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At MAX 2008 in San Francisco, we announced the date and venue for MAX 2009 . Lots of you have been asking about plans for Europe this year, and we were unable to respond while we went over the numbers to try and make things work. Unfortunately, MAX Europe 2009 has fallen victim to the economic...
Adobe is looking for ColdFusion users with minimal Flex experience to take part in a research study. You'll need to be available for 2 hours on April 2nd in our San Francisco office, and you'll get paid $150 for the session. If interested, please fill in this survey .
SapphireSteel has announced the release of beta 4 of Amethyst, their Flex plug-in for Visual Studio .NET. New to this release are snippets for ActionScript and MXML plus a dedicated snippet editor, context-sensitive help on Flex classes and methods, and a slew of other improvements.
Barney Boisvert has announced the official release of CFGroovy 1.0 . CFGroovy is a way to leverage the Groovy language from CFML, and it also provides a plug-in for enabling Hibernate support.
The HP Web Security Research Group has released HP SWFScan , a free security tool to help developers find security vulnerabilities in applications developed with the Adobe Flash Platform. HP found that developers building applications with the Flash Platform often leave security vulnerabilities...
Coming out of MIX last week, The Register's Tim Anderson has posted a story on how Flash is helping to define Silverlight features and direction, and he focuses specifically on comparing Adobe AIR to Silverlight 3 running outside of the browser. This one is an interesting read.
Just one this week: Unnamed client (San Francisco, CA) is looking for a ColdFusion developer for a 12 month contract. Requirements include knowledge with Mach-II or other MVC framework, and experience with J2EE technology stack. Contact recruiter Manoj Naidu at Aditi Staffing.
Our partners at HD Interactive have posted a report on the Tampa usergroup meeting that several of us attended a couple of weeks ago.
The ColdFusion 8 project-based curriculum is designed to teach web developers how to create dynamic, database-driven web applications using ColdFusion 8. Two courses are available for the download, "Introduction to ColdFusion 8", and "Advanced ColdFusion 8 Development". These can be used in...