cf.Objective ANZ Keynote Terry Ryan

Worldwide Developer Evangelist

@tpryan

Who are you?

WHAT JUST HAPPENED?

Flash Mobile

Flash Player (in browser)

AIR (out of browser)

Desktops

Devices

Flash Player (in browser)

AIR (out of browser)

Desktops

Devices

Last version is 11.1

Will still be available in store

Why?

Flex

Last Adobe Version: 4.6

•  Flex SDK •  New Spark Components •  BlazeDS •  Falcon (Upon Completion) – New Compiler

•  Falcon JS (Experimental) – MXML + AS to HTML + JS

•  In house Flex testing tools

In proposal

Why?

ColdFusion Zeus

I’m too busy being awesome!

WHERE ARE WE NOW?

Life after MAX

Creative Cloud

•  Touch Apps •  Typekit •  PhoneGap: Build •  Software

Subscription

HTML5

•  Acquired Nitobi, makers of PhoneGap

•  Released new beta of Edge

•  CSS Shaders submitted to W3C

Flash •  Released

Flash Player 11 – Stage3D – JSON Support

•  Released AIR 3 – Native Extensions – Captive Runtime

•  Gaming – Alchemy gives us

Unreal – Starling framework

YEAH YEAH YEAH, WHAT ABOUT COLDFUSION?

Near Future

ColdFusion Zeus

All section titles will be in the style of the

blogosphere

JRun is dead

•  Tomcat 7.0.8 •  Embedded, one install •  Create multiple instances through

standalone copy

Apache Tomcat

Verity has been amputated

•  Directly index database •  Custom Fields •  Reload collections individually •  Multiple Language support •  Hibernate support added

Solr

The Administrator has been enhanced!

•  Server update – Pull down updates manually – Poll for updates – Run private update site – Handle multiple servers vs single

Administrator

Security has been locked down!

•  New HMAC method •  CRLF attack protection •  CSFR attack protection

Security Enhancements

•  New Functions for cleaning user input – encodeForHTML(inputString) – encodeForHTMLAttribute(inputString) – encodeForJavaScript(inputString) – encodeForCSS(inputString) – encodeForURL(inputString)

Security Enhancements

•  New Functions for managing Sessions – sessionInvalidate() – SessionRotate()

Security Enhancements

Webservices have been upgraded!

•  Support for Axis 2 •  Support for REST •  Support for Exchange 2010

Webservices

Language has been awesomified!

•  Cookie manipulation in script •  For-in looping for queries •  CallStack •  More implicit CFC’s •  Closures

Language Enhancements

Demo

•  Implicit CFC’s •  For in looping •  Closures

HTML5 HTML5 HTML5

•  Location aware maps •  <audio> and <video> tag based

mediaplayer •  Browser capabilities •  Cfform doesn’t barf on new input types

HTML 5

Demo

•  CFMap •  CFMediaplayer

CFSCHEDULE does things before you

know you want them to happen!

•  Groups – Manage tasks together

•  Application Speci!c tasks •  Chaining •  Prioritize •  Exclude dates •  Handle errors •  Pause and resume.

CFSchedule

•  Event Handling – Before – After – OnError – OnMis!re

CFSchedule

Demo

Schedule Event Handling

Javaloader is dead!

Sorry, Mark

Find out more at my session tomorrow!

ColdFusion Builder: Twister

•  Upgrade to ColdFusion Builder 2 •  Support for Zeus – Server Manager – Language Dictionaries

•  Performance Enhancements

Twister

Two more things

In an event in Japan Tridib Chowdhury Director of Product for ColdFusion stated: “Adobe continues to invest in CF as is illustrated by 4 product releases planned in the next 24 months”

Timeline

•  Zeus (Server) •  Twister (IDE) •  ???????? (Server) •  Thunder??? (IDE)

4 Releases?

At the same event in Japan Tridib stated: “Business around pricing, licensing and access (through cloud Process innovations ) will eliminate the roadblocks for new users trying out the platform – to access the latest technology.”

Pricing Changes

CONCLUSIONS

What’s going on?

The opening battles of a new tech war

It’s not 1993 again (PC vs Mac)

It’s 2000 again (Browser war)

No other big player besides Adobe cares about

cross platform

To stay relevant we have to reach for the future faster

Follow up?

•  Feel free to contact me –  terry.ryan@adobe.com – http://terrenceryan.com – Twitter: @tpryan