December 2, 2008
RTMFP (Real Time Media Flow Protocol - yep, we've moved from 3 and 4 letter acronyms to 5 letter acronyms!) was demonstrated at MAX, both in the Day 2 keynote and in the Sneaks. As demonstrated by Agent Steve in Milan and Agents D & D in San Francisco, RTMFP provides the ability to do direct...
December 2, 2008
This one seemed to fly beneath the radar, and I was unaware of it until it was mentioned on cf-talk. IntelliJ is an incredible Java IDE - in fact it is what most of the ColdFusion engineering team uses to build the product. And apparently, developer Valeria Nikolaenko has been working on a...
December 1, 2008
I mentioned the Cocomo app created by Serge Jespers and Andrew Shorten. The app was "Paparazzi Central" to be used by paparazzi to share tips with colleagues and upload photos to share with publishers all over the world. And of course Serge and Andrew created a series of images for use with the...
December 1, 2008
I can't read any of it myself, but, a RIA Day attendee has posted this detailed report in Polish. (The pictures are self explanatory).
December 1, 2008
It's early Tuesday morning in Milan. MAX Europe started yesterday with a keynote by Michele Turner and Mark Anders. The content was similar to the U.S. keynote, but with local partners and examples highlighted. The Fiat AIR app in particular was a thing of beauty, and the crowd loved the Cocomo...
November 30, 2008
You'd think a keynote is a keynote is a keynote. Once it's been done once, then recreating it elsewhere should be a cinch, right? Unfortunately, it never works that way. And right now folks are scurrying around backstage, checking and testing and tweaking and fine-tuning and ... 15 minutes or so to...
November 29, 2008
I am in the Milano Convention Centre here in Milan, Italy, location for MAX Europe 2008 . We're sitting backstage, working on keynotes, tweaking demos, figuring out staging, and waiting (MAX keynote prep work involves lots of hurry-up-and-wait time). MAX Europe attendance has exceeded that of last...
November 27, 2008
Two ColdFusion positions this week: Unnamed client (Chicago, IL) is looking for a ColdFusion developer with at least 1-2 years of experience. Requirements include HTML, JavaScript and SQL skills, as well as familiarity with version and source control. Experience with Java and C/C++ a plus. Contact...
November 26, 2008
I just arrived in Wroclaw , 4th largest city in Poland, home to about 650,000, and the location for RIA Day 2008 today. I am presenting an opening session as well as a session on data services. Other sessions are covering Flash, Flex, AIR, and ColdFusion. We're still a couple of hours from start...
November 25, 2008
As a follow up to my MAX session on data services, an attendee e-mailed me to ask me to explain the differences between the various connectivity options supported by LCDS and BlazeDS. I replied with a link to a post entitled BlazeDS and LCDS: Channels, Channels Everywhere on Damon Cooper's blog,...