1. cf.Objective ANZ
Keynote
Terry Ryan
Worldwide Developer Evangelist
@tpryan

2. Who are you?

5. WHAT JUST HAPPENED?

6. Flash Mobile

7. Flash Player AIR
(in browser) (out of browser)
Desktops
Devices

8. Flash Player AIR
(in browser) (out of browser)
Desktops
Devices

9. Last version is 11.1

10. Will still be
available in store

11. Why?

13. Flex

15. Last Adobe Version:
4.6

16. In proposal
• Flex SDK
• New Spark Components
• BlazeDS
• Falcon (Upon Completion)
– New Compiler
• Falcon JS (Experimental)
– MXML + AS to HTML + JS
• In house Flex testing tools

17. Why?

19. ColdFusion
Zeus

20. I’m too busy
being
awesome!

21. Life after MAX
WHERE ARE WE NOW?

23. Creative Cloud
• Touch Apps
• Typekit
• PhoneGap: Build
• Software
Subscription

24. HTML5
• Acquired Nitobi,
makers of
PhoneGap
• Released new beta
of Edge
• CSS Shaders
submitted to W3C

25. • Released
Flash Flash Player 11
– Stage3D
– JSON Support
• Released
AIR 3
– Native Extensions
– Captive Runtime
• Gaming
– Alchemy gives us
Unreal
– Starling framework

26. Near Future
YEAH YEAH YEAH, WHAT ABOUT
COLDFUSION?

27. ColdFusion
Zeus

28. All section titles will
be in the style of the
blogosphere

29. JRun is dead

30. Apache Tomcat
• Tomcat 7.0.8
• Embedded, one install
• Create multiple instances through
standalone copy

31. Verity has been
amputated

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

33. The Administrator
has been enhanced!

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

35. Security has been
locked down!

36. Security Enhancements
• New HMAC method
• CRLF attack protection
• CSFR attack protection

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

38. Security Enhancements
• New Functions for managing Sessions
– sessionInvalidate()
– SessionRotate()

39. Webservices have
been upgraded!

40. Webservices
• Support for Axis 2
• Support for REST
• Support for Exchange 2010

41. Language has been
awesomified!

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

43. Demo
• Implicit CFC’s
• For in looping
• Closures

44. HTML5 HTML5 HTML5

45. HTML 5
• Location aware maps
• <audio> and <video> tag based
mediaplayer
• Browser capabilities
• Cfform doesn’t barf on new input types

46. Demo
• CFMap
• CFMediaplayer

47. CFSCHEDULE does
things before you
know you want them
to happen!

48. CFSchedule
• Groups
– Manage tasks together
• Application Speci c tasks
• Chaining
• Prioritize
• Exclude dates
• Handle errors
• Pause and resume.

49. CFSchedule
• Event Handling
– Before
– After
– OnError
– OnMis re

50. Demo
Schedule
Event Handling

51. Javaloader is dead!

52. Sorry, Mark 

53. Find out more at my
session tomorrow!

54. ColdFusion
Builder: Twister

55. Twister
• Upgrade to ColdFusion Builder 2
• Support for Zeus
– Server Manager
– Language Dictionaries
• Performance Enhancements

56. Two more things

57. Timeline
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”

58. 4 Releases?
• Zeus (Server)
• Twister (IDE)
• ???????? (Server)
• Thunder??? (IDE)

59. Pricing Changes
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.”

60. CONCLUSIONS

61. What’s going on?

62. The opening battles
of a new tech war

63. It’s not 1993 again
(PC vs Mac)

64. It’s 2000 again
(Browser war)

65. No other big player
besides Adobe
cares about
cross platform

66. To stay relevant we
have to reach for
the future faster

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