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July 30, 2008

Jayesh Viradiya Is Blogging

And another ColdFusion engineering team member has started blogging, this time Jayesh Viradiya who plans to cover ColdFusion, Flex, AIR, and more.

Dr. Dobb's Running RIA Story By Joe Rinehart

Joe Rinehart has written an article for Dr. Dobb's entitled Building RIAs on J2EE Foundations . Joe explains RIA development from a very ColdFusion and Flex centric view of the world, and walks through an example in detail. Nice job, Joe!

On My Way To Lansing

I'm about to head out to Lansing to present at , my shortest commute for any FlexCamp to date. I'll be covering Flex, AIR, LiveCycle Data Services, BlazeDS, and of course some ColdFusion.

Check Out AIRmikan, The AIR Based Japanese Virtual Pet

Here's a fun AIR app for you, AIRmikan , from Fuji Television Network. What is AIRmikan? Well, I could never describe it as well as the following quote from the AIRmikan page : Airmikan is desktop virtual pets of digital comic [mikan seijin gril], which is based on Adobe AIR. This Airmikan is...

We've Added A MAX ColdFusion Security Session

With the recent spate of hacking attempts targeting ColdFusion sites, we've added a much needed MAX session entitled "Hack-Proofing Your ColdFusion Powered Sites". Scott Stroz will present the session which is not listed on the MAX site yet, but will be shortly.

Microsoft Relying On Flash To Help Sell Vista

I like Vista. I've said it before , and will say it again, Windows Vista works for me, and works well. But, it's no secret that Microsoft has run into problems convincing the masses to really give Vista a try. And so Microsoft is trying something creative, a fun campaign named the Mojave Experiment...

AMF Preferred

As a general rule, you want to be using AMF for communication between Flash Player on the client (running a Flash or Flex app) and your back-end server (unless you need messaging and push and data management services, in which case LiveCycle Data Services is what you'll want). Lee Brimelow explains...

Sandeep Paliwal Is Blogging

ColdFusion engineering team member Sandeep Paliwal is now blogging .

Adobe TV Step-By-Step ColdFusion Powered Flex

Adobe TV has posted a recording I did on building ColdFusion powered Flex applications. The video, entitled Building Flex Applications Powered By ColdFusion , is one of the longer Adobe TV sessions, and walks through the concepts, building the CFC back-end, coding the Flex client, retrieving data,...

Oh AVG, Why Oh Why Did You Succumb To Temptation?

I've been a fan of AVG Anti-Virus for a long time. I recommend it to friends and family, have installed the free version countless times, and have a paid multiple computer license for my home network. I used to use Norton AntiVirus, but that was a long time ago. I abandoned that product in...