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!
Sho Kuwamoto has posted links to Adobe job openings on the Flex team (6 in the U.S. and 3 in India). We're looking for developers, QA engineers, architects, and more. Interested?
It's been a while since I posted any of these, so no complaints please! ;-) San Diego, CA: Three ColdFusion contractors needed, ColdFusion MX, Fusebox, MySQL. Contact Curtis Kaffer at RT Consulting & Development. Brighton, MI: Mid-level ColdFusion developer needed. Contact Michael Ewles at...
The Active Content Developer Center contains information and links pertaining to the changes in Internet Explorer and how this affects active content (including Flash) used in web pages. But what about ColdFusion generated Flash, as in Flash Forms where ColdFusion generates the Flash and embeds it...
ASP Free.com is running a beginners tutorial on using Web Services in VB6 , demonstrating how to invoke ColdFusion Web Services from Visual Basic code.
Sho Kuwamoto has posted a Flex component he calls Sliding Drawer , a panel that slides into view with mouseover (think auto-hide in Windows taskbar). Source code and demo included.