CNet is running a story entitled New players enliven open source summarizing important open source announcements and projects of 2007, stating that "In 2007, much of the open-source action happened outside the corridors of the usual corporate suspects." The story then lists several companies and...
CFWACK 8 Volume 3 - Advanced Application Development is now shipping (I received my copies a few days ago). Some of the new content includes server monitoring, .NET integration, working with data feeds, and more. More details on the book page .
The ColdFusion 8 edition of the ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit is now 1800 pages in 3 volumes. And that was not enough space for all we had cover. So, an additional 678 pages of content were published electronically in PDF form, and may be freely downloaded (whether or not you buy the...
The 2007 CFeMmys have been announced, and RIAForge has won for Best Community Site. Ray Camden gets much of the credit for this one, as he did the bulk of the work creating RIAForge and continues to do all maintenance and management. Still, as RIAForge was my idea (and I was the one who roped Ray...
Flex and LCDS positions available this week: Makana Solutions, Inc. (Lexington, MA) is looking for a Sr. User Interface Engineer for Flex development. Requirements include BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience, 7+ years experience developing and launching products, experience with...
Kevin Hoyt has updated his extensive collection of Ajax based AIR applications for AIR Beta 3 .
ILOG Elixir is a collection of UI components for Flex 3 and AIR . Included is an org chart, interactive gauges, map displays, charts, and more. You absolutely must check out the demos, and you can download a pre-release version, too. Very impressive stuff!
The alpha of Flex Builder 3 for Linux is up on labs .
eWeek has a story on user reactions to Ruby on Rails 2.0. It contains the following quote (from a Baltimore based software development company): "We are engaged to build the Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Management System, and after experimenting with the usual suspects - J2EE [Java 2 Platform,...
Two positions this week, a ColdFusion position in MI, and a Flex position in CA: Decypher Corp (Berkley, MI) is looking for a senior ColdFusion developer with at least 3 years of experience. Requirements include strong ColdFusion background (CFMX7 or later preferred), as well as experience with SQL...