July 23, 2008
We'll be debuting a new session format at MAX North America this year, the MegaLab. I'll be presenting one, a getting-started crash-course session on LiveCycle Data Services and BlazeDS entitled Getting Started with LiveCycle Data Services on Monday, November 17, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm. I've posted...
July 22, 2008
Lynda.com has released a new course by David Gassner entitled AIR for Flex Developers . This course looks at how Flex Builder 3 and the Flex 3 framework can be used to build cross-system desktop applications with Adobe AIR, and covers every point of integration with the host operating system,...
July 20, 2008
LiveCycle Data Services 2.6 (aka LiveCycle Data Services ES Update 1 has been released. Release notes have also been posted .
July 20, 2008
I just confirmed that I'll be speaking at the upcoming FlexCamp on the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing on July 30th. I plan to present an opening session on Flex, AIR, Data Services, and more. For more details and registration information, see the FlexCamp site .
July 17, 2008
Tim Anderson has written an article for The Register entitled Consume .NET services without Silverlight describing how he built a Flex app that uses a .NET back-end using Web Services. Thanks to Joel Stobart for bringing this one to my attention.
July 16, 2008
Adobe Platform Evangelist Serge Jespers (who has extensive Flash and Flex experience) took a 3 day Silverlight training class this week and has posted his thoughts in an entry entitled Silverlight: The good, the bad and the ugly .
July 15, 2008
Long time ColdFusion/Flex/AIR/ etc. friend, Chong-Bing Liu (aka Bing) wrote an article comparing RIA trends (including Flex, Silverlight, JavaFX, and Curl) by using Google Trends. The original article is in Chinese , and he just just posted an English translation .
July 14, 2008
"Gumbo" is the codename for the next major version of the Flex SDK, and some details on Gumbo have been posted to the Adobe Open Source page (also see the Flex Team Blog ).
July 14, 2008
China Open Source Labs (OSL) is a web development summer camp for Chinese university students. It features two tracks, one of which is dedicated to ColdFusion, Flex, and AIR. Visit the site to learn how you can help by submitting project ideas, mentoring, and more. Thanks to our partner John Zhu of...
July 8, 2008
Jason Harris knows GIS (and in particular ESRI technologies) and is also a long time ColdFusion user. And he blogs on both topics (including using them together), Flex, and more.