Flex Data Services provide rich data management and messaging capabilities. But what if you are not using a Flash client? What if you are using good old JavaScript, including Ajax type clients? Well, as first sneaked at MAX in Las Vegas, now JavaScript clients can leverage FDS using Ajax Data...
Ray Camden just noted that he posted an update to RIAForge to support screenshots of which thumbnails are automatically generated. How did he perform this magic? By running RIAForge on a prerelease version of Scorpio (and no, that's not usually allowed, but we love Ray, or so we'd like him to...
I will be in Brussels next month for meetings with the European Commission (the largest ColdFusion customer in Europe). While I am there I'll have the opportunity to chat with ColdFusion developers, and to sneak some Scorpio . The event is scheduled for February 14th, and registration is required .
The Flex team would like you to fill in a survey about Flex use .
For about a decade now, my ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit has been the de facto standard used by virtually all new ColdFusion developers, and by many who want to brush up their skills as ColdFusion is updated and enhanced. This book (and its Advanced sequel ) in many ways helped define...
Adobe User Research is researching work flows and functions of Dreamweaver by holding two Focus Groups in our San Francisco office on Monday, January 29th (next week). We know your time is valuable, so in addition to free parking, food and Adobe-branded gifts, we will also pay our participants $75...
Two Flex-related technologies/utilities were just posted to Labs : Flex Ant Tasks provides a convenient way to build your Flex projects using an industry-standard build management tool. Flex Compiler Shell provides a shell environment that you use to compile Flex applications, modules, and...
Troy Pullis noted that TiVo Investor Relations page is powered by ColdFusion. Actually, it looks like TiVo (like many other companies) uses shareholder.com to publish investor information, and shareholder.com is powered by ColdFusion MX7. Still, good to see .cfm pages on the TiVo site, thanks Troy!
Adobe is looking for experienced developers (including ColdFusion developers specifically) to join an advisory panel dedicated to the next major version of Flex and beyond. If you are interested, fill in the online application . Selected panel respondents will have the opportunity to provide...
I've read and reread this blurb several times, and am not sure I get it. But as per this story , 400 developers were surveyed by Evans Data about development languages, and Flex was rated highest when it comes to security.