Blog

March 28, 2004

Matt Chotin on Large Data Sets

Matt has jumped right into it with an excellent post on working with large data sets in Flex. See http://www.markme.com/mchotin/archives/004610.cfm.

Flex

March 28, 2004

Flex / ColdFusion Content

To help ColdFusion developers better understand Flex and what it means to them, I have posted: A Breeze presentation at http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/productinfo/brz_flex_and_coldfusion/. An article (containing both positioning and an example application) at...

To Learn More About Flex

As many have already noted, Flex 1.0 is now available. To learn more, check out: The Macromedia Flex page at http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/. The Flex Developer Center at http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flex/.

MXEurope Date Change

MXEurope, originally planned for September 2004, has been rescheduled for January 2005. Details at http://mxeurope.org/.

Matt Chotin Joins the BlogSphere

Matt Chotin, a software engineer on the Flex team, is now blogging at http://www.markme.com/mchotin/.

Flex

March 25, 2004

802.11 at 35,000 Feet

Online in the sky at last? CNET News.com is running a story (see http://news.com.com/2008-1032-5178988.html) about the resurrection of Internet access on airplanes (originally hyped 3 years ago). Initially, 802.11 in the plane (your notebook talking to an onboard access point), and then possibly a...

Netcraft: ColdFusion Use Ahead of ASP.Net and JSP/Servlets

Netcraft is running a story on how in March "the number of IP addresses with sites using ASP.NET has overtaken those using JSP and Java Servlets." But look at the graph seen on http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/03/23/aspnet_overtakes_jsp_and_java_servlets.html. It definitely shows ASP.NET on...

Another Great Spring

I attended Spring in Athens, OH, today, driving down from Detroit the night before and back up again right after I wad done (about 300 miles each way). I attended last year's event and was impressed by the quality and professionalism, and this year was just as good (perhaps better, thanks to an...

The Ever Present Need for ColdFusion

I spent the day on the show floor at FOSE, the Federal Government tradeshow in D.C. Lots of ColdFusion interest (as well as interest in Contribute, Flash, Breeze, Flex, and more). For me, the most important part of all the ColdFusion discussions and interaction was the reminder that ColdFusion must...

Oh, What a Geek I Am

After posting my last message I realized something. I am sitting in a restaurant, typing online via a wireless connection, and talking via a Bluetooth headset in my ear ... I feel like I am wearing a big badge with the word GEEK inscribed on it, a badge of honor indeed.