An A – Z of RIA Frameworks: From Adobe AIR to Zimbra Kabuki AJAX Toolkit

from : COLDFUSION DEVELOPER’S JOURNAL

From AIR to ZK, this is an alphabetical round-up of the fast moving-world of application development tools and frameworks spawned ever since the appearance of Google Maps, the canonical early RIA. The list includes AIR, Appcelerator, ATF, Curl, Dojo, Echo, Eclipse RCP, Flex, GWT, JavaFX, Kabuki, Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 platform, OpenLaszlo, Prototype, Rico, Ruby on Rails, Seam, Silverlight, ThinWire, TIBCO GI, ULC, Yahoo! User Interface Library, Zend Framework, and ZK.

Adobe and O’Reilly launched InsideRIA

InsideRIA.com is an online community developed by O’Reilly and sponsored by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Our goal is to create an invaluable resource for information on the ever-changing state of design and development of rich Internet applications (RIAs).

Link : http://insideria.com/

InfoQ On Flex Frameworks

Adobe Flex and the technologies surrounding it are becoming mainstream in the RIA space. Even though the Flex community is still much smaller than those of Java or Microsoft platform, it’s growing steadily with significant contributions from dedicated Flex RIA developers.

Link:http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/01/flex-mvc

Two More ColdFusion Surveys

Two More ColdFusion Surveys

Orginal message from Ben Forta Blog

As part of our “Centaur” planning, please fill in the ColdFusion 8 Features Used survey and the ColdFusion Platform And Vendors survey. And the more respondents the better, so forward these URLs to every CF developer you know.

10 ColdFusion Hosts Under $10/month

I’d like to start off by thanking everyone who commented on my first ColdFusion Host Post. Comments from those with host experience is extremely helpful when considering whether or not to take a chance with some of the lower-priced hosting providers.

Since I wrote my first CF Host post, I signed up for an account with HostFolio. So far they have been fantastic. I have spoken personally with support and they were very accommodating and helpful which gave me a nice feeling right from the start. Then, to reinforce my positive experience even further, they upgraded to CF 8 in August. Performance has not been an issue and the one time there was downtime it was for scheduled maintenance which I was notified of well in advance. In addition, the only tags that HostFolio disables are CFREGISTER and CFEXECUTE. I can’t speak personally for any of the other hosts on this list but I will give HostFolio a big thumbs up.

Removed from the list are IX Web Hosting and Host Department. If they choose to upgrade from CF5/6.1 they may make it back on the list but for now, being that far behind is simply unacceptable.

Added, thanks to user comments, are two new hosts: Canwebhost.com and HostNexus. Canwebhost offers an $8/month plan. At 50mb disk space and 2G Bandwidth I wouldn’t call the plan robust, but at least they’re offering CF7. HostNexus offers a 300M/10G plan for $9.95/month.

Hosting-ColdFusion just misses the list because of an extra $2/month charge for a real database.

So, here they are for September ‘07:

10 ColdFusion Hosts Under $10/month, September 2007

Host	Price/mo	Price/yr	Setup	Disk	Traffic	CF	Anumina	$8.95	-	-	2G	1000G	MX 7
Canwebhost	$8	-	-	50G	2G	MX 7
DailyRazor	$7.95	$95.40	-	1G	50G	MX 7
Gearworx	$15.95	$119.40	-	4G	55G	MX 7
Hostfolio	$9.95	$99.95	-	4.5G	125G	8
Hostingatoz	-	$64.99	-	1G	20G	MX 7
HostingFuse	$8.00	$80.00	-	200M	6G	MX 7
HostNexus	$9.95	-	-	300M	10G	MX 7
Viux	$9.95	-	-	1G	10G	MX 7
Xtreme Host	$9.98	-	-	3G	15G	MX 7

Reference :http://www.rabidgadfly.com/?p=48

Adobe Flex 3/AIR Launch Events

Join the Chennai ColdFusion User Group for this “can’t miss” meeting!

Event: Adobe’s RIA technologies enable you to rapidly build and deploy the most engaging applications across browsers and on the desktop. The Chennai ColdFusion User Group is hosting a special live event to share exciting new information on Adobe’s platform tools and technologies for building RIAs. You’ll see an exclusive user group video presentation by Adobe Chief Software Architect, Kevin Lynch, hear some important product news, plus get your hands on some exclusive schwag and other giveaways.

Be part of the fun and excitement and join the rest of the Adobe developer community by participating in this very special event.

Date: Monday, February 25

Join Chennai ColdFusion User Group on this day and win a sure Flex 3/AIR T-Shirts.  One  lucky winner will get  Flex 3 Professional from Adobe.

Chennai ColdFusion User Group.

Intelligent Enterprise: Adobe One Of Most Influential Enterprise Vendors In 2008

Intelligent Enterprise handed out their 2008 Editors’ Choice Awards, declaring that “Adobe is the key company to watch in the race toward mastery of RIA/Web 2.0 development.”, and noting that “Adobe has a strongly positioned client (Flash) on millions of computers, a corps of evolving development tools (Flex, AIR, ColdFusion)”.

Flex and AIR User Group Pre-release Tour

Hi Friends ,

Adobe planning for a huge Flex/AIR pre-releasetour from mid Jan through mid Feb please join the community to enhance your knowledge on this Adobe Products.

lex and AIR User Group Pre-release Tour

Flex 3 and AIR are getting close to launch and in preparation, the Adobe
Platform Evangelist team is traveling to select cities to show off the
great new features and some brand new demos.

Flex 3 is a feature-packed release, adding new UI components like the
advanced datagrid and improved CSS capabilities; powerful tooling
additions like refactoring; and extensive testing tools including memory
and performance profiling, plus the addition of the automated testing
framework to Flex Builder.

Adobe AIR is game-changing in so many ways, extending rich applications
to the desktop, enabling access to the local file system, system tray,
notifications and much more. Now you can write desktop applications
using the same skills that you’ve been already using to create great web
apps including both Flex and AJAX.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to see and hear about this highly
anticipated release of Flex 3 and AIR during this special pre-release
tour. Plus, in addition to giving away some one of a kind Flex/AIR
branded schwag, we will also be raffling off a copy of Flex Builder 3
Professional (pending availability) and a full commercial copy of CS3
Web Premium at this event!

Check out the comprehensive listing of dates at flex.org/tour to see if
the tour is coming to your city!