August 3, 2006
Total Training has released an 8 hour DVD Flex 2 training course hosted by our very own James Talbot (author of the soon-to-be-released "Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source"). If you are looking for a way to quickly get up and running with Flex 2, this could be the best $150 you'll spend.
August 2, 2006
The Real World Flex Seminar (hosted by SYS-CON) takes place on August 14th in New York City. Dave Mendels will be speaking, as will Christophe Coenraets , and others. (Unfortunately, I will not be there myself because of prior commitments). Register now and the cost is only $395 (which includes...
July 26, 2006
Join me online to learn about Adobe Flex 2, and how ColdFusion and Flex have been designed to work seamlessly together. ColdFusion productivity and simplicity on the back-end, coupled with Flex-generated rich and engaging Flash on the client-side, empowers you to build better and richer...
July 12, 2006
This afternoon a user IMed me to ask for help with a ColdFusion powered Flex 2 application. He wanted to be able to perform on-the-fly filtering of data in a CF populated Flex DataGrid control. Here is the solution I sent him. Populate the DataGrid with an ArrayCollection (converting the data to an...
July 5, 2006
Richard Ziade of arc90 shares his 10 Reasons We Love Flex 2 .
July 5, 2006
Not that is need be one against the other, but, InfoWorld is running a story explaining how Flex is now a better alternative to AJAX than it was before. The main reason? No surprise, the new pricing.
June 29, 2006
Adobe Developer Week Breeze recordings are all posted on the Adobe Developer Week page.
June 27, 2006
It's been two years since Macromedia first released Flex, giving us a glimpse of what the future of web application development could (and should) look like. During this time Flex has been successfully deployed in a variety of organizations, both public and private. The highest profile Flex...
June 27, 2006
The wait is over! Flex 2 has just been released, and that includes Flex Builder 2, Flex Data Services 2, and the ColdFusion 7.0.2 update. To learn more about Flex 2 visit the Flex Developer Center . Also visit Flex.org for Flex technical and support resources (from both Adobe and the developer...
June 27, 2006
Day one of CFUNITED is winding down (aside from what I suspect will be a long evening of hanging out at the bar). Michael Smith and crew have outdone themselves once again, with over 900 attendees (over a 1000 including staff and exhibitors). This morning's keynote went very well. I presented...