Later this month we'll be running a series of free full day seminars for ColdFusion developers, focused on getting started with Flex, using Flash Builder 4, and ColdFusion Flex integration. We'll be hosting events in Plano TX, Durham NC, Denver CO, Newport Beach CA, Atlanta GA, Chicago IL,...
One of the most talked about MAX keynote demos was the FedEx Custom Critical shipment tracking dashboard as presented by FedEx's Adam Mollenkopf. And now RedMonk's Michael Coté has posted an interview with Adam where they look at the app, discuss the business case, and explain why the...
BFusion & BFlex '09 are two day long events coming up in Bloomington, IN. This will be the second year for BFusion and the third for BFlex. For $10 per event, you'll get a full day of sessions, learning, networking and more, and you'll get to learn from speakers including Doug Hughes, Mike...
Fellow Adobe platform evangelist Greg Wilson has posted some details about ChessJam , a new multi-user chess game he helped create. The client is a Flex based AIR application, and the back-end is a mixture of ColdFusion and LiveCycle Data Services. He has promised to post a follow-up entry with...
The Open Screen Project has launched a YouTube channel, appropriately named openscreenproject's Channel . Initial videos are of projects funded by the OSP Fund.
The new and greatly improved Adobe Cookbooks is now online. New features include: Many more products/technologies Improved navigation and search Recipe requests - for developers who can't find the code sample they are looking for Related recipes - that appear in a side bar of all recipe pages...
Squiggly is a spell checker library for use with any text control in Flash and AIR applications. This is something lots of users have wanted for a long time, and Squiggly is now available to play with on Adobe Labs. This initial release is intended for use with English language dictionaries, but...
Google Webmaster Tools has created a page on how they work with Flash and other rich media files . Regarding Flash, they say: "Google can now discover and index text content in SWF files of all kinds, including self-contained Flash websites and Flash gadgets such as buttons or menus. This includes...
FlexPMD is a new open source project that can help improve the quality of Flex applications by auditing source code to detect common bad practices. FlexPMD is a port of Java PMD , and is now on Adobe Labs.
Check out this MAX widget, created with Flex Builder and powered by ColdFusion on the backend. And then, get others to embed it, and if you are the top referer you'll get a free pass to MAX, and free software!