ColdFusion News Desk

Adobe Fiddles with its Web Apps

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:00:00 EST

Adobe put out this press release - well, kinda, it was released at 6am Saturday morning and the company didn't bother to tell its staff about it, least of all its sales people. Anyway, it's about how Acrobat.com, Adobe's contribution to the flock of Office-challenging web apps, has hit its first upgrade, adding a bunch of reportedly user-requested features - like a prettier interface - as well as smartphone integration. Since Acrobat.com is based on Flash, guess that's a way to get a hint of Flash on the forbidden iPhone. Maybe Adobe hopes Steve Jobs won't notice.

Built4Flash Launched by Farata Systems

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST

There are about 250,000 developers working with Flex and AIR. If you add an army of ActionScript developers, this number will grow substantially. Where do you go if you have a technical issue while developing RIA? As of today, there no one place to ask questions and get answers. A respected forum flexcoders uses the outdated and hard to follow Yahoo! groups. Some people try to find answers visiting blogs they trust. Some developers post their questions on Twitter. About a year ago Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood released a well designed and easy to follow knowledge exchange stackoverflow.com, where people earn reputation by suggesting the right solutions to people’s problems. Flex/Flash/Air developers started to post their questions there among the plethora of questions on other technologies and programming languages.

Adobe Flex Developer Earns $100K in New York City

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:00:00 EST

CIO and CTO salaries will see a spike of 12.5% in 2010, according to research conducted by Bluewolf on salaries in the Tri-state region (New York, Conn. and New Jersey). Bluewolf is a global technology consulting firm and the preeminent source of salary data and statistics for IT professionals. Every year, Bluewolf issues its Bluewolf IT Salary Guide for Tri-state job seekers and employers, revealing its proprietary salary research. In 2010, CIO salaries will range from $175-200,000 in 2010, up from $149,000-175,000 in 2009. CTO salaries are predicted to range from $140,000-$175,000 in 2010 up from $120,000-$150,000 in 2009, according to Bluewolf's salary research. In addition to CIOs and CTOs, 2010 starting salaries for VPs of Information Technology are expected to increase from $110,000 to $125,000.

Adobe Betas Target RIAs and Cloud Computing

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:15:00 EST

The rise of RIAs and cloud computing, and the increased diversity of Internet-connected devices are spawning the need for contextual applications that take advantage of specific functionality offered by operating systems and devices. The Flash Platform enables developers to create contextual applications for users across a number of devices while maintaining content and a user experience that is consistent yet unique to each device.

Adobe Cans Another 9% of its Workforce

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:15:00 EST

Adobe is cutting another 680 full-time jobs worldwide, around 9% of its pre-Omniture workforce, to align its costs with its fiscal 2010 operating plan and “the realities of the business environment,” according to an SEC filing. It previously said it would cut 9% of Omniture’s 1,200 people when that deal closed last month. The company cut 600 people last December. Adobe expects the latest move to cost it a $65 million-$71million restructuring charge, including around $17 million-$19 million related to the consolidating leased facilities. It says it will incur additional restructuring expenses relating to Omniture’s operations as part of the total acquisition price.

680 Employees To Be Axed at Adobe: TechCrunch

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:30:00 EST

TechCrunch is reporting that 9% of Adobe's workforce is to be axed, according to an 8-K filed by Adobe with the SEC today. "Adobe is restructuring its business to align costs with its fiscal 2010 operating plan and budget, the company’s three-year strategic priorities and the realities of the business environment, as well as to ensure its ability to continue investing in long-term growth opportunities," a spokesman told TechCrunch.

Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2 for Cloud Computing

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of Adobe® LiveCycle® Enterprise Suite 2 (ES2), a major software release enabling businesses and governments to build applications that improve interactions with customers and constituents across devices and channels. Delivering significant productivity improvements to IT and line-of-business managers, LiveCycle ES2 provides a rich Internet application (RIA) framework for building customizable RIA workspaces, mobile and desktop access to critical applications, and deployment in the cloud.

