http://neilmiddleton.com Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:39:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This morning I was confronted with an email telling me about Adobe's new release of Acrobat 9 reader. Whoop-de-doo I hear you cry...and that's exactly what I thought (I don't really care much for PDF). However, I duly went to the download site and noticed a couple of small interesting ... http://neilmiddleton.com/2008/07/04/theres-a-whole-load-more-air-on-the-way/ I've just seen on one of the many BBC editorial blogs that they have now re-released their age-old windows based news ticker application as an AIR app. For me this is an interesting one for a couple of reasons - firstly, that this will result in a massive deployment of AIR ... http://neilmiddleton.com/2008/07/02/bbc-launches-air-based-news-ticker/ On my way home today I was listening, as always, to one of the many podcasts that I subscribe to.  In this particular instance, I was listening to podcast #11 of the stackoverflow.com podcast hosted by Jeff Attwood and Joel Spolsky.  The podcast follows the development of stackoverflow.com, but turns ... http://neilmiddleton.com/2008/07/01/flash-is-un-webby/ I've been spending a bit of time recently taking a look at the RIA market as a whole and the tools that are available within.  During this time, I've been spending most of that looking at Adobe's Flex and Microsoft's Silverlight. For a little context, for those of you that don't ... http://neilmiddleton.com/2008/06/29/flex-vs-silverlight-in-my-eyes/ During Scotch last week I presented two sessions. One was jQuery in a nutshell and the other Unit testing and Continuous Integration with ColdFusion. In both I said I would post the presentations themselves and sample code so here it all is: jQuery in a nutshell Presentation Slides Sample Code Unit Testing and ... http://neilmiddleton.com/2008/06/08/jquery-and-unit-testing-at-scotch-on-the-rocks-2008/ Railo goes Open Source on JBoss.org "Swiss software company Railo announced today plans to release an open source version of the Railo CFML engine hosted at JBoss.org, the website of the leading provider of open source Java middleware. This will provide developers with a top-quality CFML engine available for free under ... http://neilmiddleton.com/2008/06/08/the-railo-30-press-release/ I was just browsing around some of the feeds that I follow catching up after three days at Scotch, when I came across a post from Vince Bonfanti of New Atlanta - the people behind Bluedragon. Nothing much you might think, being a post about BlueDragon 7.1 at Microsoft's TechEd conference ... http://neilmiddleton.com/2008/06/07/are-new-atlanta-genuine-about-cfml/ Yup, 1.2.6 is now out (and is still just primarily a bug fix drop for 1.2),  and the events handling functionality is 103% faster.  But wait, that's just the headline: CSS Selectors are 13% faster .offset() is 21% faster The DImensions plugin is now part of the core toggle() can now accept more functions attr() ... http://neilmiddleton.com/2008/06/06/jquery-126-drops-and-its-even-faster/ OK, so now that the dust has settled and everyone has had the oppourtunity to take a good look at what has been going on with the open sourcing of Railo (and we've had a chance to talk to Gert Franz about it) let's review some of the facts: Railo is ... http://neilmiddleton.com/2008/06/06/245/ As of tomorrow, Railo 3.1 is an open source product as announced today by Gert Franz from Railo at Scotch on the Rocks 2008.  Hosted by JBoss.org, the product will be supported by a much larger community than can be provided purely by the CFML community. So, now we are left ... http://neilmiddleton.com/2008/06/05/railo-31-goes-open-source/