A week or so ago I did something foolish, I installed Vista on my primary laptop. Ok, so foolish may be a bit strong, after all, I did take precautions. Rather than upgrade my existing machine, I bought a new hard drive and installed Vista on that (so that my old configuration remained intact, just...
Wow, this is Labs week! Newly posted to Labs is Flex Data Services 2.5, now known as LiveCycle Data Services. Go get it !
Adobe is conducting a series of site visits in the San Francisco Bay Area over the next couple of weeks, and here is your opportunity to give your feedback to our researchers. We are looking for people who are working full-time with web technologies. If this describes you, please fill out this...
I usually only post these once a week, on Friday's. But this ColdFusion opportunity at an organization we all love so dearly, well, it's too good to wait, so ... Mozilla (home of Firefox and Thunderbird) is looking for a freelance ColdFusion developer who can design, develop, and deploy a set of...
In honor of the free posting of the Apollo alpha on Adobe Labs, lynda.com is making a 14 part online Apollo training course by Mike Chambers (almost an hour of content) totally free to the community.
Now that Apollo has been released to Labs , you may be itching to learn more. Well, Luis Polanco, Senior Product Manager for Apollo, will be presenting an e-seminar on Apollo on Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at 12:00pm East Coast time (9:00am West Coast). Details and registration info are online .
Apollo, the cross-OS runtime that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, Ajax) to build and deploy desktop RIA's, is available for download from Labs .
The MAX 2007 site is up, with dates and locations for all three MAX events. Not a lot of info there yet, but there is a link for you to suggest topics (you have until April 10th, 2007 to do so).
My most recent book, MySQL Crash Course , has just been released in Italian by McGraw-Hill Informatica. Information on this book, and a link to the new Italian edition, are on the book page. The full list of non-English editions of my books is at http://forta.com/books/intl.cfm .
Another Labs release, this time an update to the XMP Toolkit . XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) is a labeling technology used to embed metadata within media files. The XMP Toolkit allows developers to programmatically access metadata in AVI, EPS, INDD, JPEG, MOV, MP3, MPEG, PNG, PS, PSD, TIFF,...