Mark Szulc's Blog

Tour De LiveCycle updated for LiveCycle ES2

Mark Szulc — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:12:22 +0000

Adobe has released an updated version of Tour de LiveCycle. This tool covers the entire LiveCycle ES 2 suite which is far more than simply data services. Topics include process management, rights management, document security, developer tools, end user interfaces and much more. There are over 1,000 pages of content and samples! If you [...]

Building a controlled Twitter solution using Adobe LiveCycle ES

Mark Szulc — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:46:30 +0000

My colleagues from Adobe’s Benelux technical team have come up with another great use case for my custom LiveCycle ES Twitter Component I built some time ago. Anyone with a corporate shared Twitter account will understand the conflict between being open and allowing anyone to post a tweet vs making sure that [...]

January 2010 Security Update for Adobe Reader and Acrobat

Mark Szulc — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:48:46 +0000

Adobe recently announced some key changes in the enhanced security feature with the January 2010 release of Acrobat & Reader. 1. Acrobat/Reader Trusted Sites now recognize files that comes from Windows Trusted Sites. 2. All of the enhanced security modal dialogs have been converted into information bar (i.e., [...]

Acrobat.com now on iPhone

Mark Szulc — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:49:40 +0000

In November I wrote about “must see” Acrobat.com improvements made by Adobe to its free online collaboration service. In the press release about the latest version there was mention of work done by scanR to bring mobile integration to Acrobat.com users. This release for iPhone is now live on the iTunes app store. So why use [...]

Adobe Refresh 2010 coming soon to AU & NZ!

Mark Szulc — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:44:12 +0000

For the 4th year in a row the Adobe Australia tech team are heading out around the country for the Adobe Refresh roadshow, and this year we’re even making it across to Perth! You’ll have a chance to join Andrew Spaulding, Mike McHugh, Paul Burnett and me as we show you live demos of our favourite [...]

Adobe Acrobat, Reader & LiveCycle Designer updates

Mark Szulc — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:55:27 +0000

Over the last few days there have been a few updates and announcements of note to Acrobat & LiveCycle users, plus anyone running Adobe Reader (and that’s most of us right?) Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.3 and 8.2 A new security update is available for Acrobat & Reader users. I’m by no means a security expert but [...]

New “must see” Acrobat.com improvements!

Mark Szulc — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:14:46 +0000

Adobe have upgraded Acrobat.com over the weekend to the new “Unity” release, bringing the same collaboration benefits currently offered for documents & meeting rooms to your slides & spreadsheets. I’ve been using Buzzword, Adobe’s online word processor, ever since Adobe acquired Virtual Ubiquity and the fact that I can now have Presentations & Tables, all in [...]

Adobe LiveCycle ES2 trial now available – How to get started.

Mark Szulc — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:25:34 +0000

Adobe have released a free fully functional trial version of LiveCycle ES2. Also available are lots of recordings & samples for you to get familiar with the latest release. LiveCycle ES2 downloads – http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/?view=downloads LiveCycle ES2 documentation – http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/?view=documentation LiveCycle ES2 samples – http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/?view=samples LiveCycle ES2 home on Adobe DevNet – http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/?view=home Finally, for the business orientated, check out the [...]

Adobe AIR 2.0 & Flash Player 10.1 beta prerelease now available

Mark Szulc — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:41:43 +0000

At the recent MAX conference Adobe announced that it was working on new versions of both Flash Player & Adobe AIR. These new updates are now available in prerelease format to allow developers to download and test the new enhancements. Flash Player 10.1 is the first consistent browser runtime release of the Open Screen Project that [...]

cfObjective presentation – ColdFusion, LiveCycle & SOA

Mark Szulc — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:44:22 +0000

Last week I presented at the Melbourne based cfObjective conference. My topic covered a quick look at SOA principles, how they related to ColdFusion, then introduced LiveCycle ES2. Apart from the slides below, I was able to build an application from scratch in just under 40 minutes, including an approval process with workflow, a common data [...]