The HP Web Security Research Group has released HP SWFScan , a free security tool to help developers find security vulnerabilities in applications developed with the Adobe Flash Platform. HP found that developers building applications with the Flash Platform often leave security vulnerabilities...
This evening I presented a sneak peak at the next ColdFusion to a joint session of the Tampa Flash, Flex and AIR Developers Group and the Tampa ColdFusion User Group . The really cool thing about this event was that 2/3 of the audience were not ColdFusion users, and several commented that now they...
Great Indian Developer Summit is one of the premier India tech conferences and events. Each year the conference hosts awards, and last year ColdFusion 8 won for Best Web Development Platform. This year, ColdFusion is nominated again for that same category, and Flex, Flex Builder, Connect, LiveCycle...
The Flash Lite Developer Challenge is the leading competition for developers working with Flash Lite . The competition challenges three groups of developers: 1. those currently working with Flash Lite, 2. Flash developers interested in developing applications for mobile devices, 3. mobile...
JavaWorld has published Part 1 of a two part article by Chet Haase on ActionScript for Java developers .
PC World is running a story entitled Flash Headed to Mobile Devices Say Manufacturers on the Flash (and AIR) related announcements coming out of Mobile World Congress this week. Among the announcements was one about Flash on the Palm Pre , which is fast becoming the phone I want next (assuming they...
eWeek (print edition) is running a story (which I can't find online, although I did find a related video post) on JavaFX, and has a supporting story (which I also can't find online) entitled RIA 1.1. It contains an O'Reilly based graph showing the results when they "asked 200 developers what RIA...
During the MAX Japan keynote we announced that Adobe AIR has been installed 100 million times since it's release less than a year ago! We also announced that Flash Player 10 had been installed on 55% of computers in its first two months! TechCrunch also just reported the story.
Fellow platform evangelist Lee Brimelow is a die-hard Flash user. But even Lee acknowledges that sometimes Flex is the best tool for the job, and he has just posted a video tutorial , targeted at Flash users, on getting started with Flex.
At MAX I demoed Ensemble's Tofino , a Visual Studio plug-in for Flex development. But Tofino is not the only kid on the block, and SapphireSteel (who created a Ruby plug-in for Visual Studio) is also working on a Flex Visual Studio plug-in called Amethyst. SapphireSteel has just announced the...