I have been getting very sick of noobs yelling on their blogs about how HTML5 will completely wipe out the need for Flash Platform.

This will help those new to the technology and business needs behind video streaming. Read here on the YouTube API Blog.

While I find these posts greatly misguided and mostly Apple fan boy's (I do own 2 Mac and like them, I just don't get all obsessive like some) grabbing at any straws they can find against Adobe to make themselves feel better about their position. And they just repost crap they read from others, without even validating what they are reposting. "Well it was on a blog I read", oh yea, so it must have been true!

While I have wanted to post an in-depth blog post about the arguments going on and probably still will, I have been too busy with client projects.

Once I get time from all my new projects using the "old" Flash technology (Whatever Jobs), I will write the "My Thoughts on Jobs" article. But since I am so busy using this "dead" technology, don't expect the article anytime soon.

Here is a posting by Andy Rubin who is the Google VP of Engineering.

Here is a snippet: "Google believes that developers should have their choice of tools and technologies to create applications. By supporting Adobe AIR on Android we hope that millions of creative designers and developers will be able to express themselves more freely when they create applications for Android devices. More broadly, AIR will foster rapid and continuous innovation across the mobile ecosystem." - Andy Rubin

I am excited about Flash and AIR coming to this platform. In fact, I think its time I retire my Apple 3GS.

I am looking for good Flex developer(s) for a long term contract(s) in beautiful Lakewood Colorado (just west of Denver) for a very large company.

Even if you are not free at the moment, Flex contracts are booming, so get your resume to me anyway to save time for future projects.

Most Importantly! Unlike those general placement firms (who mostly don't even know what Flex is), you will not have an unfair cut taken out of your hourly rate. If you have done contracting before and found out what the firm was taking off the top (notice they never want to tell you that), you know how those placement sharks take higher cuts then Brad Pitts agent. If you didn't know that, you do now.

Please email me your availability and resume in word format along with expected rate.

Thanks!

A short while back Adobe has announced Flash Player 10.1 and AIR for Android. This is expected to be out sometime in the first half of 2010. This release will be optimized for these devices and will take advantage of the capabilities of these devices.

This is a very exciting time for developing mobile applications when these technologies are released. This brings me to Apple, what are they going to do in the future? While Apple's app store is a huge success, with Flash and AIR coming to all of their competitors devices, it will be interesting to see what Apple does. I for one have been interested in developing mobile apps for some time. However I was not going to waste my time learning how build iPhone apps. My time is better spent focusing on Flex/Flash Builder, CF 9, AIR and so forth. I figured when this stuff comes out, I will start building apps using what I know and use every day.

There are more and more products on the market that integrate and can greatly help your Flex development. I stumbled across this page on Adobe.com that has a great list of products that you may find very interesting.

I really encourage you to take a look at this page, the list of products is too long to list here. However here are the areas that at covered.

Adobe AIR

Functional Testing

Performance and load testing

Components

Action Message Format (AMF) products

Security testing

Licensing and encryption

Frameworks

Microsoft Visual Studio Flex tooling plug-ins

Flex tooling extensions

Adobe Creative Suite integration

GO HERE TO CHECK THEM ALL OUT

We are getting closer and closer to ColdFusion Builder being released. Long anticipated by the community, you can get your hands on it today.

Go GET IT NOW!

Well if you have the new Adobe ColdFusion 9 you do now!

If you go to Server Settings > Mail, you will see new options for setting up your keys to use this option.

Just saw this brought up on Ben's blog and thought it would be good info for everyone to know.

One of the analysts at the respected Gartner research group has made a post about his thoughts on CF 9

You can read it here

For a more in depth look from Gartner, check out this PDF

Adobe ColdFusion - Past Present and Future

Its very good to see these types of articles that are long overdue.

Make sure to check out the new page on Adobe.com about ColdFusion 9 and all of its new features.

Hear from developers in the community about this new release.

For another good summary make sure to check out the SitePoint review of What's new in ColdFusion 9

There are many great new features in Adobe ColdFusion 9, and now you can try them out for yourself in the public beta. I know I'm a little late posting this so forgive me for that. Adobe has done an amazing job with ColdFusion 9, looking at the features and effort put into this amazing version, proves the commitment from Adobe to the product.

So what are you waiting for, go to Adobe Labs and check out the new beta's.