Jun 23rd, 2009
I’m speaking this Thursday, June 25th at the Tampa Bay ColdFusion User Group meeting at the offices of Kforce. I will be giving extensive demos of the upcoming release of ColdFusion, code named Centaur and the new ColdFusion IDE, code named Bolt. There are some amazing new features to show so you don’t want to [...]
Jun 23rd, 2009
During the past few months, I have often needed to share a small code snippet or other content that is impossible or impractical to paste into a tweet, blog comment or email. On several occasions, I created a temporary page on my blog or on one of my public servers. I also tried out a [...]
Jun 17th, 2009
I’m heading to Nashville to speak at the following events: Thursday, 06/18/2009 7PM CDT – Nashville ColdFusion User Group – I’ll be showing some amazingly cool features in the upcoming release of ColdFusion. Friday, 06/19/2009 7PM CDT – 615 Flash / Flex camp & Flex Adobe Tour – Cool Flex 4 and Catalyst demonstrations as [...]
Apr 17th, 2009
A few weeks ago, I decided to challenge myself and start a side project that involves a Flex front end with a ColdFusion backend. This was not only my first Flex+ColdFusion project, it was my first hands-on experience with ColdFusion! Like most folks, I created a new Flex project in Flex Builder and selected ColdFusion [...]
Aug 18th, 2008
Today, a bunch of new stuff was published on ADC covering many topics: Introducing Flex SDK 3.1 and Flex Builder 3.0.1 Learn Flash in a flash 10 common mistakes when building AIR applications High availability clustering ColdFusion: Using ColdFusion Enterprise Manager Export CSS and images in Fireworks CS4 beta Six reasons to use ActionScript 3.0 [...]
Apr 25th, 2008
As mentioned earlier, I will be presenting at Webmaniacs. My session is titled, “Modular Development with Flex and LiveCycle ES“. I am also doing two sessions on Thermo, some very cool new technology coming soon from Adobe. Click the Thermo link above for an intro There is still time to register – sign up soon! [...]
Apr 16th, 2008
This is going to be a great event – 71 sessions! …including the one I’m giving titled, “Module Development with Flex and LiveCycle ES“. I will discuss the advantages of the component-based architecture of Flex for front-end development and LiveCycle ES for back-end development — and how, when used correctly, they can dramatically reduce development [...]
Mar 23rd, 2008
March 24th – 28th, 2008 – Adobe Developer Week There are some great online sessions available this week at http://adobe.com/go/2008_developer_week. These live seminars are scheduled events simulcast over the web via Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional. You’ll need a web browser, Adobe Flash player and an Internet connection. Voice-Over IP will broadcast over your computer if [...]