I am in beautiful San Diego, and have parked myself in the local Adobe (former Macromedia) office to get some work done. I'll be presenting Flex 2 to the San Diego ColdFusion User Group tonight, details on the website. If you are in the area, drop by!
BoardFusion (the project formerly known as CfOpenBB) is a "project is to create a world-class open-source web-based message board application written in ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML). BoardFusion will be extremely full-featured, easily skinnable, and fully i18n ready." Matt Woodward is asking...
I'll be in Southern California next week, and will use the opportunity to present Flex 2 to the San Diego ColdFusion User Group on May 1st, 2006. Details will be on the site shortly.
I'll be presenting Flex 2 to the Swiss ColdFusion User Group in Zurich on May 15th, 2006. Details on the group site.
Every once in a while I run into customers running 64bit servers. This is far from a daily occurrence, but the frequency is increasing. And so, here's a question for you: Are you running 64bit servers yet? Do you plan to in the near future? If so, why, and what OS? And if not, why not?
Carsten Pedersen is MySQL Certification Manager, and he recently reviewed my MySQL Crash Course . He says that "book certainly lives up to it's name and does not waste the reader's time with any gentle introductions or long explanations" and concludes: Highly recommended for the beginning MySQL...
Flash Player 8.5 is a big deal - a new virtual machine, a new scripting language, dramatically improved performance ... and so Flash Player 8.5 is going to get the version number change it deserves, Flash Player 9 .
Katsuyuki Sakai has created JSON Serializer , a ColdFusion Component that serializes ColdFusion objects (struct, query, array, etc.) into JSON format objects.
CFDJ's Simon Horwith weighs in on ColdFusion, Flex, CF in the Adobe era, and more, stating that "this acquisition is the best thing that could have ever happened to ColdFusion". A worthwhile read.
The Flex Developer Derby is your chance to write cool Flex code and win sweet prizes (six chances to win a Xbox 360 and a 42" plasma TV to use it with). The deadline for the contest has been extended to May 31st - more time for you to create one of the winning entries!