A user emailed me to ask about installing ColdFusion when no desktop access is available (Telnet access, for example). I sent him this link describing Performing a silent installation of ColdFusion 9 , and am posting it here just so I have it the next time I need it.
The PolitiFact app has fast become the poster child for all that is great about Flash, Flex, and AIR. The app is useful, fun, responsive, supports multiple platforms and devices, and was built by one developer using a single codebase in just three weeks. Recently the iPhone/iPad version of the app...
At the request of Monty Widenius, creator of MySQL and now MariaDB , I ported my MySQL Crash Course to create a new book entitled MariaDB Crash Course . The book won't be out for a couple of months, but it is now available for pre-order .
ADC is running an article by Flash Runtime Principal Scientists Oliver Goldman on Considerations for developing Adobe AIR applications for mobile . This one is worth a quick read.
Fellow Adobe evangelist Paul Trani is an author! He has just published his first book (co-authored with three other developers) on building Android applications using Flash, Flex, and AIR. Pro Android Flash is available for purchase now on Amazon.com.
Looking for a way to get web page text to flow properly between different page sections? Need to wrap text around irregular shapes? Check out this video of CSS Regions, work by Adobe colleagues that has been submitted to W3C as a working draft .
The newest Adobe evangelist is Andy Trice who made the announcement on his blog today. Welcome aboard Andy, great to have you on the team!
ColdFusion Builder 2 Hot Fix 1 has been released to fix three reported bugs.
Last week I mentioned the Adobe AIR App Challenge sponsored by Sony. To help you get started, and to learn more about using AIR to build apps for the upcoming Sony tablet devices, we're hosting two webinars later this week. Details online , and registration is now open.
ColdFusion Technical Support Engineer Vikas Chandran explains how to run Java servlets on ColdFusion.