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Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2 Betas Arrive

Mitch Pronschinske — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:48:46 +0000

Adobe Labs just unveiled two new beta releases for the Adobe Flash Platform. Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2 betas are currently availble for Mac, Windows, and Linux. The new versions were previewed in October at the Adobe MAXFlash Player 10.1

Adobe's Ben Forta on ColdFusion 9, CF Adoption Trends

nbharti78 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:24:04 +0000

DZone recently caught up with Ben Forta, ColdFusion guru and renowned book author to discuss the state of the ColdFusion market, CF adoption trends, and the future of the platform. While ColdFusion plays a pivotal role in many heterogeneous environments as 'middleware glue', it is increasingly becoming the platform of choice for standalone Web application and RIA development. ColdFusion 9...

Exclusive Interview: Adobe Technical Evangelist James Ward

nbharti78 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:00:42 +0000

In this interview, recorded at Adobe MAX 2009, Adobe Technical Evangelist James Ward talks about some of his recent work driving Flex adoption at large companies such as IBM, Oracle, SAP and SalesForce.com. James describes how he helped open and extend SaleForce's CRM application platform to support the deployment of Flex apps on the cloud. He also talks about some of the new and interesting...

Data-Centric Development with ColdFusion 9 and Flash Builder 4 - Part 2

nmische — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:13:43 +0000

In the first part of this tutorial series we began to explore the new data-centric development (DCD) features available in ColdFusion 9 and Flash Builder 4. In this part of the series we will look at two of the more advanced DCD features, paging and client side data management.

Data-Centric Development with ColdFusion 9 and Flash Builder 4 - Part I

nmische — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:02:20 +0000

Because of its built in support for Flash Remoting ColdFusion has always been an excellent choice for powering Flex applications, but with the recent release of ColdFusion 9 and upcoming releases of Flash Builder 4 and ColdFusion Builder, Adobe is looking to re-define how developers create data-centric applications. In particular the powerful introspection and code generation tools in Flash...

Adobe Launches ColdFusion 9 into the Cloud

Mitch Pronschinske — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:17:06 +0000

Adobe ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder Beta 2 are available today along with a private beta of the new ColdFusion in the Cloud that will run in the Amazon web services environment. The release was announced at Adobe's worldwide developer conference, Adobe MAX. Here are some of the new features in ColdFusion 9

Enterprise Security for Flex

jonrose182 — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:37:57 +0000

The Spring BlazeDS Integration project combined with the new Flexible Chimp project for client-side filtering provides an ideal solution for fully securing enterprise Flex applications. References Reference: Enterprise Security for Flex Nitin Bharti

A Beginner's Guide to the ColdSpring Framework for ColdFusion

remotesynth — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:10:57 +0000

If you ask a ColdFusion developer what they think of the ColdSpring framework, chances are that you will get one of two answers. Either they will gush about how useful it is and how they couldn't imagine building large-scale applications without it or they will say they don't really understand the point. In my experience this is because until you encounter the problems that ColdSpring solves, it...

ColdFusion Refcard: Meet The Author

jsugrue — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:53:13 +0000

This week DZone releases the ColdFusion Refcard, with all the latest updates for ColdFusion 9. I got the chance to ask Terry Ryan about ColdFusion and the advantages of using it in the crowded application server market. DZone: Hi Terry, could you please introduce yourself? James Sugrue

A Look Inside ColdFusion 9 - The 'Centaur' Release

nbharti78 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:13:14 +0000

“ColdFusion is still around?” With over 100,000 customers and 778,000 worldwide developers, the ColdFusion community is in fact thriving, according to Terry Ryan, Adobe Platform Evangelist.

Tech Chat - Greg Wilson on Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite

nbharti78 — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:49:34 +0000

In this interview, recorded at JavaOne 2009, Greg Wilson, Enterprise Platform Evangelist at Adobe Systems, provides an overview of the Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, an SOA platform that deploys to a J2EE application server and provides a range of services from process management to PDF generation. He looks at some of the out-of-the-box services and tools provided by LiveCycle such as an...

Adobe Unveils Two New Open Source Projects

ryanstewart — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:59:13 +0000

Today we’re announcing two more projects going up on opensource.adobe.com and becoming part of the open source family at Adobe. The first is the Text Layout FrameReferences Reference: Two New Open Source Projects at Adobe Nitin Bharti

Integrating Flex & PHP - An Introductory Tutorial

LarryUllman — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:15:46 +0000

Ten years ago or so, the World Wide Web primarily meant static HTML. Horrendous JavaScript, trivial games, and frivolous splash pages represented the common attempts at browser-based pizzazz. But in the past couple of years, a decade’s worth of server-side dominance has ironically revitalized interest in the client. Today, the best sites are using Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), tied into...

Where are the RIA "killer apps"?

kas_thomas — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:54:23 +0000

I've found, over the years, that in almost every successful field of technology there's a "killer app," a category-leader so strong as to be universally understood as the archetype of success in a given domain. Conversely, when a technology lacks a killer app, it tends to be very telling. It says something about the future of that technology.References Reference: ...

Automatic serialization of ActionScript objects to and from XML

nbharti78 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:41:38 +0000

In Flex applications that use a backend server for data manipulation and storage, serializing and transferring the objects from one layer to another is an important matter. In this short tip, Constantin Moldovanu shows you how to automatically serialize objects from XML to ActionScript and vice versa and how BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services can effectively hide this step for the...