Tuesday late afternoon, sneak peek!
The sneak peak on day 2 was less management focused and more product centric. The theme revolved around the 'crocodile hunter' TV show. Each presenter wore an outfit similar to the show and attempted (sometimes inconsistently) to use an Australian accent
Silka (from MM) presented on Captivate. She showed a number of cool new features they are working on including a simulation based tool with branching decision capability for training purposes.
Matt & Todd presented an example of integration between Flex and Mercury Quick TestPro They recorded a series of mouse/keyboard selections in flex as a sort of motion script. They replayed it through Mercury and it ran fine. They then slightly altered the data the application was using and when the script was ru again an error was generated. Nice feature that would be helpful with regression testing and loading possibly
James, a rep from ESRI, one of the sponsors showed a very cool mapping application in Flex
Damon Cooper showed new features they are working on for ColdFusion including RDS support in Eclipse, a visual query builder in Eclipse as well as RTMP gateway between CF & Flash Media Server 2...
We were shown how one can build Ajax applications in Dreamweaver 8
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