Computerworld is running a story by JR Raphael entitled Why the Apple crowd's completely wrong about Flash about his experience with Android and Flash Player 10.1. I love this quote:

After installing Adobe's Flash Player onto my Android phone, the first thing I noticed was that I could suddenly access the entire Web.

Enough said!

Title says it all, Cumulative Hotfix 1 (CHF1) for ColdFusion 9.0.1 has been released.

SapphireSteel has announced the release of Amethyst, their Flex, Flash and ActionScript IDE for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. Check out the features and the introductory video. If you are a Visual Studio user, Amethyst may be exactly what you need to bridge the worlds of Flash and .NET.

On a personal note, I've been in regular contact with the SapphireSteel folks as Amethyst has evolved. This project, especially the Amethyst Designer, was an enormous undertaking on their part. And so to Huw Collingbourne and the crew at SapphireSteel, congratulations on reaching this milestone, and thank you for this important contribution to the Flash and Flex world.

The site is in Chinese, I know. But, in summary, the Adobe Flash Platform App Contest is a way for developers in China to build cool Flash and AIR apps and win prizes. ;-)

Hero is the codename for the next version of the Flex SDK. Deepa Subramaniam is the Flex SDK Product Manager, and she just announced that the first of what is planned to be semi-regular Hero builds has been posted.

The Wall Street Journal is running a story about the increased demand for Flash expertise.

Plants vs Zombies is one of my favorite casual games (my kids agree with me on this one). The original game was written in C++, and PopCap recently rewrote it in Flash. PopCap's Max Anderson will be attending MAX 2010 and will be talking about the port, and will be providing Flash performance optimization tips and tricks. This promises to be a fun and entertaining session.

Now, if they had an Android version ...

Adobe Flash Summit Bangalore is about to begin. My fellow presenters Mark Doherty, Harish Sivaramakrishnan, and Anne Kathrine Petterøe are tweaking decks and testing demos. The crowds are starting to pour in ... here goes!

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John Farrar has updated his ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial. Congrats, John!

Here's how.

As per Gartner research reported in this InfoWorld story, Android is now the number one smartphone OS in North America (taking the top spot from RIM), and is third in the world.

Recently, Christophe Coenraets posted a great example of using the microphone API introduced in the latest builds of Adobe AIR for Android. And now Michaël Chaize has taken it a step further by posting an example of recording audio, and then manipulating WAV and MP3 files.

MyEclipse for Spring 8.6 has been announced, and it includes support for Flex.

Computerworld's Howard Wen provides 6 reasons why Flash isn't going away, and notes that "Heralding HTML 5 as the new Web media king is premature".

Flash Player 10.1 for Android has been in beta on the Android Marketplace for a while, but today we released the final version, and it's available for:

• Google Nexus One - Download from Android Market
• HTC Evo 4G - Included with the Android 2.2 update from HTC
• HTC Desire - Included with the Android 2.2 update from HTC
• Motorola DROID 2 - Devices ship with Flash Player 10.1 pre-installed

In addition to Android, mobile platforms including Web OS, BlackBerry, MeeGo, LiMo, a future version of Windows Phone 7 and others will deliver support for Flash Player 10.1 over the coming months. Many of the new devices are expected to come pre-installed with full Flash.

Motorola Droid is now shipping with Flash. Learn how you can get started creating and optimizing content for a great mobile Flash experience. Join MOTODEV & Adobe experts for an evening of networking, pizza, beer and frozen yogurt. Anyone from the curious to the hardcore developers is welcome to participate. The DROID Does Flash event is Thursday, September 16, 2010 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM.

Adobe MAX 2010 early bird pricing ends today! Hurry!

LA Gadgets Examiner Daryl Deino has a story entitled Adobe proves that Flash can work on mobile devices in which he writes:

First, let me apologize to Adobe for all the harsh articles on how Flash is outdated, how it doesn't work on mobile devices and how HTML5 is taking over. After using Adobe Flash with my HTC EVO and Android's Froyo operating system, I am now a believer.

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For the past couple of days, I have been watching content directly from YouTube, streaming Flash videos from CNET, enjoying episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants (okay, laugh at me) on Nickelodian, watching Flash enabled video clips on Foxnews.com, and basically enjoying Flash content all over the web. For the first time, I feel like I truly have the Internet in my hands.

Ah, welcome back from the dark side, Daryl!

Frank X. Shaw, Vice President of Corporate Communications at Microsoft, recently posted an entry entitled Microsoft by the numbers. Regardless of how you feel about Microsoft or their products, this one provides some very interesting perspective on desktops versus netbooks and tables, smartphone market share, as well as industry income.

ColdObject is a new MVC framework for ColdFusion development. Its creator, Bolling Technology, claims that this MVC implementation manages to strike a better balance between structure and rapid development. ColdObject is already in use at U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and is currently being evaluated by U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).

An important ColdFusion security hotfix has been released for ColdFusion 8.x and 9.x. This hotfix addresses a potential vulnerability in ColdFusion Administrator.

HostelBookers is running a survey about ColdFusion development and perceptions. Fill in the survey you'll get the chance to win all 3 volumes of our recently completed ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit.

Motorola and Verizon have announced that the eagerly anticipated Droid 2 goes on sale tomorrow! And the Droid 2 becomes the first Android phone to ship with Flash Player 10.1 preinstalled!

We've been writing, presenting, discussing, and blogging the ColdFusion Java relationship extensively for close to a decade now. But, with each new edition of ColdFusion there is new content to cover. And so ColdFusion engineering team member Vinu Kumar has written an ADC article on Building ColdFusion applications using Java in which he discusses JBoss deployment and portal server integration, rewriting JSP in CFML, and accessing Java from within your CFML code.

MAXtopia is the theme of Adobe MAX 2010 - a unique opportunity to connect with thousands of designers, developers, and business leaders as we shape the future of digital media together. Your challenge is to design an awesome tee inspired by MAXtopia: the celebration of nature + technology! Your design could net you a full CS5 Design Premium, and it could play a major role at the Adobe MAX event! Details over on threadless.