Hosting.com Launches ColdFusion 9 in the Cloud

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:15:00 EDT

Hosting.com, the leading provider of managed hosting, cloud hosting and colocation solutions and an Adobe Solution Partner, today announced the general availability of ColdFusion 9 in its Cloud and Dedicated environments. Hosting.com is the first provider to launch ColdFusion 9's availability in a cloud hosting environment. Hosting.com is the world's most trusted ColdFusion hosting provider servicing over 6,000 global ColdFusion customers -- many since 1997. ColdFusion 9 Enterprise and Standard editions are available in the Hosting.com Cloud Enterprise, Cloud Dedicated and Dedicated Hosting platforms. Cloud Enterprise, starting as low as $125 per month, provides on-demand cloud hosting via a secure web portal so businesses can rapidly deploy virtual servers and modify resources as needed -- and provides high availability and elasticity to each client. Cloud Enterprise requires no contracts and clients can purchase, provision and add CPU, RAM, and DISK online in as little as one minute.

Adobe & Salesforce Cut Cloud Deal

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:00:00 EDT

Adobe in a strategic deal with Salesforce.com has put out a jointly developed, Eclipse-based Flash Builder for Force.com IDE - well, at least a developer preview - integrating their two platforms in the name of greater developer productivity in creating what they claim will be a "new generation" of rich Internet applications (RIAs) in the cloud - and some mumble about bringing the richness of the consumer web to enterprise cloud apps. Final delivery isn't scheduled until sometime in the first half of 2010. Meantime, see http://developer.force.com/flashbuilder where it warns against using the widgetry, which includes a beta version of Flash Builder 4 Premium, to build for production applications. No notion of pricing yet.

On2 Settlement Proposals Involving Merger With Google

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:00:00 EDT

As more fully described in a Form 8-K being filed today by On2 and as disclosed in the registration statement on Form S-4, as amended (the "Registration Statement"), which Google intends to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on or about October 26, 2009, On2 and the On2 board of directors and the plaintiffs to each of the Delaware Action and the New York Action entered into a memorandum of understanding ("MOU") on October 23, 2009 contemplating the settlement of all claims in each of the Delaware Action and the New York Action.

Adobe’s Aiming ColdFusion at Multiple Clouds

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:30:00 EDT

Adobe is nosing its flagship ColdFusion rapid web site and Internet application development platform onto multiple clouds. Turns out it's been quietly collaborating with Alagad, a North Carolina web development services provider, on a cloud implementation of ColdFusion 9. Adobe just released ColdFusion 9 on Monday. The cloud version of the stuff is still in private beta.

Adobe Reader Sued

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:00:00 EDT

A New Jersey outfit called Textscape LLC sued Adobe in a California federal court last Friday claiming that Adobe's Acrobat Reader, which must be on every computer in the universe, treads on its patent for processing text. It's asking for unspecified damages. The widgetry involved lets users "obtain information in a body of text without reading the text." Apparently it creates a map box with a representation of the whole text when the text is too big for the screen.

The Planet Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Computing Expo

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:45:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that The Planet, the global IT hosting leader, was named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California. The event is expected to attract over 1,500 developers, engineers, architects, IT managers, and hardware and software professionals of every stripe.

Fig Leaf Software to Exhibit at Government IT Conference & Expo

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:45:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that Fig Leaf Software, a full service Web design, development and training company, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo (GovITExpo), which will take place on October 6, 2009, at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

Bruce Chizen Joins Voyager Capital as Venture Partner

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:15:00 EDT

Well-known as CEO of Adobe Systems, Chizen transformed the company into one of the world's largest and most diversified software companies in terms of revenue, global reach and breadth of products. During his tenure, Chizen tripled revenue and transformed a company known mainly for its popular design products into one of the most significant forces in the software industry. Chizen also led the company's expansion into new markets, including the enterprise, knowledge worker and consumer.

