ColdFusion Developer's Journal

Will Corporate America Embrace the iPhone? Apple is a “change” company. Look at their track record: Mac II, iMac, iPod and now the iPhone. What has not changed, however, is the view of Apple a company that delivers only consumer based products. Apple simply is not perceived as a... (more)

A perspective client showed me a Web page from Adobe’s Connect Now. Check this page out before reading further: https://connectnow.acrobat.com/ “Yakov, I want our new application to be like that one. The page comes up really fast and it’s very responsive. Can you create our Flex ... (more)

Adobe AIR on Ulitzer 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 un... (more)

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 ser... (more)

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, whi... (more)

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, ... (more)

With the advent of ZK 5 come some very important changes. LGPL License: ZK 5 is now moving over to the LGPL license offering more freedom and allowing ZK to be integrated with other frameworks that use different licensing models. Freedom of use Client+Server Fusion: With ZK 5's ... (more)

ColdFusion Developer's Journal 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 comp... (more)

Background information PDF Layers are called Optional Content within the PDF specifications. This is a feature that was added as of PDF-1.5 (Acrobat 6.) A layer is identified by an identifier and a title. Only the layer title is visible to the end-user of the PDF document. Layers... (more)

Adobe has re-opened the "Adobe Flex Builder 3 for unemployed developers" program. It means that "Adobe Flex Builder 3" software is currently available for free, while supplies last, for software developers who are affected by the current economic condition and are currently unemp... (more)

Cloud Hosting Journal NaviSite is doing what many hosting companies are doing these days: getting into cloud computing. And they are getting plenty of attention in the process. At Mezeo, we are proud that NaviSite is using the Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform software as part of its... (more)

This weekend I read a blog by a well known person in Flex community and found a very interesting phrase there:"If you take a careful look at Catalyst it flips the % of design and development work within an app. Where development was 80% of an app, it is now 20% and Design/Interac... (more)

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 AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo which opened Monday in New York City, the... (more)

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 ... (more)

I've missed the Flash Camp Keynote in San Francisco where  Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch mentioned that AIR reached over 200 million installs.  The Adobe AIR Team blog wrote that the Acrobat.com application provided with Adobe Reader continues to be one of the most popular applications. ... (more)

Did you notice our subscribers list update? Now, you can receive Graphic Mania all posts and and free resources updates right to your email address, in full HTML and images. You can save the images and backgrounds you need directly to your computer and get the free resources dow... (more)

Adobe Systems announced Acrobat.com has moved out of public beta and will offer two new paid subscription services that add capacity and capabilities for intensive business use. Since Acrobat.com first launched in June 2008, 5 million people have signed up to use the innovative... (more)

To focus our efforts in this article series we define the beginning and end points. The Beginning Point You want to establish a new business on the Internet because of all the advantages you know exist with doing business exclusively on the Internet.  Just to list a few: No ne... (more)

Learn how to digitally sign your applications on Adobe® AIRTM with a VeriSign® Code Signing Digital Certificate, which verifies the authenticity of the publisher and the integrity of the product. Click Here to Download This White Paper!   ... (more)

Adobe AIR 1.5 Is Cool Because 1. AIR allows you to perform all I/O operation with the file system on the user’s desktop. 2. AIR allows you to sign applications and version application. 3. AIR offers an updater to ensure proper upgrades of the applications on the user’s desktop 4. A... (more)