I presented a MegaLab hands-on session in San Francisco and Milan, and introduced lots of developers to data-services powered Flex and AIR apps. The session walked Windows and Mac developers through a dozen hands-on apps that started with basic data integration and worked all the way up to data...
Webmonkey is running an article by Sam Framer entitled Add Ajax to Your Site Using Adobe ColdFusion about, well, that should be obvious. Thanks for writing this, Sam!
Two positions this week, both in the Netherlands: Peoplexs (Rijswijk, Netherlands) is looking for two ColdFusion developers, one more experienced and one more junior. Details on both positions are posted online .
The Adobe LiveCycle team is now blogging at About LiveCycle ES .
During the MAX Japan keynote we announced that Adobe AIR has been installed 100 million times since it's release less than a year ago! We also announced that Flash Player 10 had been installed on 55% of computers in its first two months! TechCrunch also just reported the story.
Lee Brimelow has been watching too many James Bond movies. Or he's wishing that he'd been recruited by The Agency at MAX. Or he's trying to get in shape to replace Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible IV. Or ... Lee is planning on hiding copies of Create Suite 4 Master Collection (valued at over $3500)...
Michael Chaize is an Adobe Consultant in France, and he also teaches Flex in a school in Paris. He recently ran an "AIR Idol" contest for his students, and the apps they built are really impressive. The students have also published the applications they developed during 2008. Good stuff!
I previously mentioned Amethyst , SapphireSteel 's upcoming Flex Visual Studio plug-in. SapphireSteel has just posted a demo of their Visual Designer , an interactive Flex page layout UI that will be part of Amethyst Professional.
Fellow platform evangelist Lee Brimelow is a die-hard Flash user. But even Lee acknowledges that sometimes Flex is the best tool for the job, and he has just posted a video tutorial , targeted at Flash users, on getting started with Flex.
TOP GUN (formerly WebManiacs) is Fig Leaf's new 3 day training event covering ColdFusion, Flex, and AIR. Top Gun runs June 8th-10th in Washington, DC, and is limited to 100 participants. Registration is now open, as is the call for papers .