Here is some more information about the first public beta release of Flex 3 (now available on Adobe labs), the first major deliverable for the open source Flex project (including a public bug base, and the beginning of public nightly builds) ... Some of the new features in Flex Builder 3 are:...
Manjukiran Pacchhipulusu is a ColdFusion QA Lead, and he's blogging on CF8 features. Bhakti Pingale is also on the ColdFusion QA team, and she's blogging on ColdFusion 8 Ajax functionality.
Create an AIR (formerly Apollo) application, enter it into the Adobe AIR Developer Derby, and you could win the trip of a lifetime - a travel certificate valued at up to US$100,000, to be used for the travel of your choice! Other cool prizes too. Details online .
Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), formerly known as Apollo, is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing web development skills to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop. And you can get it right now on Labs .
Yep, the Flex 3 beta is now available for download from Labs.
Three positions this week: MasterControl (Salt Lake City, UT) is looking for a ColdFusion developer. Requirements include at least 2 years of ColdFusion experience. MasterControl is also looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer to test, among other things, ColdFusion applications. Contact Amy Esser...
I just saw the ColdFusion 8 public beta download numbers for the first week since it went up on Labs. I can't share actual numbers, but I can tell you that in that first week we had more downloads than what we had expected overall for the entire public beta period! Awesome!
Mark Drew has posted CF8 syntax dictionaries for CFEclipse , giving Eclipse awareness of and support for the CFML changes and enhancements in CF8.
With lots of help and prodding from our own Ray Camden , Yahoo has launched a ColdFusion Developer Center .
My local paper, the Detroit Free Press, is running a wonderful story that should be read by educators everywhere. Bradford Academy is a local charter school serving 1100 students in kindergarten through eighth grade. A year or so ago, 75 seventh graders were given the opportunity to turn school...