I will be in Atlanta, GA, today, and will use the opportunity to talk to the ACFUG (at the Macquarium ). ACFUG is one of my favorite groups, the turnout is always great, and the sessions always lively. If you are in the area, drop by to learn more about Flex 2 and what it means for us ColdFusion...
Simeon Bateman has posted two important blog entries on CF/FES integration, one on getting ColdFusion to respond to Flex originated messages and the other on a CF/Flex Google Talk client .
I am at FOSE (the biggest annual government related IT trade show) in Washington, DC. Adobe has a large presence here - a booth with a theatre and five demonstration pods, and a training room offering ongoing 1 hour long hands-on lab sessions on a variety of subjects. I've been running a Flex...
As per the Flex Framework:FABridge page: "The Flex Ajax Bridge (FABridge) is a small, unobtrusive library of code that you can insert into a Flex application, a Flex component, or even an empty SWF file to expose it to scripting in the browser." Details and examples of this Ely Greenfield goodie...
The Adobe Developer Relations team has released a set of free and open ActionScript 3.0 APIs to help developers get started building Flex 2.0 applications. This include FlexUnit (a unit testing framework for Flex and ActionScript 3.0 applications), Flickr, Mappr (combines images from Flickr with...
I presented Flex 2 to the Chicago ColdFusion user group this evening. This has always been a great group to talk to, a lively and very interactive bunch, and the conversation and questions were right on target. I fly to Minneapolis first thing tomorrow morning for a midday session there. Details on...
I'm on the way down to Kansas City to present "Flex 2 for ColdFusion developers" to the KCFusion user group. This group is consistently once of the best attended, so this evening's event should be lively and fun. If you are in the area, please drop by.
One of the examples that I have been using in my user group presentations is a ColdFusion Session Tracker. This application uses Flex Enterprise Services to push real time session details to a connected Flex client. The display is a grid of sessions showing request count and when the most recent...
Matt Chotin has blogged that the Flex Enterprise team is looking for Dev and QA folks to work in our Newton, MA office.
The CFDJ folks dropped by to see me while I was in NYC yesterday. Simon Horwith used the opportunity to interview me about ColdFusion, Flex, and life at Adobe. The interview runs about 25 minutes, and is live online now .