It's been a while since I last mentioned Amethyst, SapphireSteel's Visual Studio based IDE for Flex and ActionScript. SapphireSteel has just announced the launch of Amethyst 2, with lots of new features including support for Flash based (non-Flex) form creation.

Yep, it's true, we're hosting a dedicated ColdFusion Summit this year. The Summit will be at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on October 24th and 25th, and registrtaion will be $250. More details coming soon.

Raymond Camden has been digging into JavaScript design patterns. His latest post in the serires is a great disucssion of The Revealing Module Pattern.

John Nack has posted his thoughts on our recent Creative Cloud announcements. This one is an interesting read, including the comment threads.

The ColdFusion team has released a hotfix for the security alert mentioned last week. This issue affects ColdFusion 10.x and 9.x on all platforms.