December 9, 2008
The LinkedIn Flex Developers Group is full! Apparently, LinkedIn groups can have 3000 members, and that's how many the group now has. I have over 50 requests to join pending approval, and can't approve them. I have pinged LinkedIn Customer Services to ask if there is a way to raise that limit, but...
December 9, 2008
I'm always looking for my next phone. My BlackJack II has served me well, and continues to do so. The biggest flaws with it are the lack of Wi-Fi, and the GPS being painfully slow to initialize, so slow that it is barely usable. But, those faults aside, I have been pretty happy with the device....
December 8, 2008
Government Technology is running a story about how the city of Tigard, OR, recently completed a 24-month enterprise GIS implementation resulting in a centralized corporate geodatabase environment used by the police department, public works, community development, and more. Part of the solution is...
December 8, 2008
Former ColdFusion team member, Mike Brunt, has written an article for the Adobe Developer Connection entitled Using ColdFusion to enhance scalability and high availability . Mike covers high availability concepts, hardware considerations, clustering, and more. This one is well worth the read.
December 7, 2008
I'm not a big fan of IT analysts, and have noted so previously. I find that far too many of them are all opinion and no experience, tossing supposed expertise around with little to back it up and even less transparency, and in doing so often actually impacting buying and deployment decisions. Now...
December 7, 2008
Monochrome is a UK based RIA development and consultancy firm. And Monochrome's Neil Middleton explains Why Monochrome Uses ColdFusion .
December 6, 2008
I've posted some pics of MAX Europe in Milan, Italy, last week.
December 5, 2008
The week before MAX Europe in Milan, I spent a few days in Poland. This was my first trip to Poland, and I got to meet customers, partners, and local Adobe personnel, as well as present at an RIA Day event. One evening, Tadeusz Chelkowski and Piotr Walczyszyn gave me a quick tour of the city. The...
December 3, 2008
What an emotional roller coaster. We've just wrapped two phenomenally successful MAX events (in San Francisco and Milan) and are all on something of a high ... And then Adobe announces layoffs and organizational changes in response to the worsening economy. Goodbye high, hello sobering reality....
December 2, 2008
I got the chance to chat with Simon Bisson at MAX Milan, and he shares his thoughts over at IT Pro on the future of ColdFusion in a piece entitled The ColdFusion Renaissance .