I just presented the first segment of the opening keynote at Adobe Developer Tech Day in Shanghai, China. Fellow evangelist Enrique Duvos is now on the stage wowing the audience with Stage 3D demos. This is a very technical audience, almost all online all the time. The interesting thing is that...
Adobe Edge is a new web motion and interaction design tool that allows designers to bring animated content to websites, using web standards like HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3. We first debuted Edge at MAX 2010, and we've now released Preview 1 on Adobe Labs . The plan is for Edge to be updated...
.net Magazine is running their annual .net Awards, and our own Matt Gifford is the only ColdFusion developer up for a .net Awards 2011 . Feel free to help him out, go vote (category 16, at the bottom).
A user emailed me to ask about installing ColdFusion when no desktop access is available (Telnet access, for example). I sent him this link describing Performing a silent installation of ColdFusion 9 , and am posting it here just so I have it the next time I need it.
The PolitiFact app has fast become the poster child for all that is great about Flash, Flex, and AIR. The app is useful, fun, responsive, supports multiple platforms and devices, and was built by one developer using a single codebase in just three weeks. Recently the iPhone/iPad version of the app...
At the request of Monty Widenius, creator of MySQL and now MariaDB , I ported my MySQL Crash Course to create a new book entitled MariaDB Crash Course . The book won't be out for a couple of months, but it is now available for pre-order .
ADC is running an article by Flash Runtime Principal Scientists Oliver Goldman on Considerations for developing Adobe AIR applications for mobile . This one is worth a quick read.
Fellow Adobe evangelist Paul Trani is an author! He has just published his first book (co-authored with three other developers) on building Android applications using Flash, Flex, and AIR. Pro Android Flash is available for purchase now on Amazon.com.
Looking for a way to get web page text to flow properly between different page sections? Need to wrap text around irregular shapes? Check out this video of CSS Regions, work by Adobe colleagues that has been submitted to W3C as a working draft .
The newest Adobe evangelist is Andy Trice who made the announcement on his blog today. Welcome aboard Andy, great to have you on the team!