The beta of Flash Player 10 has been posted to Labs. New features include 3D visual effects, a new text rendering engine (which also supports right-to-left text), and more. Demos and videos have been posted, too.

Long time ColdFusion developer and community member John Farrar has written ColdFusion 8 Developer Tutorial which is due to be published in August 2008. Congratulations John, it's great to see another ColdFusion title, and I can't wait to see a copy....

I'll be in Toronto on Thursday for Flex Camp, and in Washington, D.C., on Monday for the opening of WebManiacs. Registration is still open for both events.

When Flex 3 was launched a few months back, we also launched a series of extensions that can be used from within CS3 products to create Flex skins. These extensions (for Flash, Fireworks, Illustrator, and Photoshop) allow designers to skin controls ...

My Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes has been a top seller on Amazon.com for a long time, consistently in the top few hundred computer books and in the top couple of thousand across all books. But I was just informed that is #3 in the Databases c...

I've been doing some maintenance and code cleanup on my ColdFusion ISP List, and noticed that some entries have not been updated in years. If you know of any companies that are no longer in business, or who no longer offer ColdFusion hosting, or anyt...

Yesterday I wasted an hour or so debugging a Flex itemRenderer that I was using to display an image instead of a value in a DataGrid column. The renderer had to simply pick one of six images based on the column value, and so it contained a single <...

ColdBricks is a ColdFusion based CMS and site generator, and it's free and open-source. There's a very impressive live demo online, too. This one via fellow evangelist Serge Jespers.

ColdFusion is case-insensitive, and Flex MXML and ActionScript are very case-sensitive. For consistency's sake, when ColdFusion variables are sent from ColdFusion to the Flash Player via Flash Remoting, names are converted to uppercase (that's the de...

Paul Jansen is TIOBE's Management Director, and he responded to my post yesterday about the ColdFusion being taken off the TIOBE Programming Index. Here is his message: Hi Ben, Thanks for your reply on our TIOBE index. I have added an extra que...

Adobe Feeds is up and running, replacing MXNA, and running on newer faster servers running ColdFusion 8.0.1. But more importantly, some significant code changes were made to get rid of lots of the problem code - code which was written for tens of fe...

I've never taken the TIOBE Programming Community Index overly seriously. It's not really a gauge of anything overly meaningful. As TIOBE itself explains: The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming la...

Three ColdFusion positions this week, including one in Canada: New York City Human Resources Administration (Brooklyn, NY) is looking for a ColdFusion developer. Requirements include at least 8 years of ColdFusion experience, as well as strong ski...

We just announced the Open Screen Project which will be working to enable a consistent runtime environment, starting with the Flash Player, and in the future AIR, to remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and application...

Enrique Duvós, who heads up Adobe Platform Evangelism in Europe (and who's been at Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe for about as long as I have), has a new blog at http://www.duvos.com/.