed believe in their use), but in our community patterns are being talked about alot... therefore at the moment its the "hype".  So with all the hype in patterns, is there a.....

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A colleague of mine sent me a couple links on Yahoo's site that actually had ".cfm" extensions.   My first thought was, wow.  My second thought was I wonder if they plan on using CF in other areas besides the press room and in job post? 

http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/management.cfm
https://yahoo.recruitmax.com/MAIN/careerportal/Job_Profile.cfm?szOrderID=11916&szUniqueCareerPortalID=b22460b8-2565-4396-9190-8a7b37df9db2