ColdFusion 8 books now available! 10-Mar-10 Flash Player A Hog? Not Necessarily   Lately, some (okay, someone) have accused Flash of being a resource hog. And lots of others have jumped on the bandwagon, without actually having performed any real tests or gathered any real data. But Jan Ozer has been doing just that, and has posted all of the details online. Streaming Media has posted their summary as well. 09-Mar-10 Google Public Data Explorer Features Flash Charting   Title says it all. Some really nice Flash charting examples. Check it out. Amex: Make Your Passwords Secure, Just Not Too Secure   I reset online passwords regularly (as should everyone). And I approve of password restrictions (minimum lengths, no reuse, at least one digit and one uppercase, etc.). But, as you can see in this validation screen, American Express apparently does not want passwords to be *too* secure! FAIL! FlashCamp Coming To Boston   FlashCamp is coming to Boston next week on Friday, March 19th, 2010 at 5:00pm. This is a free event with limited space, and the speaker lineup is pretty phenomenal, and includes Deepa Subramaniam, Heidi Williams, Doug Winnie, Chet Haase, ColdFusion's own Alison Huselid, as well as presenters from Zend and more. Registration required, so sign up now. HP Slate Allows Access To ALL Of The Internet   Who says you can't have it all? Check out this YouTube video showing the web, Flash and AIR on an upcoming HP slate device: Also, see this Wired story. [more]   ColdFusion Usergroup Presentation - Amsterdam, Netherlands 10-Mar-10   Usergroup presentation on ColdFusion 9, ColdFusion Builder, and Flash Builder 4. Free event, but registration required. Adobe Flash Platform Summit - Beijing, China 21-Apr-10 -22-Apr-10   I visited China several times last year, and am planning multiple trips this year, too. China is home to the second largest population of Flash and Flex developers, and it's high time those developers had the opportunity to take part in a full-blown Flash Platform conference of their own. So I am excited that we're hosting a 2-day Adobe Flash Platform Summit, a mini-MAX of sorts, in Beijing. The exact agenda and speaker list is still being worked out, but I do plan on attending, and am really looking forward to the event! 2010 Creative Suite Developer Summit - Seattle, WA 03-May-10 -06-May-10   The Creative Suite Developer Summit is geared towards assisting Enterprise and In-House IT staff in their efforts to use Adobe Creative Suite Products to create information authoring and distribution solutions. The summit will focus specifically on tools and SDK's for Creative Suite, and is limited to 200 in-person attendees. This four-day conference is free to attend, and will be of most interest to strategic product planners, information architects and technical managers. I am scheduled to present a session on getting started with Flash Builder. CFUnited 2010 - D.C. Metro Area 28-Jul-10 -31-Jul-10   CFUnited is the premier ColdFusion & CFML specific conference. I've presented an opening keynote for several years, and plan to attend again this year. Adobe MAX 2010 - Los Angeles, CA 24-Oct-10 -27-Oct-10   For Adobe MAX 2010 we are heading back to Los Angeles where we hosted the wildly successful MAX 2009.

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