Analytics for Adobe Air Applications

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:45:00 EDT

Speed-Trap http://www.speed-trap.com the online customer insight software provider, today launches its analytics for adobe air applications, Speed-Trap's unique capability to capture and process detailed data on users' interactions with Adobe AIR applications, despite their being based on the desktop, not in the browser. Rich internet applications are no longer solely implemented in browser environments, and with the introduction of Adobe AIR in early 2008, many organisations are starting to implement their rich internet applications as standalone, including companies like the BBC, eBay and PayPal. Indeed, as of February 2009, Adobe AIR had been installed over 100 million times.

Oracle To Keynote Cloud Computing Expo

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:15:00 EDT

Enterprises large and small are drawn by the advantages of cloud computing - pay-for-use, self-service, elastic scalability and the elimination of hardware management – resulting in very low barriers to entry and exit and high agility. However, enterprises are also concerned about security, quality of service, integration, compliance, lock-in, and the long-term costs of public clouds.

Delve Networks and Akamai to Enable Cloud-Based Video

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:45:00 EDT

Customers will have everything they need to publish video online, including video content ingestion, encoding, content management, syndication, analytics, monetization, content delivery, easy to customize video players, APIs, multiple device support, and search. The Delve platform is as simple to use as it is powerful, providing a simple point-and-click user interface that makes publishing video online accessible to anyone and any organization. In fewer than 5 minutes, a customer can go from having no video on their website to delivering high quality video with a player customized to match the website's branding.

Adobe Open Sources Flash Initiatives

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:45:00 EDT

Adobe Tuesday aimed two new open source Flash initiatives at media companies and other publishers. The Open Source Media Framework (OSMF), part of the Strobe project, is meant for building Flash-optimized media players. The Text Layout Framework (TLF) is supposed to bring sophisticated typography to web applications. Both are governed by the Mozilla Public License.

Adobe Enters Cloud Computing with LiveCycle

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:30:00 EDT

"By embracing Amazon Web Services to power this offering, Adobe combines its comprehensive enterprise solution with a cloud environment that knocks down barriers to productivity for enterprise developers worldwide,” said Kumar Vora, vice president and general manager for LiveCycle at Adobe, as the company recently announced the availability of Adobe LiveCycle ES Developer Express software - a full version of Adobe LiveCycle ES hosted in the Amazon Web Services cloud computing environment.

Adobe Releases Flash Platform Media and Text Frameworks as Open Source

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:00:00 EDT

Adobe announced two new Adobe Flash Platform open source initiatives for developers, media companies and publishers. Open Source Media Framework (OSMF), part of the project previously code named Strobe, enables developers to quickly and easily build more robust, feature-rich media players optimized for the Adobe Flash Platform. The Text Layout Framework (TLF) will help developers bring sophisticated typography capabilities to Web applications. Both OSMF and TLF are now freely available as open source software, helping content owners extend their online media efforts as they look to create new business opportunities and monetization strategies for publishing on the Web.

Fast Track to ColdFusion 8 Classes Added

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:00:00 EDT

On3 has some excellent ColdFusion Classes scheduled during the next few months to celebrate the grand opening of our new headquarters and training center location on the 16th Street mall in Denver. The new address starting on August 1st will be: Denver Petroleum Building, 110 16th St, Ste 604, Denver, CO 80202. Please drop by [...]

Gorilla Logic Announces FlexMonkey for Adobe Flex

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:00:00 EDT

Gorilla Logic, firm known industry-wide for providing “gorilla” consultants that deliver a 10X productivity improvement over other options, today announced the release of FlexMonkey 1.0. FlexMonkey, an open source testing tool for optimizing automated and unit testing of Adobe Flex RIAs, is another example of Gorilla Logic’s commitment to assisting clients and the market in developing the highest-quality applications possible.

