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,...
Subject says it all, the pre-release version of Flash Player 9 for Solaris (both Sparc and x86 systems) has been posted to Labs.
Spring is next week, and it's not too late to sign up. Once again they've lined up top-notch speakers including fellow Adobians John Cummings and Kevin Hoyt, as well as Phillip Kerman, Rob Gonda, Joseph Lowery, Steve Drucker, Dan Switzer, and many other well known names. It's been a few years since...
Several ColdFusion positions to post this week, including one in Germany: REOTrans, LLC (Hawthorne, CA) is looking for a full-time ColdFusion developer. Requirements include 3+ years as a Senior Developer coding high traffic, mission critical, ColdFusion applications in a code managed development...
Now there is one less barrier to Flex experimentation and adoption. In addition to Flex Builder and the free Flex SDK, you can now write Flex code and compile it on the fly, just like you do ColdFusion (or ASP, JSP, and PHP). The Flex Module For Apache And IIS has been posted to Labs.
The Toronto CFUG is hosting a meeting tonight on server virtualization and consolidation. If you are not in the Toronto area you can still take part via Connect. Details posted by Ryan Favro (who will be presenting).