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.

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

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

Make sure to keep an eye on this. The previous name was "Cocomo" in case you are not aware of the new name.

If you ever had the need, or will have the need to build real-time social type applications, this service is for you. ACFS is a service based platform that allows Adobe Flex developers to easily add real time communication.

The solution is comprised of a set of Flex custom components, and hosted services provided by Adobe. Using these components and services you can build real-time multi-user RIA's. Using the Flex components and hosted services will allow a rapid platform for developing these applications. You can also have peace of mind knowing that server issues and tasks such as deployment, maintenance, and scalability are taken care of.

I'm very excited about this solution, and can't wait to start building apps with it.

Check it out on Adobe Labs

InfoWorld Best of Open Source Software Awards 2008 have been announced. The winner of the RIA category goes to Adobe Flex!

Congratulations to Adobe and the Flex Engineering team!

I'm sure many more awards are in the future.

Read the article here

Flex 3 is now out and it's an exciting time to be a ColdFusion developer. In this article I walk you step by step to using Flex 3 with ColdFusion and the integrated LiveCycle Data Services. There is also a section about using the ColdFusion wizard to quickly build the backend ColdFusion CFC's to get you up and running.

LiveCycle Data Services gives you the ability to create robust applications with very little work, I encourage all ColdFusion developers to get familiar with this technology as it's a great tool on your development belt.
Hope you enjoy the article, and if you have any questions or problems feel free to drop a comment here.

View the Article Here!

There is a call now for Flex 3 recipes that will be considered for the print version of the Flex 3 cookbook from O'Reilly Media.

Find out more here!

Even though AIR is still in Beta 2, developers are already starting to create applications. Here is one that is still in development, but allows you to try it out as the application itself is still in Beta.

Agile Agenda is project planning software. The developer of this application was getting fed up with Microsoft Project, so he decided to make his own project planning software!

Check out Agile Agenda Here