Macromedia DevCon 2002 Keynote Highlights Performance Tuning tidbits Web Services tidbits New Technology showcased

Keynote Highlights Emphasizing the "experience economy" (ala Starbucks) Extract Commodities -> Make Goods -> Deliver Services -> Stage Experiences Flash showcase: Remoting (CF MX + Flash) Communication Server (streaming video) Household devices Mobile (Sony Clie - Palm V OS)

Performance Tuning tidbits CF MX with Updater 1 -> up to 60% faster than CF 5 Some CFML functions/tags up to 10x faster (avg 2-3x faster) A few tags are somewhat slower. ("The obscure ones") Use CFC's Custom tags rewritten as CFC's are up to 30% faster

Performance Tuning (cont’d) Use CFINVOKE to call web services, not CFOBJECT User CFQUERYPARAM in CFQUERY tags to leverage BIND parameters COM = Evil.

Web Services Apache Axis is the 3rd party tool CFMX uses to interpret WDSL Ships with beta version, Axis recently went gold Updater 3 will allow you to update/run your own interpreter CFINVOKE does not provide proxy server or proxy port attributes

Web Services (cont’d) Web Services are still in their infancy, some standards still being set –Complex objects, like arrays and structures can get hinky. Avoid query objects if you need to be platform independent –Consider sending an XML string instead.

New Technology aka Contribute $99 desktop product for non-techies to update content Won't break your code Has offline mode, previews, approvals, some security, etc.

New Technology (cont’d) Flash Communications Server Streaming video, White boarding, Chat "Shared" Flash SWF's 1.0 product (but they're working on a new rev)

Next Year DevCon 2003 San Diego, CA Sept 7th-10th,