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March 16, 2009

JetBlue Promo Has Fun At Expense Of CEOs

Check out JetBlue's Welcome Bigwigs . ;-)

ADC Articles On Creating Updatable AIR Apps

Adobe AIR applications can be made to be self-updatable. Several months ago, fellow evangelist Mihai Corlan wrote an excellent getting-started article for the Adobe Developer Center entitled Using the Adobe AIR update framework which explains the basics of building updatable AIR apps, be they built...

Great Indian Developer Summit Knows Who The RIA Experts Are

Great Indian Developer Summit is one of the premier India tech conferences and events. And this year they are featuring a series of talks on Rich Internet Application development. The web site features rotating banners highlighting different speakers and sessions, and this is the banner...

ColdFusion RIA

March 14, 2009

ColdFusion Helps Calculate Wedding Costs

This one sent to me by Shane McMurray, founder of The Wedding Report, Inc. Cost of Wedding attempts to help couples budget and plan wedding costs. While the list of items that "are included in the average wedding cost or wedding budget" definitely raised my eyebrows, the site is simple, focused,...

Using CF

March 13, 2009

Updated Aptana Studio AIR Plug-In Now Available

The Adobe AIR team has announced that an update to the Aptana Studio plug-in for AIR development is now available. The update includes some pretty cool features, including an integrated JavaScript debugger, and tools for generating application security badges. An article on the debugger , complete...

AIR

March 12, 2009

ColdFusion Powers Health And Human Services Award Winning girlshealth.gov

girlshealth.gov was created to help girls (ages 10-16) learn about health, growing up, and issues they may face. It focuses on health topics that girls are concerned about and helps motivate them to choose healthy behaviors by using positive, supportive, and non-threatening messages. The site gives...

Using CF

March 11, 2009

ColdFusion Flex Roadshow in April

We're hosting an Adobe Roadshow focused on ColdFusion Flex integration. These are free events that run from 9:30am-2:00pm and focus on how Adobe solutions can help your organization create more efficient processes, more effective communications, and more engaging connections with customers, all...

ColdFusion Powered U.K. Government Site Wins Award

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...

Using CF

March 9, 2009

Flex Helps Catch A Thief!

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...

Kevin Hoyt And The Flex Vs. Silverlight Debate

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.