BFusion and BFlex are right around the corner.

I'll be there to give the BFusion keynote and talk about superfast application building using Apptacular.

I believe my colleague Paul Trani will also be there, and is giving the BFlex keynote.

And with such a killer lineup, Bloomington, Indiana will be the place to be this September 11 and 12th.

I'm happy to say I'll be at the Heartland Developers Conference in Omaha Nebraska this year.

I'll be talking about ColdFusion, and how it can power truly rapid RIAs. In order to explain the whole workflow, I'll be touching on ORM, scripting, Flash Catalyst, Flex 4 and Flash Builder.

Additionally, two other Adobeans will be making the trip, Paul Trani and Kevin Hoyt. Here's our lineup:

• Closing Keynote Day 2: Developing for Android with Flash (Kevin Hoyt)
• Blowing Minds in a Flash (Kevin Hoyt)
• Design Fundamentals for Developers (Paul Trani)
• ColdFusion as a Backend for RAD RIA (Terry Ryan)

So hope to see everyone in Omaha this September 8-10.

I'm posting all of the materials so that if you want to fool around with anything you saw in my demos, you're all set.

It contains:

• Fireworks Composition in PNG
• 6 FXP files for the various stages of the application
• 1 FXP file for an ActionScript only version of the project, which does away with Flash Catalyst and Flex.

Download the materials

In this last video installment, I'll show you how to take your desktop AIR application and turn it into a mobile one:

Flash Catalyst for Mobile Development 3 from Terry Ryan on Vimeo.

For my second video in the series, I'll show you how to take a Flash Catalyst interactive composition and turn it into a stand-alone application using Flash Builder and Adobe AIR.

Flash Catalyst for Mobile Development 2 from Terry Ryan on Vimeo.

I'm starting up new little series entitled "Holy Crap, I'm a Mobile Developer." The idea is that somewhere along the way I developed the ability to build applications for mobile devices, specifically Android. Sadly I can't take any credit for this. The Flash Platform engineering teams did this to me.

In my series of demos, I'm going to show how to take a static Fireworks composition and turn it into an application running on a Nexus One. I start out using Flash Catalyst to turn the static composition into an interactive one (interactive composition sounds better than "dumb prototype"). After Catalyst, I add business logic using Flash Builder. Finally I use the AIR 2.5 SDK and the Android SDK to convert it to an Android app and drop it onto my phone.

My point here with these posts is to show off just how frickin' easy it is to get your stuff onto a mobile device with the Flash Platform. It's so easy that I can do it. That's not false modesty, I'm mostly a back-end ColdFusion expert; on the front-end though, I'm usually at a loss. Not with these tools, I'm not. These tools make me look like a front-end genius. So I hope you enjoy this series.

Adobe Developer Week is next week, and it is shaping up to be massive. We've put together a lineup of 19 sessions dedicated to current and pressing topics on the Flash Platform. In response over 20,0000 of you have signed up and are ready to learn more.

I'm personally doing two sessions:

Adobe Flash Builder 4 and Adobe ColdFusion 9

May 12, 2010 2 pm PDT

Flash Builder 4 and ColdFusion 9 were made to work with each other, literally. This session will show you the features in ColdFusion 9 that will make your Flex life easier. You will also get to see how Flash Builder's new features help to rapidly make Flash-powered front ends for your ColdFusion back ends.

Adobe ColdFusion 9 and Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5

May 14, 2010 11 am PDT

ColdFusion has always been about RAD. It continues to be the fastest way to create back-ends for your data-driven applications. Flash Catalyst can do the same for your front ends, making it easy to create Flash-powered content that people want to use. This session will show you how Flash Catalyst and ColdFusion can be combined for some lightning-fast application development.

So go sign up and be a part of what is shaping up to be quite a massive event.

Make sure you check out the rest of the content:

• Welcome and Introduction to the Adobe® Flash® Platform: Ben Forta
• Building Multi-Screen Applications with the Adobe® Flash® Platform and Adobe® Creative Suite® 5: Paul Trani
• New Features in Adobe® Flex® 4 Framework: Deepa Subramaniam
• New Features in Adobe® Flash® Builder™ 4: Andrew Shorten
• Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ CS5 for Developers: Doug Winnie
• Building Mobile Applications with Adobe® Flash® Professional™ CS5: Create a Game: Paul Trani
• What's New in Adobe® Flash® Builder™ for Java Developers: James Ward
• New Features in Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1: Lee Brimelow
• Creating Sexy Applications with the Adobe® Flash® Platform: Designer-Developer Workflow: Serge Jespers
• A Basic CRUD Application with Zend AMF and Adobe® Flex 4 Ryan Stewart and Kevin Schroeder
• Adobe® Flash® Builder™ 4 and Adobe® ColdFusion® 9: Terry Ryan
• Advanced Features In Adobe® Flex®: Ely Greenfield
• AS34J: ActionScript 3 for Java Developers: Chet Haase
• Adobe® Flash® Platform and Salesforce.com: James Ward
• Adobe® Flash® Builder™ for Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS5 Users: Ryan Stewart
• Using Advanced Features with Adobe® Flex® & PHP: Ryan Stewart
• Adobe® ColdFusion® 9 and Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ CS5: Terry Ryan
• Adobe® Flex® and BlazeDS Integration with SpringSource: Christophe Coenraets and Jeremy Grelle
• Building Desktop Applications with Adobe® AIR® 2.0: Ryan Stewart

Once again, it is my pleasure to present to the hometown crowd here in Philly.

I'll be presenting to an uber collection of Philadelphia area Adobe groups:

• Philadelphia Flex User Group
• Philadelphia Flash Platform AUG
• Philadelphia ColdFusion User Group
• Philly Illustrator User Group
• Photoshop Philadelphia

I'll be presenting on what's new in the Flex 4, Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst releases. I hope to see you all there:

Wednesday, April 28th @ 6:30pm

Wharton's Jon M. Huntsman Hall Room
Room G65
3730 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA

SEPTA: Trolley to 36th or 37th street stations

Parking: Closest: 38th & Walnut

This week I'm doing two stops on the ColdFusion Builder User Group tour. Both are in the LA area.

I'll be stopping by the The Inland Empire ColdFusion User Group meeting on April 7th at 7:00PM on the Cal Poly Pomona campus. Check out their site for directions and whatnot.

I'll also be stopping by the LA Web Professionals meeting on April 8th at 6:30 in Hollywood. Check out their site for whatnot and directions.

I'll be talking about ColdFusion Builder as well as Flex and Flash Builder. I look forward to seeing you all there.

Since the cat's out of the bag on the fact that ColdFusion Builder comes bundled with Flash Builder, I thought it might be good to share some tips for using them together.

Flash Builder 4 for ColdFusion Developers

This video gives a little overview of using ColdFusion services with Flash Builder. It will show exactly how to pull them in and use them together.

Using Flash Builder 4 and ColdFusion Builder in an integrated workflow

This article goes over using ColdFusion services with Flash Builder. It uses ColdFusion Builder and Apptacular to generate back-end services. It then shows you how to consume them with Flash Builder. Yes, it uses Apptacular, so if you want to get your hands on that, there is a download link. The copy of Apptacular included in this article definitely works with the demo. Past that, I know I've added some bug fixes since then, so caveat downloader.