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Web Designer Magazine / AIR 2 Tutorial

01.14.10 Posted in AIR, Development, Tutorials by Matt

With the welcome release of Adobe AIR 2 in beta, revised APIs and additional classes and features provide end users with an enhanced experience, whilst still giving developers a simple but extremely powerful way to develop feature-rich desktop applications.

In the tutorial featured in the January(166) issue of Web Designer magazine, I’ll guide through building an [...]

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ColdFusion as a Service (part 1)

11.01.09 Posted in AIR, ColdFusion, Development, Events, Flex Apps, Tutorials by Matt

In the first of a series of small tutorials, we will discover the new features available in ColdFusion 9 that expose the service layer for use with external languages and applications.

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.net magazine ColdFusion / AIR tutorial

10.13.09 Posted in AIR, ColdFusion, Flex Apps, Tutorials by Matt

In the November issue of .net magazine (issue 195) Andy Allan and I take you through the fun process of creating a rich internet dekstop application in Flex/AIR that harnesses the power of the new exposed ColdFusion services.

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Scotch on the Rocks European Tour 2009

10.12.09 Posted in AIR, ColdFusion, Development, Events by Matt

October 19th sees the start of the two-week long European Tour for Scotch on the Rocks, Europe’s biggest ColdFusion conference, and the first time it has been taken outside of the UK!

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ColdFusion 9 – available now

10.05.09 Posted in AIR, ColdFusion, Development by Matt

ColdFusion 9 is now available to download and purchase from the Adobe ColdFusion site.
The much anticipated release of the latest version of ColdFusion contains many new and exciting enhancements that further extend the functionality of the existing server-side application, and increase the interoperability between ColdFusion and external applications.
New features include:

Integration with the new IDE, ColdFusion [...]

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