Two months from now, approximately 5,000 designers, developers, managers, technologists and more will once again descend upon LA for the 2011 edition of Adobe MAX.

This will be the fourth time Fuzzy Orange have been involved in a speaking capacity; 2007 in Barcelona and 2009, 2010 in LA.

For this years conference, Matt Gifford and myself will both be jetting in to present on a number of topics.

Matt Gifford

OWASP Enterprise Security API and available methods to help lock down a ColdFusion Application (Unconference)

Monday, October 3rd, 2.00 p.m. - 2.50 p.m.

Mobile Apps from 0 to 90: Powered by ColdFusion (BYOD Lab)

Tuesday, October 4th, 8.00 a.m. - 9.30 a.m.
In this 90 minute lab, you'll use Adobe Flash Builder to develop a mobile application from the ground up, compiling it as an Adobe AIR app. Learn how to create and push views, add a tabbed menu interface, and call and manage remote data from a ColdFusion web server. You'll also debug and deploy the final application to your mobile Android device.

Darwin Development (Unconference)

TBC
Evolution. It's a wonderful thing, and something that needs to occur for natural progression and the continuing advancement of ideas. As we see the modern trends, development paradigms and design practices evolve into different areas utilising newer technologies, should we really be saying goodbye to our old ways in favour of the new approach? Join Matt Gifford as he invites you to partake in a presentation with an emphasis on attendee input (with rewards) in a discussion to help understand what makes the web great, how we communicate in the modern world, and as a result whether or not we should leave the big screen behind entirely in favour of new formats.

Andy Allan

Adobe ColdFusion and modern Web front ends (Preconference Lab)

Sunday, October 2nd, 9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.
Adobe ColdFusion works very well with most javascript frameworks and especially well with jQuery. See how ColdFusion, jQuery, and mobile web standard development can catapult your ColdFusion development to the latest and greatest.

In addition to presenting, we'll also be networking like crazy, catching up with old friends and new, and taking part in as much ColdFusion related fun as possible.

See you in LA!!

Matt (Gifford) and myself will be heading out to LA a week on Saturday for Adobe MAX 2010.

We'll both be giving a hands on Lab entitled "Search Made Easy: Full Test Search with ColdFusion and Solr" at 8am on Tuesday 26th and again at 8.30am on Wednesday 27th.

Additionally, we'll both be giving presentations at the ColdFusion Unconference.

I'll be presenting on "Search and Destory: The Rock Star Approach to ColdFusion and Solr" at 3pm on Monday 25th. This session will dive into some of the unknowns such as configuration, security, monitoring, as well as some other rather nifty tricks.

Matt will be presenting "ColdFusion as a Service: How to Extend 'The Awesome'". This will be an updated version of Matt's session from Scotch on the Road 2009.

So come along, say hello, give us abuse (accompanied by donuts) and we'll maybe even buy you a beer.

It's seven weeks until Matt Gifford and myself give our Hands on Lab at this years Adobe MAX conference. We're delivering a 90 minute lab on Search Made Easy: Using ColdFusion and Solr.

We're putting the final touches to the material and we're hoping to get a full house for our lab (it's at 62% capacity right now). For anyone who attended my ColdFusion and PDF session last year, you know it will be worth it.

As an added incentive we're going to offer one lucky attendee a free ticket to Scotch on the Rocks 2011 and 3 nights accommodation at the conference venue, the Apex International Hotel.

All you need to do is attend our lab and provide Matt and and myself with a bag of donuts.

We'll then decide whose donuts were best. Simple.

Best of luck.

Adobe MAX, the annual showcase conference for all things Adobe takes place October 23-23 in Los Angeles, California.

Registration for the conference is already open, and this week the official Session Scheduler has been released.

I'm delighted to announce that Matt Gifford and myself will not only be there, but we'll also be delivering a BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) lab on "Search made Easy: Full-Text Document Search with ColdFusion".

In this lab, we'll be getting hands on and demonstrating ColdFusion and Solr; how to configure Solr, it's advantages over Verity, how to manage Collections, how to index files and query objects, and ultimate how to build a slick search interface.

You're going to love Solr once we're finished.

The Lab description says Windows, but we can guarantee it also works on the Mac as that's what we've built the code on. And there's no reason for it not to work on Linux as well, so not matter what operating system you're running, you'll be able to join in.

You can find the recording of my MAX presentation, Document Driven Applications with ColdFusion and PDF on the Adobe MAX website.

The slide deck and code can be found on Slidesix.com

For those who attended my session at CFUnited, this is an updated version of the demo app, so please grab this copy of the code too.

The annual Adobe MAX conference is due to take place in Los Angeles, October 4-7.

In typical fashion, Fuzzy Orange are sending a small crack team of commandos... well, Kev McCabe and myself, to infiltrate the camp and cause chaos. It's what we do best.

I'll be causing a major distraction on Wednesday 7th October when I give my presentation on Document Driven Applications: ColdFusion and PDF.

Learn painless techniques for incorporating documents into your workflow. In this session, we'll take an in-depth look at all the PDF-based features of ColdFusion Centaur. Find out just how easy it is to collect data from PDF forms, convert other formats to PDF, work with existing PDF documents, and even create PDF packages.

We'll also be carrying out other random acts of senseless ... fun. So keep an eye out for us.