I just confirmed that I'll be speaking at the upcoming FlexCamp on the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing on July 30th. I plan to present an opening session on Flex, AIR, Data Services, and more. For more details and registration information, see the FlexCamp site .
Glenda Vigoreaux has been part of the ColdFusion family for many years. She spoke at usergroups, was a highly regarded and requested trainer (and was the highest rated speaker at MAX one year), and was liked by all who knew her. She loved teaching, and considered motivating others her true passion....
Tim Anderson has written an article for The Register entitled Consume .NET services without Silverlight describing how he built a Flex app that uses a .NET back-end using Web Services. Thanks to Joel Stobart for bringing this one to my attention.
Adobe Platform Evangelist Serge Jespers (who has extensive Flash and Flex experience) took a 3 day Silverlight training class this week and has posted his thoughts in an entry entitled Silverlight: The good, the bad and the ugly .
J. Peter Bruzzese has written an article for InfoWorld entitled Trade-offs of open source in the enterprise , and uses ColdFusion as the example to demonstrate why both open source and paid commercial offerings are needed. OpenBD's Alan Williamson and Adam Haskell are both quoted in this story.
Long time ColdFusion/Flex/AIR/ etc. friend, Chong-Bing Liu (aka Bing) wrote an article comparing RIA trends (including Flex, Silverlight, JavaFX, and Curl) by using Google Trends. The original article is in Chinese , and he just just posted an English translation .
"Gumbo" is the codename for the next major version of the Flex SDK, and some details on Gumbo have been posted to the Adobe Open Source page (also see the Flex Team Blog ).
LinkUp is a job search site, and they currently have 244 ColdFusion related positions listed (at the time of this post). Thanks to Mike for bringing this to my attention.
China Open Source Labs (OSL) is a web development summer camp for Chinese university students. It features two tracks, one of which is dedicated to ColdFusion, Flex, and AIR. Visit the site to learn how you can help by submitting project ideas, mentoring, and more. Thanks to our partner John Zhu of...
Apple's new MobileMe service certainly sounds impressive, it delivers push functionality for the masses - your data is pushed up to your own storage spot in the cloud, and then automagically synced with your iPhone. Pretty cool. And it really works, kind of. It syncs contacts really well, and syncs...