Adobe Developer Week Breeze recordings are all posted on the Adobe Developer Week page.

Lots of CFUNITED pictures on Flickr, (included this action shot) all grouped using tag CFUNITED.

House of Fusion has used CFUNITED to launch a new technical journal on ColdFusion, the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. The inaugural issue contains article by Raymond Camden on Application.cfc and how it should be used, Matt Woodward on Flash forms, and Joe Rinehart on the new Model-Glue:Unity. There's lots more, too. This is well worth taking a look at.

House Of Fusion is running a contest at CFUNITED, take a cool, quirky, crazy, or exception picture of the goings on here, and you could win a prize. Details here.

Day one of CFUNITED is winding down (aside from what I suspect will be a long evening of hanging out at the bar). Michael Smith and crew have outdone themselves once again, with over 900 attendees (over a 1000 including staff and exhibitors).

This morning's keynote went very well. I presented ColdFusion powered Flex, demonstrating the Flex Builder ColdFusion wizards and a Flex Data Services example. I also reviewed pricing and deployment options, and the assembled were ecstatic when they heard what the final pricing is. Next came Jason Delmore, ColdFusion's new Product Manager, who talked a bit about "Scorpio", and demonstrated examples of ColdFusion integration with PDF forms and ColdFusion generated Breeze content. And then we introduced ColdFusion's new Product Marketing Manager, our very own Tim Buntel, dragged back in from semi-retirement-kind-of.

The rest of the day has been a blur of customer chats and meetings. Flex 2 is definitely a big deal, as is the relief at seeing Adobe still committed to ColdFusion. (I am not going to say "I told you so", but ...).

And now it's time to head downstairs to that bar ...

Emmy Huang has posted lots of details on Flash Player 9, including lots of invaluable links, a captivate demo on the express install process, a FAQ, and more.

It's been two years since Macromedia first released Flex, giving us a glimpse of what the future of web application development could (and should) look like. During this time Flex has been successfully deployed in a variety of organizations, both public and private. The highest profile Flex deployment to date is obviously Yahoo! Maps, which is built using Flex 1.5. And now Adobe Flex 2 has arrived, adding lots more functionality, and making Flex far more accessible to developers everywhere. What does this mean for us ColdFusion developers? This Dev Center article explains.

The wait is over! Flex 2 has just been released, and that includes Flex Builder 2, Flex Data Services 2, and the ColdFusion 7.0.2 update.

To learn more about Flex 2 visit the Flex Developer Center. Also visit Flex.org for Flex technical and support resources (from both Adobe and the developer community).

Ashwin Mathew is a member of the ColdFusion engineering team in our Bangalore office, and he is now blogging.

Getting to D.C. took a long time today. Actually, I don't think it has ever taken me longer to get here than it did today! But I am here, and am hidden away working on my CFUNITED keynote. More to follow.

The International Registry of FlexCoders wants to track Flex coders worldwide. Feel free to sign up and spread the word.

SqueezePlay is a real time compression engine for IIS, capable of achieving as much as 10 to 1 reduction in data size. SqueezePlay requires Windows and IIS4 or later, and will compress HTML, XML, JavaScript, GIF, JPEG, PNG, and even PDF files. And the new SqueezePlay 2 also supports ColdFusion. I'm not quite sure what "Support for Cold Fusion applications" means, I'd have thought that if it runs at the IIS level then any app served by IIS would be supported, but, still, if bandwidth costs are an issue this may well be worth a look at. Free 30 day evaluation version is available.

So much for consolidating posts. Here are a couple more CF positions available:

• Hunter Warfield (Tampa, FL) is looking for an expert-level CF developer. Requirements include 6+ years experience in advanced CF, and experience with XML, XSL, CFCs, advanced SQL, etc. Contact Alex Sherwood.
• NATC (Birmingham, AL) is looking for a ColdFusion developer. Requirements include at least 2 years CF experience, and strong knowledge of Transact SQL. Details online.

Is it just me, or does it seem like ColdFusion developers are suddenly in demand all over the place? It's great to see!

Sys-Con has announced that the first event in the Real-World Flex One-Day Seminar series will take place on August 14, 2006, at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. Adobe Systems Inc. is the platinum sponsor of this event.

