Yep, the name is a bit of a mouthful, but the "magnifica" part is quite appropriate. This little guy is a sea slug, a member of the nudibranch species, and he joined my fish tank on Friday. This Chromodoris Magnifica is about 2 inches long, with bright vibrant colors, and with bright orange gills...
Four this week: WellPoint (Indianapolis, IN) is looking for a ColdFusion developer with Flex experience. Requirements include proficiency in ColdFusion 8, as well as experience in object oriented development, Ajax, and more. Details posted online . Unnamed company (Rochester, NY) is looking for an...
Over the past couple of months, the Platform Evangelism team have been handing out free copies of Flex Builder 3 to developers who are out of work, the idea being that they could use their new free time to learn a new skill. We did not launch a full program for this, just a grassroots initiative...
Ted Patrick, aka Mr. MAX, has posted an entry explaining how sessions and content selections are going to work this year, building on a new process introduced for MAX 2008.
I am scheduled to be in Europe at the end of this month for customer and partner meetings. And while I am on the other side of the pond, I plan to use the opportunity to talk about ColdFusion and more (including "Centaur" and "Bolt") at public events in both London and Brussels. Here are the dates...
I generally avoid political discussions and debates on this blog. I have strong opinions about the economy, bailouts, executive bonuses, congressional hypocrisy, taxation, government intrusion, partisanship, and more. (I know, you are shocked that I have strong opinions!). And I am more than happy...
Yahoo! Sideline is an Adobe AIR desktop application built with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). It allows users to monitor Twitter by creating and grouping custom queries by topics of interest. It's a great example of an HTML/CSS/Ajax based AIR app, and lots of details have been posted on...
Brian Kai has created CF_REF , a CFML reference application for iPhone. [Via a post on the CFUnited blog].
Adobe and Facebook have just announced a new ActionScript 3 Client Library that can be used to build Facebook applications in Flash. The library is free and open source, and includes more than 60 new APIs designed to compliment current Facebook APIs to ensure seamless implementation. Details are...
SAP Community Network has created a new page with details on how to get started building rich clients for SAP applications. The Web Dynpro for ABAP framework in SAP NetWeaver 7.0 EhP1 provides new libraries that make it easy to add rich data visualization to your applications using the Flex...