Indiana University Bloomington will host the third annual BFusion and BFlex conferences, two days of hands-on training from experts in Adobe ColdFusion, Flex, AIR, and Flash Catalyst -- technologies used to rapidly build Rich Internet Applications.

   When: Saturday, October 24 (BFusion); Sunday, October 25 (BFlex)
   Where: Kelley School of Business

BFusion is a full day of hands-on ColdFusion training. It features a true beginners track, a beginners track for programmers new to ColdFusion, an intermediate track on framework-based development, and
other hands-on sessions for intermediate and advanced developers.

BFlex is a full day of hands-on Flash Platform development with Flex, AIR, Catalyst, and Flash Builder. It also features beginner and true beginner tracks, as well as hands-on sessions for intermediate and advanced developers. New this year is a track for designers looking to use Adobe Flash Catalyst for developing Rich Internet Applications.

This is a tremendous training opportunity, especially with the cuts in training and travel budgets. Some of the sessions being given at this event are the same sessions by the same speakers as were at Adobe MAX in LA last week for as much as $595 for the day of training. This event at IUB is $10/day and is open to students, faculty, staff and the general public.

I encourage you to point your developers to this opportunity. Send your designers too! There is a full day Flash Catalyst course on Sunday. This prerelease technology allows designers to take Illustrator and Photoshop comps and turn them into Rich Internet Applications (including cross-platform, network aware desktop AIR applications) without any programming.

So send your staff and come yourself. It is a great skill-building experience and wonderful candy for the brain!

For details and to register, visit the event web site:

   http://bflex.info/