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November 12, 2007

MapQuest AS3 APIs

MapQuest has opened up their AS3 APIs for developer use. You need to register to gain access. Our pals at Universal Mind were instrumental in creating the APIs . Check out this demo .

I have finally gotten around to updating the On The Road list and pictures. Lots of new pictures have been posted, including this one taken last week while climbing The Great Wall of China. Hey, this evangelism gig is a sacrifice, but I am willing to do it. ;-)

ColdFusion XMPP Support Updated

ColdFusion 7 and 8 includes an XMPP gateway, used for IM communication (to Jabber, Google Talk, and more). An update to the XMPP gateway is now available (for both ColdFusion 7 and 8), as explained in TechNote: Replacement file for XMPP Gateway .

Positions In RI And NC

Three positions to post this week, two development positions and one management position: APC (Providence, RI) is looking for a web development team leader to manage teams and projects doing ColdFusion development. BS in Computer Science and at least 4+ year experience in a senior level web...

CFEclipse Article On IBM developerWorks

Jim Priest has written a great article on CFEclipse for IBM developerWorks entitled Code ColdFusion applications fast with the Eclipse CFEclipse plug-in .

Converting ColdFusion Web Apps To AIR Apps

As I mentioned earlier this week, building AIR applications using HTML and JavaScript is pretty simple (arguably easier than doing so in MXML/AS for those of us with a web background). But how do you port a ColdFusion powered web app to be an AIR app? One simple solution is not to. After all, you...

ColdFusion On OSX Leopard And 64bit

Lots of you have been asking for official ColdFusion support for OSX Leopard. And lots of you have also been asking for a 64bit version of ColdFusion (currently only 64bit Solaris is supported). The good news is that we are working on both. I can't give you a release date yet, but ... stay tuned...

Kristen Schofield Is Blogging

Kristen Schofield, ColdFusion's new Product Marketing Manager, is blogging .

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November 5, 2007

Getting Started With HTML/JavaScript AIR Applications

I am in Shanghai, staying overnight here and then flying back to the US tomorrow morning. I am in the Yuyuan (Yu Garden) area, and the skyline view is absolutely breathtaking. This morning (in Hangzhou) I demonstrated building AIR applications using just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. And afterwards I...

In Hangzhou To Present On Flex And AIR

I am in Hangzhou , a beautiful city 100 miles or so from Shanghai. State Street and Zhejiang University are hosting the annual International Conference on Information Technology for Financial Services (ICITFS) here, and I'll be presenting a session on Flex and AIR tomorrow.