The Fusebox folks are running a video contest, create a video presentation showing how to go from zero-to-app in a few short minutes using Fusebox and ColdFusion, and win a prize.

Here is some more information about the first public beta release of Flex 3 (now available on Adobe labs), the first major deliverable for the open source Flex project (including a public bug base, and the beginning of public nightly builds) ...

Some of the new features in Flex Builder 3 are:

• Built-in support for the new Adobe Integrated Runtime (formerly Apollo)
• Code re-factoring
• Memory and performance profilers
• SWF file size reduction using a persistent framework cache in Flash Player
• Advanced datagrid (this is the one I've been eagerly awaiting)
• CS3 and Flex integration
• Web service introspection

Manjukiran Pacchhipulusu is a ColdFusion QA Lead, and he's blogging on CF8 features.

Bhakti Pingale is also on the ColdFusion QA team, and she's blogging on ColdFusion 8 Ajax functionality.

Create an AIR (formerly Apollo) application, enter it into the Adobe AIR Developer Derby, and you could win the trip of a lifetime - a travel certificate valued at up to US$100,000, to be used for the travel of your choice! Other cool prizes too. Details online.

Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), formerly known as Apollo, is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to use their existing web development skills to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop. And you can get it right now on Labs.

Yep, the Flex 3 beta is now available for download from Labs.