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.
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).
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...
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,...