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April 16, 2006

Want To Work On The Flex Team?

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?

Flex

April 16, 2006

ColdFusion Positions In California And Michigan

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...

Jobs

April 16, 2006

ColdFusion And IE Active Content Changes

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 On Consuming CF Web Services In VB

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 Posts Sliding Drawer Component

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.

Tumi Powered By ColdFusion

Tumi is a leading brand of high-end travel and business products (including luggage popular with frequent travellers). And the Tumi web site is powered by ColdFusion (and Fusebox).

And The Week's Nonsensical Reporting Award Goes To ...

Eric Lai of Computerworld for his story entitled "More Oracle users plumping for Linux". (I was unable to find the original story on Computerworld, but it has been echoed on Techworld.com and elsewhere). The story is about Oracle users wanting to consolidate servers and move to Linux. It also...

A Touch Of Microsoft Irony

My laptop is still out for repair, and Adobe IT sent me a temporary one so that I could at least connect to VPN and get some work done. Rather than configure Outlook on this temporary machine, I'm just using Outlook Web Access (the Exchange web interface). But here's the ironic part of all this,...

Dead Laptop

My primary laptop is dead. Well, not actually dead, but useless at this point. I had installed laptop encryption software, and everything seemed to be fine, but then it started blue-screening on startup. Hey, I guess that's one way to secure laptop contents! The Adobe IT folks are looking at it for...

Keeping On Top Of E-Mail Is Tough, Please Don't Make It Tougher

I get lots of e-mail. And I don’t mean SPAM (which I get even more of). I mean real e-mail, stuff that I need to read and lots that I need to reply to. This includes mail from co-workers, product teams, sales folks, customers, partners, readers of my books, and lots of end-users. And mailing...