The first two weeks of our upcoming spring pre- Scorpio usergroup tour have been finalized. Here are the names and dates of the first 7 venues: April 23: Seattle, WA April 24: San Francisco, CA April 25: Denver, CO April 30: Dallas, TX May 1 (midday): Austin, TX May 1: Houston, TX May 2: Phoenix,...
Steve Moore of Larimer County, CO, wrote to tell me about the Property Explorer application he's created for viewing all information related to property records in Larimer County. This is a ColdFusion powered Flex 2 app which combines 3 different databases and multiple separate web pages into one...
Jeremy Geelan has posted thoughts on the most influential heroes in the i-technology space, and has asked for others to share their nominations. For the most part, just about every name I'd have picked is on his list, with two notable exceptions: Philippe Kahn, who (via Borland) forced all...
City of Canton, GA, is a long time ColdFusion customer. Years ago they built an online bill payment system for Canton's 17,000 residents, and now they are also using Flex. Baseline is running a story about City of Canton and how pleased they are that Adobe has kept the best of Macromedia (including...
Four positions to post this week: Headsprout (Seattle, WA) is looking for a ColdFusion developer with at least three years experience. Other requirements include experience with at least one other language, solid SQL and data modeling background, and a strong understanding of database theory....
Amazon.com is now excepting pre-orders for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7, due out July 21st, 2007), and I have already ordered my copies (yes, copies plural, there are several of us here who'll want to all read it immediately). The book is already the #1 seller on Amazon.com,...
Dave Nielsen of StrikeIron Web Services pinged me to let me know about Census Dashboard , a Flex Mashup created by Andrew Trice (of Cynergy Systems) using free StrikeIron APIs (for US zip code and census data lookup) and Yahoo maps. Very cool indeed.
Total Training has released a new Flex 2 course entitled Advanced Visual Programming . This course (9 hours on 2 DVD-ROMs) teaches how to work with embedded images and fonts, implement transitions and easing effects, apply filters and blends, and programmatically interact with mouse position and...
Bruce Eckel has posted his thoughts on Rich Internet Applications, why Java has failed as a viable client-side technology, and why he thinks Flash and Flex deserve some serious attention.
Flex Data Services provide rich data management and messaging capabilities. But what if you are not using a Flash client? What if you are using good old JavaScript, including Ajax type clients? Well, as first sneaked at MAX in Las Vegas, now JavaScript clients can leverage FDS using Ajax Data...