Lots of CF positions to be filled. So as not to upset too many of you, I am combining these posts:

• eCivis (Pasadena, CA) is looking for Senior ColdFusion Developer to work on a SaaS project. Requirements include 3 years CF, knowledge of Mach-II and/or Model-Glue. Contact technology@ecivis.com.
• PowerOne Media (Ann Arbor, MI) is looking for a Lead Cold Fusion Software Developer. Requirements include 5+ years of experience, strong database skills, able to mentor and assist team members. Contact Matt McDonald.
• mediaSPA (Rye, NY) is looking for a Senior ColdFusion Programmer for a full-time position. Contact Jim Gurfein.
• Private Client Resources (Wilton, CT) is looking for a ColdFusion Developer. Requirements include 3+ years of ColdFusion development, bachelor's degree in information technology or equivalent experience, strong relational database skills. Contact HR@privateclientresources.com.
• A private company which performs development work for government client (Washington D.C.) is looking for 3 intermediate and advanced ColdFusion Developers. Requirements include ColdFusion MX experience, database experience (Oracle preferred), must be good at documenting their own code, must show competent implementation of MVC. Contact Rebecca Megel.

Will Tomlinson of ColdFusionGear has released several new ColdFusion shirts, a new ColdFusion polo, and his first Flex shirt. He has also created (with the prompting of Mike Dinowitz, thanks Mike!) the shirt seen here. No comment! ;-)

Last week I presented an Adobe Developer Week session entitled "ColdFusion Powered Flex". As promised, the recording of that session is now online.

Lars Gronholt wrote to tell me about LegalWarfare - Trial by Firepower!, a WebComic powered by ColdFusion. He also pointed out a strip featuring ColdFusion.

iTools is a web site management system for Mac OSX. It is used to manage Apache, MySQL, and more. And as per a Mac News Network story, the just released iTools 8.2.2 has added support for ColdFusion. If anyone has experience with iTools and has used the ColdFusion support, please share.

The first public beta of Model-Glue:Unity is available for download. It has many of the same capabilities as Ruby on Rails and ColdFusion on Wheels, as well as:

• Automatic record validation.
• Allows implicit invocation, where one event can fire multiple controller methods, instead of a single page mapping directly to one controller mapping.
• No need to learn pluralization rules.
• Separation of labels and messages into XML files for internationalization.
• Customizable "scaffolds" via XSL.
• Pluggable framework via ColdSpring.
• And more.

Joe Rinehart has blogged details, and also posted a YouTube video of using it to create a blog.

And talking about Joe and Model-Glue, he'll be presenting ColdFusion and Model-Glue at an Adobe Developer Week session tomorrow, and there are still a few attendee slots left. If you want to learn more about Model-Glue, don't miss this opportunity.

The New York Times is running a story about a ring tone that can be heard by kids, but not by adults. As per the story, most adults suffer from presbycusis, aging of the ear. And as a result, the older you get the less likely you are to hear sounds at higher frequencies. Which means that kids can now use a ring tone that their folks won't hear (I don't know if that's a really good thing, or really scary). There is a link on the page to an MP3 of the ring tone, but I don't know if it's for real as I can't hear anything when I play it! :-(

Version 0.5 of ColdFusion On Wheels (ColdFusion's answer for those with Ruby On Rails envy) has been released.

Brian Kotek has written an article for Builder.com entitled Take advantage of an opportunity while the ColdFusion landscape is hot in which he summarizes why "it's never been a better time to be a ColdFusion developer".

As per the press release, "McAfee, Inc. ... today announced that Foundstone Professional Services will launch a series of free tools that teach developers, programmers, architects and security professionals how to create more secure software. The tools will also review the root causes of increasingly prolific crimes such as e-shoplifting, session hi-jacking and identity theft." The tools take the form of actual applications written in a variety of languages and platforms, so as to "replicate interconnected real-world application scenarios including travel, banking and shipping, each written in a different programming language, to demonstrate the potential cross-platform risks to a business' own applications, and those they are connected to."

One of the apps, Hacme Shipping, is a "Web based shipping application written in ColdFusion MX7, using the Model-Glue framework and MySQL database."

It's good to see ColdFusion recognized as a legitimate platform, along with the others to be included.

Hello from Mexico City. It's been a few years since I was last here, and I'm glad to be back in this huge, vibrant, hectic, energetic, intense, fun city. I am writing this while looking out of my hotel window over beautiful historic Chapultepec Park (last time I was here I got the opportunity to tour it briefly), and have a view of one of the banderas monumentales (absolutely gigantic Mexican flags scattered throughout the country, this one is approximately 150' by 75', I am on the 21st floor and am looking up at it!).

I'm here for three days of ColdFusion and Flex related events, and will also get the opportunity to speak to the Adobe User Group Mexico tomorrow night. The event is at the JW Marriott in Polanco, and details are on the group site. I hope to see you there!