Ben Forta Presents ColdFusion 8 at DFWCFUG
Posted by: Dave LWe had a great venue for our presentation courtesy of Aidmatrix. They have a great presentation room with 3 giant screens and comfy chairs with data connections, power, and swivel trays to put your laptop on. SWEET! ;)
Dave intros ben and puts up a slide telling all of the stuff Ben has and is doing. It's a whole bunch of badassery. Check Ben Fortas blog for more.
Gives a disclaimer about features saying that everything he shows might not be around when it ships.
Focus on 3 things Developer Productivity, Integration, and Management and Administration.
Intergration as 2 parts
-integration to other adobe products
-integration to other systems
Developer Productivity:
Image manipulation and processing
cfimage tag
-border, captcha, convert, info, read, resize, rotate, write, writetobrowser
-IsImage(), ImageGetBlob()
-using java jai libraries with extensive additions
-some metadata for images
AJAX support
-support for JSON SerializeJSON(), DESerializeJSON(), IsJSON
-controls , widgets, Layout, Live asynchronous contorls
-cfinput autosuggest option (for small lists)
-can grab input from cfc (circle shows to display db activity)
-can bind form fields to other fields
-can customize pause
-datefield is html control (yahoo user interface)
-richtext editor for textareas (fck) (no image uploading)
-cfgrid html based with sorting, paging, small cf code to do it
-form binding built into cfselects
-cfwindow tag for a draggable dhtml window, closable, etc
-all can be styled with CSS
Eclipse plug-ins
-log browser
-ajax application wizard gens cfcs and cf code (similar to flex wizard)
-can debug the ajax code using cfdebug
Improved file i/o
-cfloop through file incrementally
-cfloop index =chars
cfdocument
-total pagecount currentpage number
REPORTING
-custom templates
-use css for styling
-conditional formatting
-render xml and html
cfc interfaces
-create object interface definitions
Argument Collections
-add arguments to tags using an argment structure (argumentscollection=)
Implicit Array Creation
-implicitly create arrays (single dimensional)
Implicit Structure creation
-implicitly create structures
Use javascript Oerators
-in all cfml expressions and in cfscript
CFFTP supports sftp
query caching when using cfqueryparam
cfcs now serialize properly
Integration
-dot net cfobject will talk to .NET assemblies within tte CLR
-can mix and match cf, java, and .net objects, classes, events
Full exchange client built in
-add task, meeting, calendar, contact
-has GET filters
-do all same things outlook can do programatically
On-Demand presentation
-cfpresentation tag: creates acrobat connect presentations on the fly, without needing access to a connect server (cfpresenter,cfpresentation slide)
-can build dynamic slides, on the fly
pdf's
-cfpdf tag obtain pdf file metadata, merge pdf files,extract pages from file,encryptpdf file
create page thumbnails, flatten pdf files, protect pdf files. execute DDX instruction sets
PDF forms
-cfpdfform tag, cfpdfformparam, cfpdfsubform
-populate forms, extract data from forms
-manipulate nested forms
-pass values to form
Flash Media Server Gateway
- new gateway added
Improved Management and Administration
-Server Monitoring: see activity, requests, usage details, load and more
User based administration and RDS
-define multiple user accounts and specify which coldFusion administrator pages each has access to
Per application Settings: mappings, custom tag paths, logging, debug settings
Thats all folks!
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