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May 15, 2008

Lee Brimelow On Getting Started With Flash Player 10

Fellow Adobe Evangelist Lee Brimelow has posted a video on how to get started with new Flash Player 10 functionality .

Toronto Flex Camp Data Services Presentation Roundup

Yesterday evening I presented a session on data services at a Flex Camp in Toronto. I ran through a series of demos (and ran over time, of course) and several attendees asked (repeatedly, both during the session and afterwards) for me to clarify which needed Data Services and which didn't, as well...

Flash Player 10 Beta On Labs

The beta of Flash Player 10 has been posted to Labs. New features include 3D visual effects, a new text rendering engine (which also supports right-to-left text), and more. Demos and videos have been posted, too.

John Farrar's ColdFusion 8 Book Due Out In August

Long time ColdFusion developer and community member John Farrar has written ColdFusion 8 Developer Tutorial which is due to be published in August 2008. Congratulations John, it's great to see another ColdFusion title, and I can't wait to see a copy.

Upcoming Events In Toronto And Washington

I'll be in Toronto on Thursday for Flex Camp , and in Washington, D.C., on Monday for the opening of WebManiacs . Registration is still open for both events.

AIR Appearances ColdFusion Flex

May 11, 2008

Flex Skin Design Extensions For CS3

When Flex 3 was launched a few months back, we also launched a series of extensions that can be used from within CS3 products to create Flex skins. These extensions (for Flash, Fireworks, Illustrator, and Photoshop) allow designers to skin controls which can then be imported into a Flex 3 project....

Amazon.com Loves My SQL In 10 Minutes Book

My Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes has been a top seller on Amazon.com for a long time, consistently in the top few hundred computer books and in the top couple of thousand across all books. But I was just informed that is #3 in the Databases category on Amazon.com, and #1 in Database...

ColdFusion ISP List Update And Maintenance

I've been doing some maintenance and code cleanup on my ColdFusion ISP List , and noticed that some entries have not been updated in years. If you know of any companies that are no longer in business, or who no longer offer ColdFusion hosting, or anything else I should be aware of, please let me...

Flex Renderers Can't Rely On creationComplete

Yesterday I wasted an hour or so debugging a Flex itemRenderer that I was using to display an image instead of a value in a DataGrid column. The renderer had to simply pick one of six images based on the column value, and so it contained a single tag and a function that set the Image source...

Check Out ColdBricks, A ColdFusion Based Open Source CMS

ColdBricks is a ColdFusion based CMS and site generator, and it's free and open-source. There's a very impressive live demo online, too. This one via fellow evangelist Serge Jespers .