Viewing by month: March 2008
Boston Gets a Flex User Group
Posted on Mar 23, 2008
Boston has been a hotbed of RIA development with Flex and AIR but up until now had no Flex User Group. Well, no more!
The Boston Flex User Group will hold their first meeting on April 8th at 7:00 PM at Adobe offices in Newton. Peter Farland will speak on the open-source Flex SDK. Food and refreshements are sponsored by Universal Mind.
To keep up with further meetings, sign up for the Google group.
P.S. I won't be personally attending this first meeting as I am out of town that day, but look for me at future meetings :)
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - March 17, 2008
Posted on Mar 17, 2008
Three new projects and six updates this week. Enjoy the St. Patrick's day edition of the weekly update (thus the slight green theme in case it isn't obvious...which it isn't). It also happens to be Evacuation Day in Boston, but honestly I had no idea what that was. Thanks to Wikipedia for educating me. Basically it means if I worked for the city I would actually have today off to, purely coincidentally, go drink green beer.
Open-Source BlueDragon Overview and Wrap-up
Posted on Mar 11, 2008
As you likely have already heard, New Atlanta recently announced the upcoming release of an open source version of the J2EE version of their BlueDragon CFML server. This has spawned no shortage of opinions from a wide-range of ColdFusion bloggers and community notables. I have gathered every post I am aware of up to now and summarized them below to get a sense of the mood of the ColdFusion community with regard to this announcement. If I were to sum up my sense of the mood in a phrase, it would be "positive but skeptical."
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - March 10, 2008
Posted on Mar 10, 2008
One new project and five updates this week. So, this was gonna be the week of MXUnit but BlueDragon went and stole their thunder. Yes, I know about the announcement, obviously, but just a reminder that this list is projects built with CFML. I hope to have more to say about the BD announcement tomorrow.
New Google Code Repository for RemoteSynthesis Projects
Posted on Mar 07, 2008
As my readers know, I have a number of projects I maintain related to this site. Beyond the Illudium PU-36 Code Generator I also have some lesser known projects and examples that in general are just zipped up and attached to various posts. Instead, I have decided to put everything into a single Google Code repository so that getting any updates will be simpler on myself and any interested parties. The repository currently includes my ConnectAPI component, JQuery sortable tables tag, my <cfftp> component wrapper, my (never really completed) RSS component as well as some other less publicized examples and works in progress. Feel free to take whatever you want, that's the point! Keep in mind however that, in particular the projects I haven't posted on this site, are at varying levels of development.