The Japan Flex User Group hit a major milestone last week, announcing that they now have 1500 registered members, 1000 topics, and 5000 posts - pretty impressive considering that they started in December 2005. Although concentrating primarily on Flex and Flex Builder, they also cover AIR, LiveCycle...
Oliver Merk has announced that Flex Camp is coming to Toronto on November 15, 2007 (from 5pm to 10pm) at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Adobe has partnered with Total Training to offer free online Flex training for 30 days. Details online .
Ben Clinkinbeard, Brian Holmes, and Brendan Meutzner have announced flexmdi , a really cool extensible, open source solution for creating MDI interfaces in Flex. The demos are very impressive, and this is one I can see a real need for.
Tim Buntel, Ted Patrick, and I, will be presenting a full day seminar on ColdFusion and more in picturesque Pavia, Italy (near Milan) on October 22nd (the week after MAX Europe ). Details posted online .
While the ColdFusion community may not know Lee Brimelow, the Flash community most definitely does. Lee has a strong Flash background, and has more recently been applying his skills and expertise to Flex and AIR development (his presentations on the On AIR Bus Tour were some of the most popular)...
InfoWorld has a roundup story on The Rich Web Experience Conference, with comments on Ajax, Flex, Silverlight, JavaFX, and more. And it includes this quote from Bill Scott, Ajax Evangelist at Yahoo: "In the enterprise space, I tend to recommend things like Flex because the development is much...
Here's a MAX 2007 session that is sure to be as entertaining as it is informative ... ESRI designs and develops the world's leading geographic information system (GIS) technology, and ESRI products have long integrated (in a variety of ways) with ColdFusion, and more recently Flex (via a collection...
Emmy Huang has posted thoughts on Flash Player adoption rates, and how to project those rates . And the really cool stat is that over 90% of connected computers have Player 9 installed, which is good news for those of us building and deploying Flex 2 apps.
The On AIR Bus is in Philadelphia, and we are making our way downtown now. This is my last stop on the On AIR Bus tour, and I hope to see you at the event this evening at The Franklin Institute Science Museum .