RIAdventure is a ColdFusion / Flex / AIR conference and event, on a Bahamas cruise. Yep, you read that right, you get to use your favorite languages and tools while enjoying the Bahamas - and the price is really good, too!
Doug Hughes has written an introductory article entitled Adobe ColdFusion for the Web Developer for HTML Goodies. And he's planning follow up articles, too.
Yesterday I had to (once again) ping Tom Jordahl for help in figuring out exactly what to pass to a particular funky Web Service. And of course, Tom had the answer for me, as he always does. But this time he went a step further and blogged about Using WSDL2Java to figure out CFML arguments to a Web...
We're hosting a new series of ColdFusion Webinars in July, 4 sessions in all of 4 different topics. ColdFusion Product Marketing Manager Kristen Schofield has posted details , and you can register online .
David Tucker purchased a copy of ColdFusion for personal use with his own funds. He look at the alternatives, even free/cheap alternatives, and bought ColdFusion. And over on InsideRIA he tells why .
ColdFusion 8 includes LiveCycle Data Services 2.5, and the instructions we've provided on getting CF to use the about-to-be-released LCDS 2.6 leave much to be desired. Joshua Rodgers has written a superb step-by-step post on getting this all working. [Via Ryan Stewart ].
I previously mentioned the BBC adopting AIR for widgets, but this little nugget in the paidContent story is worth highlighting: "In October [the BBC] signed a technology deal with Adobe to adopt its Flash [for video]... finally axing Microsoft's WMV and Real's video formats in favour of embedded...
The BBC has been using Microsoft technologies for widgets that are used by "hundreds of thousands of users". And they have just publicly stated that they have dumped the Microsoft solution for an Adobe AIR one. paidContent has posted details, too.
The Flex SDK is open source, and the community is encouraged to submit code and fix bugs. And as an extra incentive to contribute bug fixes, the Flex SDK team is offering to buy books from your Amazon.com wish list, a book for each 3 bugs fixed. Details posted online .
Adobe has announced new technologies that will allow SWF content to be indexed and searchable, not just text in the SWF, but also data generated programmatically and at runtime. Lots of good info in the SWF Searchability FAQ . Google is the first to leverage this new ability, and some great...