IBM's Watson Supercomputer is going to be challenging top Jeopardy players next month (if you have yet to watch the videos on Engadget, you really should - this is mind-blowing stuff). Watson's public face is a monitor showing an avatar that provides visual cues as to processing, confidence in...
Jake over at Hook has posted details on a Digital Sheep app that provides incredible insight into AIR performance on Android.
Gamasutra is running a story on Flash "Molehill" 3D APIs (demonstrated at MAX 2010 during the opening keynote) and their use in gaming. They have also posted a detailed look at Flash vs. Unity.
As a general rule we are exceedingly careful to not break backwards compatibility when updating ColdFusion. But, sometimes this happens, and here is an example that a reader just alerted me to. is used to cache the generated output of dynamic pages so as to improve performance. Prior to ColdFusion...
eWeek Labs review claims "Adobe has done it again with ColdFusion, making the hard things easy. With their latest offering, ColdFusion 9, Adobe again ups the ante [actually, the article says anty, but I assume they meant ante] with new enterprise features and performance improvements." ColdFusion 9...
The Wall Street Journal Digits blog posted a story quoting comScore data that shows that more Americans have Android powered smartphone than iPhones. I think the findings are actually a little misleading, 26% versus 25% is well within the margin of error for just about any statistics. Still, the...
This new RIM video highlights the PlayBook web browser and "a truly uncompromising browsing experience" which means support for Flash.
Steve Bryant has announced the beta of a new ColdFusion framework named Neptune . Documentation with examples are online . So, what is Neptune? As per Steve: Neptune is the easiest framework for most web development. If you have a large (non-framework) code base that you are thinking about...
AOL Lifestream is a unified client for accessing multiple services (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, and more). The desktop client is built in Adobe AIR. [Via Serge Jespers ]
Lots has already been written and taught on getting started with ColdFusion Builder (I recorded an Adobe TV segment on the subject over a year ago). But, many users do still run into issues getting ColdFusion Builder configured and ready to use, and so Adobe Technical Writer Anand Shekar BC has...