Please join us November 16-19 in San Francisco for Adobe MAX 2008 which will bring together thousands of forward-thinking designers, developers, and business decision makers that are shaping the future of our industry. As part of the agenda at this year's MAX, Adobe has added the MAX Unconference area. The Unconference is a way for attendees to convene in a casual setting to share ideas as well as host their own discussion groups. This year ColdFusion has been chosen as one of the four organizations to run one of the Unconference areas.

Anyone with a MAX badge can participate in this program. Come share your knowledge by joining in the open discussions, suggesting topics, creating agendas and participating in engaging Q & A.

Darrell Crutchley and I are looking for a 3rd person to sign up for the educational discount registration for MAX. If interested, please contact me.
Sam Singer
singess@auburn.edu

Everybody should like this announcement. This could take effect with the current version.

I have the latest from John Mason's blog. He is attending CFUnited this week. Adobe has disclosed some of the new features that we can expect in the next ColdFusion release code named Centaur. Here is John's blog url: http://www.codfusion.com/blog/

AN JOSE, Calif. --
Adobe Systems Inc. is launching a new version of its document sharing software Acrobat on Monday, and this time it can package videos.

Acrobat allows users to package documents so they can be read across different hardware and operating systems.

Acrobat 9 comes with Adobe's video-enabling software Flash. Users can include Flash-based videos when they create and share documents with the portable document format, commonly known as PDF.

With a professional version of Acrobat 9, for example, users could package a Power Point presentation not just with images, but also with an audio of the presenter's voice.

Thank you for your interest in Adobe MAX 2008.

We are pleased to offer our government, nonprofit and education communities
a discounted price for the full pass for MAX 2008. The registration fee of
$995 is a savings of $300 off the early bird pricing of $1295.

The registration code is GEN884. You will need this code to begin your
registration and to guarantee the registration fee of $995 for the full
pass.
Please note: the government, nonprofit and education registration code
cannot be combined with the group discount.

Additionally, we are pleased to provide a $100 savings for the pre-event

Registration is now open. I'm trying to get the education prices, so far unsuccessfully. The discount for three is available, but much higher than last year.

Our next AMMUG meeting is planned for Thursday, May, 2008 @ 10:00AM in Extension Hall [3] Rm. 67 (CTU Conf.).

We are expecting John Mason, an Auburn alum and president of the Atlanta ColdFusion users group to be the speaker. John's presentation will be announced in more detail in a later post.

If you currently use ColdFusion, ASP, PHP, or FLEX or have been interested in these technologies, don't miss this meeting.

Sam Singer

We've got a department that publishes a journal. They want to be able to accept on-line credit card payments for subscriptions to this journal. They do not currently accept credit cards, only checks. Does anyone have any experience doing this? I understand that the University has a program that could handle this sort of transaction, but I don't know what it's called.

CEO Bruce Chizen said Monday he would step down, and President and Chief Operating Officer Shantanu Narayen will replace him on Dec. 1.

Narayen will retain his title as Adobe's president and join its board in December, Adobe said. Narayen has been president and COO of the maker of the popular Photoshop, Flash and Acrobat programs for almost three years.
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