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...
Two positions this week: InGenius Engineering (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is looking for a Flex developer for a 3 month contract. Requirements include strong Flex and ActionScript skills, as well as proficiency in Java and JavaScript. Contact Christina Danby . Fig Leaf (Washington, DC) is looking for...
It's official. The dates for MAX Tokyo are January 29-30, 2009. I hope to see you there (as well as in San Francisco and Milan ).
Check out the MAX introduction videos , and especially the last 1/4 of mine. ;-)
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