Adobe and EffectiveUI are sponsoring a contest on ScaleNine.com named Skin to Win Challenge . You need to create a skin for Flex, and could win a MacBook Air (with SSD), a copy of Adobe CS3 Master Suite, a copy of Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro, and a ticket to Adobe MAX . The deadline is October 10th,...
Flex In A Week is an online Flex training course. To date there are three days of content posted, made up of over 20 videos and 10 exercises, and more content to follow. And it's all free for the browsing.
The InfoWorld Best of Open Source Software Awards 2008 (Bossies, for short) have been announced , and Flex has won in the Rich Internet Applications category.
ESRI is an industry leader in the GIS space, and their ArcGIS Server provides Internet and Web oriented GIS and spatial data services for your own applications. ESRI has created ArcGIS API for Flex to allow Flex developers to leverage the power of ArcGIS in their own applications. The API is in...
As has been previously noted, AMF is the preferred method of communication between applications running in the Flash Player and server back-ends. ColdFusion developers have long benefited from AMF being built into the core ColdFusion server. And Java developers have been able to obtain AMF support...
And another ColdFusion engineering team member has started blogging, this time Jayesh Viradiya who plans to cover ColdFusion, Flex, AIR, and more.
Joe Rinehart has written an article for Dr. Dobb's entitled Building RIAs on J2EE Foundations . Joe explains RIA development from a very ColdFusion and Flex centric view of the world, and walks through an example in detail. Nice job, Joe!
I'm about to head out to Lansing to present at , my shortest commute for any FlexCamp to date. I'll be covering Flex, AIR, LiveCycle Data Services, BlazeDS, and of course some ColdFusion.
As a general rule, you want to be using AMF for communication between Flash Player on the client (running a Flash or Flex app) and your back-end server (unless you need messaging and push and data management services, in which case LiveCycle Data Services is what you'll want). Lee Brimelow explains...
Adobe TV has posted a recording I did on building ColdFusion powered Flex applications. The video, entitled Building Flex Applications Powered By ColdFusion , is one of the longer Adobe TV sessions, and walks through the concepts, building the CFC back-end, coding the Flex client, retrieving data,...