I am on the way to Washington, D.C., for WebManiacs which starts tomorrow. I present an opening session, and then will have to duck out to catch a flight to Europe where I have meetings in Bucharest and Brussels. There still are some slots left for WebManiacs, so register now .
I'll be in Toronto on Thursday for Flex Camp , and in Washington, D.C., on Monday for the opening of WebManiacs . Registration is still open for both events.
We just announced the Open Screen Project which will be working to enable a consistent runtime environment, starting with the Flash Player, and in the future AIR, to remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and consumer devices, including...
TorontoFLEX is scheduled for May 15th, 2008 at MaRS Centre in Toronto, Ontario. Registration is FREE and now open . I am planning on attending this event, and hope to see you there!
AMF (Flash Remoting) is generally the preferred way for Flash/Flex/AIR applications to communicate with back-end servers and services. ColdFusion developers are fortunate in that AMF has been built in to ColdFusion for years. Java developers have access to the open-source BlazeDS which, among other...
LiveCycle Data Services 2.6 is now in public beta. The update includes better support for Flex 3, support for AIR offline storage and data management, improved performance, and more. And yes, it can be used with ColdFusion. You can get LCDS 2.6 beta from Labs .
Adobe TV has launched. We'll be posting new content regularly (I actually recorded 3 videos yesterday which will be going live in a month or so).
I am on the way to Cleveland for Flex Camp tomorrow (posting this on my cell phone from a rest stop on the Ohio Turnpike). I had originally planned to present an opening session and take part in a closing Q&A panel, but I'll have to miss the Q&A as I have to be in San Francisco next. I...
I just finished my session at the RIA Architect Summit here in Bangalore, India. I presented an introduction to Flex, AIR, and Data Services (BlazeDS and LiveCycle DS) - all in about 1 hour. Fortunately, I speak quickly, and everyone here understands and speaks English, so I was able to get through...
I arrived in India early Wednesday morning (very early, just before 1:00am) and finally got to my hotel after 2:00am. And with the massive time zone difference and having just flown for close to 20 hours, I barely slept at all. And then we spent a full day with the local Adobe team, customers, and...