I just arrived in beautiful Zürich. I've got a couple of meetings this afternoon, and then tonight I'll present "Flex 2 For ColdFusion Developers" to the Swiss ColdFusion User Group . If you happen to be in this part of the world, be sure to drop by. Details are on the group web page.
Read the Adobe Success Story on Global Training Technologies who built an innovative and powerful web based training solution using ColdFusion and Flex.
Check out Ryan Stewart's ZDNet blog posting on how a rich internet application helps MBA students pick classes at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Spry is a JavaScript framework for creating Ajax applications, a library that makes it easy to incorporate XML data into HTML pages using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Want to learn more? Paul Gubbay has written an introduction to Spry . Spry examples are posted on Labs. And you can download Spry from...
Builder.com is running a story by Andrew Muller on Flex 2 . Andrew gives a great overview of Flex, discusses AJAX, talks about Flex pricing, and more. Recommended reading.
Check out the JBoss Collaboration Server and the Flex based JBoss Mail Client effort.
I just received an e-mail message containing the following: ... When Flex first came out we were really excited, until we saw the price ... The new Flex 2 features and IDE look great, but unless Adobe addresses the price we'll still not be able to use it ... [Taking a big deep breath] Ok, let's go...
Flex beta 3 is now available for download from Adobe Labs . Download new versions of Flex Builder, Flex Data Services, Charting, Flash Player, the ColdFusion/Flex connectivity bits, and the sample applications. The ColdFusion updater updated ColdFusion to 7.0.2. In addition to the Flex connectivity...
Job details posted on the Brigham Young University Alumni Association site.
My MySQL Crash Course is reviewed in the May 2006 issue of Linux Magazine . The review concludes "If you want to quickly learn about MySQL essentials, get this book."