I am at FOSE (the biggest annual government related IT trade show) in Washington, DC. Adobe has a large presence here - a booth with a theatre and five demonstration pods, and a training room offering ongoing 1 hour long hands-on lab sessions on a variety of subjects. I've been running a Flex...
Mike Hillyer is a member of the MySQL AB documentation team. He just posted a short review on my MySQL Crash Course , stating that it is "an excellent book for the beginning users just getting started with MySQL and perhaps SQL in general." Thanks, Mike!
As per the Flex Framework:FABridge page: "The Flex Ajax Bridge (FABridge) is a small, unobtrusive library of code that you can insert into a Flex application, a Flex component, or even an empty SWF file to expose it to scripting in the browser." Details and examples of this Ely Greenfield goodie...
This one has been all over the new sites recently, a story about Crossdogs.com , an online service catering to independent artists. Check out this paragraph For computer geeks interested in how it's all put together, the interface Crossdogs.com members use to create their online press material is a...
Google Page Creator is now in beta.
Mike Potter has posted links to sample code that shows how to invoke LiveCycle components from within ColdFusion, as well as an interview with a ColdFusion developer who has done just that and more.
The Adobe Developer Relations team has released a set of free and open ActionScript 3.0 APIs to help developers get started building Flex 2.0 applications. This include FlexUnit (a unit testing framework for Flex and ActionScript 3.0 applications), Flickr, Mappr (combines images from Flickr with...
TechBookReport has posted a review of my MySQL Crash Course , and concluded that "If you want to learn SQL and aim to implement your database using MySQL then this is definitely the book to use".
I presented Flex 2 to the Chicago ColdFusion user group this evening. This has always been a great group to talk to, a lively and very interactive bunch, and the conversation and questions were right on target. I fly to Minneapolis first thing tomorrow morning for a midday session there. Details on...
I'm on the way down to Kansas City to present "Flex 2 for ColdFusion developers" to the KCFusion user group. This group is consistently once of the best attended, so this evening's event should be lively and fun. If you are in the area, please drop by.