Adobe Flash Based GetJar Surpasses a Half Billion Downloads

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:15:00 EDT

GetJar, the world’s largest independent app store, announced today that more than a half billion applications have been downloaded from its store. The milestone is significant because it proves that consumer demand for apps is becoming a truly global phenomenon. The company, which hosts nearly 50,000 mobile applications available in more than 200 different countries, also unveiled its new logo which is designed to reflect the growing mass market appetite for mobile applications independent of device or platform.

Adobe Flash Media Server on iPhone

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:15:00 EDT

Modulation Index, LLC announced that the Tuner2 Hi-Fi Radio app for Apple iPhone is the first ever iPhone application to natively support the true RTMP protocol for streaming audio via Adobe Flash Media Server. Radio stations can now use a single standard streaming format to serve MPEG-4 HE AAC v2 audio to listeners on Windows, Mac, and Apple iPhone. In addition, Modulation Index announced that this functionality is also available immediately to all station customers taking delivery of customized versions of its iPhone radio app.

Dell Download Store Adds Adobe

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:15:00 EDT

The Dell Download Store today added another top-tier software publisher – Adobe Systems Incorporated – to its U.S. roster of convenient, competitively priced downloads. Dell’s online software superstore, established in January, features downloads from a variety of publishers, including four of the largest software providers in the U.S. – Adobe, Microsoft, Intuit and Symantec.

Adobe ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder Public Betas Now Available

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:00:00 EDT

Adobe announced the public betas of Adobe ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder software. ColdFusion 9, a powerful development technology for building dynamic Web sites and Internet applications, increases developer productivity, integrates with complex enterprise environments and delivers rich and interactive experiences for users. ColdFusion Builder is a new Eclipse based integrated development environment (IDE) used for rapidly developing ColdFusion applications.

AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo Kicks Off in New York City

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:00:00 EDT

In the tight economy, front-end engineers and front-end engineering can play a conspicuous role: good user experience, as the iPhone spectacularly demonstrates, means good business. At the 7th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo which opened Monday in New York, the speaker lineup is as usual dripping with real-world expertise. So here we bring you an A-Z of Front-End & RIA Engineering in the form of the sessions we're serving up today and tomorrow.

Adobe Tries Commercializing Its Online Software

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:30:00 EDT

Acrobat.com, Adobe’s nascent, still-evolving online productivity software, moved out of public beta Monday and into its first foray into commercialization, ahead of any similar move into the cloud by Microsoft. The base widgetry will still be free but Adobe has created two paid subscriptions meant for business users that add capacity and capabilities to the otherwise freebie software.

Adobe's Major Update to Acrobat.com

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:30:00 EDT

“Acrobat.com is poised to become the online destination for team collaboration, with the tools business people need to get work done faster, together, from anywhere. Our customers have moved from e-mailing multiple versions of documents back and forth to collaborating on documents directly in a fluid online environment,” said Rob Tarkoff, senior vice president, Adobe’s Business Productivity Business Unit. “Over the next 12 months, we will continue to add powerful yet simple-to-use team collaboration capabilities that establish a new way to work, while removing barriers to getting work done within and across companies and around the world.”

VeriSign Code Signing Digital Certificates for Adobe AIR Technology

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EDT

Learn how to digitally sign your applications on Adobe® AIR™ with a VeriSign® Code Signing Digital Certificate, which verifies the authenticity of the publisher and the integrity of the product.

Creating Layered PDFs with Escape Calls to the PDF Converter Printer

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EDT

The PDF format allows creating groups of mutually exclusive layers where showing one layer will automatically hide the other. These are called radio-button groups and defined using the RBGroups PDF keyword. One can also define which layers are visible by default and which are hidden, for example: /RBGroups [[ 11 0 R 13 0 R]] /ON[ 11 0 R] /OFF [13 0 R] indicates that layers 11 and 13 are grouped and that layer 11 is visible by default whereas 13 is invisible.

