eWeek is running an article entitled Picking the Perfect Tablet: 10 Must-Have Features . Here's item #9: 9. Flash Support Adobe's Flash has been panned by Apple as a potential security risk that the company's iOS platform doesn't need. But further inspection of Flash running on Android OS reveals...
Multiple US based ColdFusion positions this week: Sacramento County Office of Education (Sacramento, CA) is looking for 2 senior ColdFusion developers. Requirements include strong current ColdFusion skills, as well as experience with SQL Server, CSS, JavaScript, and Fusebox (or other ColdFusion...
ColdFusion 9 exposes core features as services that may be consumed by other languages, servers, and clients. (I explained this ColdFusion as a Service feature in a post last year). This includes Flash applications, as ColdFusion engineering team member Rakshith Naresh explains in a new ADC article...
RIM has just announced the company's first tablet. The PlayBook runs BlackBerry Tablet OS, and also supports full Flash 10.1 for uncompromised web browsing. And Adobe Labs has just posted a Flash Platform Development for BlackBerry Tablet OS page to help you prep for this new device and platform.
I'm hosting a game-show we're calling "Are You Smarter Than An Evangelist?" at MAX this year. And I need your help with this one.
The folks over at Appcelerator have posted an interesting summary of a survey of their developers regarding mobile OS priorities. What makes it interesting is that Appcelerator facilitates development on desktop OSs as well as iOS and Android, so (you'd assume that) they'd not be overly biased...
I am not a big fan of comparing technologies using simple performance tests. These tend to never convince the naysayers, they make fans sound rabid at times, and the tests themselves are always called into question. So, I held my applause when reading recent articles comparing Flash and HTML5 (...
You visit RIAForge regularly, right? Good! Well, now you have 1,000 reasons to visit. Yep, yesterday Ray Camden announced that RIAForge is now hosting 1,000 projects (over 80% of them ColdFusion related)! Awesome!
As per Wikipedia, WebSocket is a technology providing for bi-directional, full-duplex communications channels, over a single Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) socket, designed to be implemented in web browsers and web servers but can be utilized by any client or server application. Nathan Mische...
MAX 2010 early bird registration closed last week. But, group discounts are still available for three or more attendees from the same company. And as they did last year , the MAX team has graciously allowed me to create a group of my own, a "Friends of Ben" group, which can qualify for the group...