I keep forgetting to do this. Sorry :(
I have given three presentations so far this year, and I will have 2 or three more et before the end of the year. Here are the slides for the first three in both Keynote and PDF formats.
I was talking to Charlie Arehart today after his "Hidden Gems in ColdFusion Builder" presentation at CFUnited 2010 and I mention that, for some reason, ColdFusion Builder has the Adobe AIR packaging features of the application hidden by default. So I thought I would write a post on how to enable them for those that would like to use CFBuilder for developing AIR applications.
Right now I am on my way to NCDevCon (Yay for free inflight internet!!).
If you are going to be at the conference this weekend, please do not hesitate to introduce yourself. One of the main reasons I go to conferences is to meet others.
On Saturday I will be speaking about Security in Adobe AIR applications. I will point out that this session is targeted toward experienced AIR developers (either Flex or HTML JS).
Anyway, I am looking forward to the conference. Last year's CFinNC was amazing, and I am positive that this year will be just as good.
Bleh. I have been sick for the last week and have spent a lot of time away from the keyboard and from blogging. But I was able to give both of my presentations at the MN Government IT Symposium last week and they both wen toff excellently. I got a lot of good feedback for both. Even my application security presentation, which was the last session on the last day managed to draw 20 attendees, which, I understand, is pretty good.
Anyway, here are my presentations in their original formats and in PDF format.
Last year I spoke at the Minnesota Government IT Symposium on application security, and I thought it went really well. I ended up with 75 or so attendees (for a 2.5 hour presentation), which I thought was fantastic.
This year I have been honored with being selected to speak again on application security (this time for only one hour) and also on Adobe AIR.
I found out late last week that I am one of several people to have had a presentation topic selected for CFUnited 2010. This is very exciting for me and is a great honor.
The selected topic title is "Understanding Security in Adobe AIR Applications" and here is the description.
Wait... You mean AIR applications have different security concerns than regular web applications? Yes, they do. Since Adobe AIR applications are desktop applications we have new security considerations to think about. Come learn how to ensure that your AIR applications are secure. In this presentation we will go over the Adobe AIR security model and some security best practices in Adobe AIR for both Flex and Ajax applications.
I am really looking froward to putting together this presentation and presenting it to one of the many fantastic conference audiences in the best developer community in the world.
Getting back on track with projects I have already started, I want to finish up this series of posts of using SQLite databases with Adobe AIR. This last section will be on using Encrypted SQLite Databases.
So while searching for some Adobe AIR information the other day, I came across the PDF of a book that I have been using to help me learn AIR with JavaScript. I thought maybe it would come in handy for some others, as it has for me.
This is something I came across at work that I thought I would share, because at first, it had me scratching my head.
Internally, Adobe AIR uses webkit as a "browser" which is great, and as expected, it actually behaves like a browser, including cookie support for access to external resources. Which means that when you are making remote calls to resources, you can use cookies to maintain sessions, or for information tracking.
Last night we did a hands-on Adobe AIR session at the Twin Cities ColdFusion User Group meeting. We had a great turnout of about 18 people and I was very happy to see so much interest in Adobe AIR. I think it is a lot of fun to work in and I am glad I piqued the interest of so many others.
As promised at the meeting, I am posting the source code of the completed application.