Adobe AIR for Linux Alpha Now on Adobe Labs

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:30:00 EDT

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced that the pre-release alpha version of Adobe AIR software for Linux® operating systems is available on Adobe Labs (www.adobe.com/go/airlinux). The Linux community of developers can now use proven Web technologies, such as HTML, Ajax, Adobe Flash® and Adobe Flex® software, to build rich Internet applications (RIAs) that deploy to desktops across operating systems. RIA developers can extend the reach of their desktop applications on Adobe AIR to Linux users without writing additional platform-specific code, providing access to innovative, branded desktop applications that were previously only available to Mac and Windows users.

Growth by Leveraging Adobe Scene7

Thu, 28 May 2009 08:45:00 EDT

Adobe announced that House of Fraser, a premium U.K. department store group with 62 locations across the U.K. and Ireland, has achieved higher conversion rates, increased average order size and greater customer retention with the Adobe® Scene7® hosted rich-media platform.

Creating Adobe AIR Native Menu with Flash CS4

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:00:00 EDT

Menus are an integral part of your life as a software user. You find them on the Web, in desktop applications, on your own operating system, and even on mobile devices like cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) . You often don’t realize how important menus are when you use them. It’s so obvious to have them that you only realize how important they are when they aren’t available. On the Web, you normally have menus regarding the browser, which allow you to access the content of the site you are using. You rarely have menus that give you access to the specific commands and functions of the website. However, things are changing slowly with the advent of Web 2.0 applications, and menus—not only browsing menus but those specifically related to the web application—are becoming more and more frequent. As Flash web developers, you have the following options to create menus for your applications: Adding items to the context menu provided by Flash Player Creating your own menus Both options work very well, but the option of using Flash Player’s context menu doesn’t give you much flexibility. The other option requires a substantial amount of time and effort to obtain valid results if you create the menus for your web application from scratch. When you develop Adobe AIR applications with Flash CS4, you don’t need to worry about how to offer advanced functions with a menu. The framework itself provides various solutions to choose from according to your needs. AIR implements two new classes that aren’t available for Flash Player in a web environment in the flash.display package : NativeMenu NativeMenuItem These classes allow you to create native system menus to use as application menus (on Mac OS X systems), window menus (on Windows systems), pop- up menus, and context menus.

How Sustainability and Adobe Acrobat 9 Can Save Any Organization Time and Money

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:00:00 EDT

Participants will learn how to increase workplace sustainability with 'eco-effective' communication and collaboration workflows. Made possible though a generous sponsorship grant from Adobe, the eSeminar supports the ISC's mission to increase the understanding of sustainability best practices and to assist individuals and organizations in adopting more sustainable print and digital media workflows aligns with Earth Day.

Ulitzer Responds to Published Reports

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:45:00 EDT

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our readers, authors, and the newly born Ulitzer community for making our March 29 beta launch an astonishing success! Ulitzer is on its way to becoming one of the fastest growing professional viral sites on the Internet.

Clear Toolkit 4: The Road Map

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:00:00 EDT

Here’s the roadmap for Clear Toolkit 4 for the year of 2009: 1. Offer data syncrhonization solution for AIR/BlaseDS applications - March 2009 2. Enhance Flex UI component to support PDF generation on the client - April 2009 3. Release documentation on classes from Clear component library (clear.swc) - May 2009. 4. Offer a solution for Flex-based portals - May 2009 5. Open source most of the components of Clear Toolkit - August 2009

Adobe and Facebook Drive Next Generation of Social Applications

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:15:00 EDT

Adobe and Facebook today announced a joint effort to enable Web developers to create more compelling applications using the Adobe® Flash® Platform and Facebook Platform. Officially supported by Adobe and Facebook, the new ActionScript 3 Client Library for Facebook Platform is a free and open source programming language library that is expected to be a complete resource supporting all Facebook application programming interfaces (APIs) including Facebook Connect.

Adobe's Progress Report

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:45:00 EDT

This week Microsoft will make a number of announcements in the RIA space. The rumor has it that Silverlight 3 is going to be out. The rumor has it that it'll start competing with Adobe AIR. Let's take a quick look at the Adobe's progress report in the RIA space.