Notes from the Flex Flash and ColdFusion Trenches - ajax

CFUnited Europe, AJAXWorld, and more conference stuff...

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:53:00 -0400

Next week I'm off to London to speak at CFUnited Europe, and the following week, I'll be speaking at AJAX World East. In both places, I'll be speaking about the joy that is Flex 3 in all its forms. The CFUnited talk is more focused on how Flex can improve the lives of CF Developers, while the AJAX World one is more focused on how Flex can help RIA developers increase their real world Retursn On Investment from RIA's. On another note, CFUnited has just released the session schedule for their Washington DC Conference in June, and rumor is that the session schedule for WebManiacs should be available shortly.

A Great big pile of public beta's from Adobe

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:39:00 -0400

Today, Adobe has released 3 new public beta's on Adobe Labs: The Adobe Integrated Runtime (formerly known as Apollo) beta, the Flex 3 Beta, and the Flash Player Updater were all publicly released on Labs today. I've been recovering from a failed hard drive all day (remind me to post a blog about the wonders of SpinRite 6.0 when i get a minute), but I'll post more about all 3 of these, as well as the ColdFusion 8 (Scorpio) beta released 2 weeks ago, when i get a few minutes.

CFUnited Scheduler released

Fri, 04 May 2007 16:55:00 -0400

While the blog was down last week, the CFUnited Scheduler was launched. This is a cool little AJAX app, which lets you figure out which sessions you want to attend. You can browse the sessions by time, by presenter, or by track. If you are going to CFUnited this year ( a must for all ColdFusion Developers ), this is an invaluable tool!

By the way, I'll be presenting my topic "Flex 2 for ColdFusion Developers" Thursday and Saturday, both days at 8:30 am.

See you there.

Public Alpha of Apollo now available on Adobe Labs

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:40:00 -0400

Since it was mentioned and demo'd at the MAX conference in Las Vegas last year, I've been incredibly excited about the upcoming Apollo product from Adobe. Apollo promises to allow web developers to build real desktop applications, using technologies we know today, namely HTML, JavaScript, MXML and ActionScript.

If your interested in learning more, you can find the bits and more information on Adobe Labs.