At MAX 2009 we announced the ability to create native iPhone applications using Flash CS5. And now fellow Adobe Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow has posted a superb video tutorial explaining how to do just this.

MAX 2009 attendees were treated to a sneak preview of Avatar (which is due in theaters worldwide on December 18th, 2009). And now the Avatar AIR desktop application is available for you to download! CNET calls the app a must-see, and I agree!

The current alpha of Flex Builder for Linux has a hard-coded expiration date of December 1st, 2009. To enable Linux users to continue using Flex Builder past that date, the Flex team has announced an update (no features changes, just the expiration extension).

A few weeks ago I mentioned ChessJam, a Flex/AIR/ColdFusion/LCDS app built by Greg Wilson and some of his pals. Greg has since posted technical details on how the app works. (He actually posted this last week, but I missed it while on the road).

Rob Wood teaches ColdFusion to kids in Bayfield High School in New Zealand (using the free for education ColdFusion license). He has posted links to his students work online.

The newly formed CFUG.nl is hosting its second meeting this week at the Adobe offices in Amsterdam. Details are posted online.

Fellow Adobe Platform Evangelist Tom Krcha has written an article for ADC entitled Using peer-to-peer applications on the Adobe Flash Platform in which he explains Adobe Stratus and Adobe LiveCycle Collaboration Service.

Title says it all. AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.1 are now both live on Adobe Labs.

As mentioned at cf.Objective(ANZ) yesterday, the ColdFusion 9 EULA has changed to allow for development, testing, and staging servers. See this great thread on Terry Ryan's blog on the subject.

AIR 2 adds support for the detection of storage volume mounting (for example, when your digital camera is plugged in). Kevin Lynch demoed this functionality at MAX last month, and now Christian Cantrell has posted a demonstration that shows how this all works.

A few weeks after releasing the Photoshop.com iPhone client (which I've been using this week in Australia), now we've added an Android client.

With so many products, and with so many people asking first about Snow Leopard compatibility and now about support for Windows 7, we've created a new page to summarize this information. The Adobe product operating system compatibility page is your one stop shop for product OS compatibility information, complete with relevant links to specific product pages and FAQs.

I am in Australia for the week. I spent yesterday in Sydney for a series of meetings and presentations, and last night I climbed the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Today I am in Melbourne, and joined Andrew Spaulding for a series of customer meetings, and am now sitting in on FarCry DevCamp.

Tomorrow morning I'll be at cf.Objective(ANZ) and will be tag-teaming with Terry Ryan to present the opening keynote.

This episode is definitely worth watching!

Did Dan Heick really comment on my haircut?!?!?!

I just received three new translations of my books, two into Simplified Chinese and one into Korean:

• Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL In 10 Minutes is now available in Simplified Chinese
• MySQL Crash Course is now available in Simplified Chinese
• Sams Teach Yourself SQL In 10 Minutes is now available in Korean

Links to the new translated versions, as well as all other translations, are on the specific book pages.

I am particularity excited about the Korean translation, as this is my first book in Korean, bringing the number of languages that my books have been translated into to 16. Here is a full list of all the translations (that I am aware of).

Fellow Adobian Terry White (a rock star in the CS world) has created an iPhone app to teach you Creative Suite. Pretty slick!

ColdFusion DevCamp takes place this Saturday at Adobe's San Francisco office. This will be an interactive event where attendees will work in small teams to build projects using ideas from the team members or from a suggested list of projects. This event is free and will be led by community members and ColdFusion Program Manager Adam Lehman, and food will be provided.

Later this month we'll be running a series of free full day seminars for ColdFusion developers, focused on getting started with Flex, using Flash Builder 4, and ColdFusion Flex integration. We'll be hosting events in Plano TX, Durham NC, Denver CO, Newport Beach CA, Atlanta GA, Chicago IL, Washington D.C., and San Francisco CA (in that order) from November 13th, 2009 through November 20th, 2009. Details and registration info online.

It looks like the ColdFusion as a Service feature is really catching on! Last week I mentioned a new SitePoint article on the subject. And now Matt Gifford has posted an excellent and thorough article on the subject entitled ColdFusion as a Service (part 1) (which I assume implies that he plans a Part 2). Matt explains the basics, and covers the ActionScript proxy classes in detail. Highly recommended!