U.K. based OWL allows police to work with neighborhood watch groups, communicating directly with the public via email, phone, fax, SMS, print, and publishing to the OWL website. It features a contact management system to manage tens of thousands of contacts, and it ties into the Royal Mail...
Last week, Adobe Platform Evangelist James Ward , attended the Java Posse Roundup 2009 conference in Colorado. James just wrote up a report on this trip, and I just had to share the following excerpt (this is a straight copy and paste, no editing): The highlight of the trip was a lightning talk...
Last month, Cal Poly Pomona hosted our own Kevin Hoyt and a Microsoft evangelist for a Flex vs. Silverlight debate. A video of the event is now online, and here is a comment posted by one of the attendees.
Five positions this week, a mixture of ColdFusion and Flex, and 3 in NC: Unnamed healthcare client (Charlotte, NC) is looking for 2 senior Flex developers, one a full time position and the other a contractor. Strong Java skills needed, as is experience with web technologies, Oracle, Struts,...
David Aden has written a really good article for Government Technology entitled Open Source -- Is it Free? . This is not a technical article, rather it focuses on business decisions, and measuring the true cost of "free". David presents the arguments clearly and fairly, and this one is worth the...
This evening I presented a sneak peak at the next ColdFusion to a joint session of the Tampa Flash, Flex and AIR Developers Group and the Tampa ColdFusion User Group . The really cool thing about this event was that 2/3 of the audience were not ColdFusion users, and several commented that now they...
Title says it all. Go to the MAX 2009 Call for Sessions and Labs page to propose content for MAX 2009 in Los Angeles, CA.
U.K. based Banilla has created a ColdFusion based e-commerce system called BanillaStore. You can try it at this demo store site .
I am supposed to be talking about ColdFusion Powered Flex at an Adobe Day in Boston, MA, tomorrow. But, all of today's flights from Detroit to Boston thus far have been canceled, and with Boston expecting more snow in the next 24 hours the odds of getting in and out on time are pretty slim. So, I...
Fig Leaf is now offering a one-day bring-your-own-laptop class on Dreamweaver CS4. Details have been posted online .