I've been debating posting this for the past few days. But, as it does not really disclose anything more than has been publicly discussed as of late (on this blog and elsewhere), and as it actually makes useful suggestions pertaining to securing ColdFusion (specifically from SQL injection attacks),...
The use of as a means to enhance the security of ColdFusion applications (and also deliver a side benefit of improved performance) has long been advocated. But, judging by the number of sites that have been compromised by a recent spate of SQL injection attacks (that may in fact be targeting .cfm...
LiveCycle Data Services 2.6 (aka LiveCycle Data Services ES Update 1 has been released. Release notes have also been posted .
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 ).