A year or so ago I posted an entry explaining why, as a rule, managing session state on the server (as ColdFusion does) was not ideal in Flex applications. I still stand by that assertion. But, many have pointed out that it is sometimes necessary to access ColdFusion session data from within Flex...
MapQuest has opened up their AS3 APIs for developer use. You need to register to gain access. Our pals at Universal Mind were instrumental in creating the APIs . Check out this demo .
As I mentioned earlier this week, building AIR applications using HTML and JavaScript is pretty simple (arguably easier than doing so in MXML/AS for those of us with a web background). But how do you port a ColdFusion powered web app to be an AIR app? One simple solution is not to. After all, you...
I am in Hangzhou , a beautiful city 100 miles or so from Shanghai. State Street and Zhejiang University are hosting the annual International Conference on Information Technology for Financial Services (ICITFS) here, and I'll be presenting a session on Flex and AIR tomorrow.
I just arrived in Beijing, making a detour coming back from MAX Japan to spend 3 days in China (in Beijing and Hangzhou, and then leaving via Shanghai) for Flex and AIR related meetings and presentations. This is my first time in China (I have visited Hong Kong and Taiwan previously, but never...
Flex Camp is coming to Boston on December 7, 2007 (from 8am to 5pm) at Bentley College in Waltham, MA.
David Tucker has written an article for Adobe Developer Connection entitled Managing Adobe AIR updates with ColdFusion 8 . While the article is about using ColdFusion to manage updates to an AIR application post-deployment, David does demonstrate lots of ColdFusion/Flex/AIR integration techniques...
Earlier this week Adobe announced that Flex Builder 2 would be made available "at no cost to students and faculty at educational institutions worldwide."
I just received confirmation that we'll be doing a series of ColdFusion 8 events in Australia in November (primarily ColdFusion events, but we'll cover Flex and AIR, too). The planned dates are: November 20th: Sydney November 21st: Brisbane November 22nd: Melbourne November 27th: Perth It's been a...
"Thermo" was the talk of MAX, both in the US and in Europe. And the Thermo team is looking for an engineering manager and a QA manager (both positions are in San Francisco). Oh, and the Flex Builder team is also looking for an engineering manager .