The Adobe Affiliate Program lets owners of web sites and blogs recommend Adobe software, and make up to 8% on referrals. Lots more details in the program FAQ.

Adobe is looking for ColdFusion users with minimal Flex experience to take part in a research study. You'll need to be available for 2 hours on April 2nd in our San Francisco office, and you'll get paid $150 for the session. If interested, please fill in this survey.

Ok, I'll confess, I don't use Twitter. Really. I just don't get the whole Twitter thing. But, many do. Very many. And fellow Adobe platform evangelist, Serge Jespers, has compiled an impressive list of Adobe folks on Twitter.

I love Fireworks. I've recently started to use Photoshop for some projects. But for day to day use, for resizing pictures or adding drop shadows or doing quick crops or batch resizing ... Fireworks is so quick and clean and simple.

But what about you? Do you use Fireworks, and if yes, how? Where does it fit in your workflow?

Don't answer the question here. Doug Winnie (aka Agent Doug), Adobe's Group Product Manager for Workflow, wants your input over on his blog.

No, that's no a typo, Adobe Hair it is.

Adobe and SitePen have teamed up to create Dojo Extensions for Adobe AIR to make it easier to create rich desktop apps using the Dojo Toolkit and Adobe AIR. More info posted on the SitePen blog.

The Adobe AIR team now has their own official team blog.

NVIDIA Quadro CX is a cutting edge graphics card and accelerator, and has been built specifically for Adobe Creative Suite 4. The specs are pretty impressive, and the darned thing looks so cool, too!

Day 2 of the Adobe RIA Developer Summit here in Bangalore is about to start. Yesterday was pretty incredible. A crowd of close to 400 packed the hall from 9am until after 6pm, and listened to keynotes and sessions in two tracks. Michele Turner and I presented the opening keynote, and I presented an afternoon session on Flex data connectivity, talking about HTTP, Web Services, Flash Remoting, Messaging, and Data Services. Other sessions have covered everything from getting started with Flex to best practices to the Flex event model to creating components to working with video and more. The audience here is highly technical, and the questions and feedback have been constant and relevant and somewhat intense. Silicon India posted a story yesterday.

Government has long been a critical customer segment for us, for all products and for ColdFusion specifically. So I'm pleased to see that the Adobe Government Team has launched a new blog - Adobe in Government.

BOFs (Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions) are informal MAX get togethers, a chance to meet, chat, share, and learn in a less structured and highly interactive environment. We host dozens of BOFs each year, from the ever popular "Meet The Team" sessions, to technical in depth chats on highly specific subjects, to brainstorming sessions around all sorts of technologies, and much more. And once again, we are inviting you to suggest BOF topics. Here's the form.

Dave McAllister is Adobe's resident open initiatives and standards guru, and last night he posted some thoughts on the announcement by the Ecma International Technical Committee 39 (TC39) regarding future work on the ECMAScript standard, and the implications for ActionScript.

SitePoint has posted an entry entitled 15 Companies That Really Get Corporate Blogging, and highlights Adobe, saying:

Adobe offers a huge collection of employee blogs, many of which are great reads. By allowing employees to blog, Adobe has empowered them to evangelize their products for them — many post tutorials, advice, reviews, and other great tid-bits promoting Adobe products — while not pigeon holing them into talking only about Adobe.

Being part of the team that hosts some of Adobe's most-prolific bloggers, it's nice to see this acknowledgment and recognition.

Thanks to John Dowdell for pointing this one out.

I am in hiding in my hotel room here in Washington, D.C., working on tomorrow's CFUnited opening keynote. If you're attending, don't be late. We have a couple of really important and exciting announcements to make, and some really cool demos too (assuming we can actually get them working by then). And shortly, with any luck, I'll head down to the bar to look for familiar faces.

We recently welcomed four new members to the Adobe Platform Evangelism team, all based out of our Romania office, and all concentrating on evangelism in Europe (and Eastern Europe specifically). The new team members, with links to their blogs, are:

• Cornel Creanga
• Mihai Corlan
• Mihai Pricope
• Remus Stratulat

Adobe Feeds is up and running, replacing MXNA, and running on newer faster servers running ColdFusion 8.0.1. But more importantly, some significant code changes were made to get rid of lots of the problem code - code which was written for tens of feeds as opposed to close to two thousand. There are still more optimizations to come, but for now ... remember the new URL, update your RSS feeds, and ... enjoy!

We just announced the Open Screen Project which will be working to enable a consistent runtime environment, starting with the Flash Player, and in the future AIR, to remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and consumer devices, including phones, mobile internet devices, and set top boxes, and more. The Open Screen Project is also supported by ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Verizon Wireless, and leading content providers, including BBC, MTV Networks, and NBC Universal.

Yesterday we quietly rolled out two important enhancements to the Adobe Developer Center.

The first change is community powered search (you'll see a new search box on the upper right side of the page), which basically means that searches now includes content from a wider array of sources, including community sources like relevant blogs. The second change is that logged in users can now post comments on articles, these comments are posted live immediately, but are also moderated (and will be scrubbed as needed).

While these new features are tested and tweaked they'll only be available in the Flex Developer Center. But we'll add these to additional ADC sections in the future.

Adobe TV has launched. We'll be posting new content regularly (I actually recorded 3 videos yesterday which will be going live in a month or so).

The Share team has posted details about updates just released in version 1.3.5 of the Share service, including details of some of the new features and offerings being made available.

Dr. Dobb's has announced the winners of the 18th annual Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards, and ColdFusion 8 won in the Web Development category! Yeah! Other Adobe winners are Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (Productivity Winner in Enterprise Tools category), Adobe Device Central CS3 (Productivity Winner in Mobile Development Tools category), and Adobe Captivate 3 (Productivity Winner in Utilities category).

The Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) has started a blog to post security related information pertaining to Adobe products and technologies.

Tom Jordahl has announced that he'll be presenting a Connect session tomorrow on BlazeDS to The Online ColdFusion Meetup Group. He'll cover exactly what you get in BlazeDS and how it relates to LiveCycle Data Services, and will detail some of the reasons why you might want to use these server technologies. He will also explain how ColdFusion developers can take advantage of BlazeDS in their applications.

We've been talking about the open sourcing of the Flex SDK for a while, and now you can check it all out online at the new Adobe Open Source Flex SDK wiki.

The Codie Awards were established by the Software Publishers Association (SPA), now the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), and are the only peer-recognition awards program of its kind in the industry, providing a unique opportunity for companies to earn the praise of their competitors. The Codie Awards program, now in its twenty-first year, remains the standard-bearer for celebrating outstanding achievement and vision in our industry. ColdFusion 8 is nominated as a finalist in the "Best Web Services Solution" category. Other Adobe finalists are LiveCycle Rights Management ES, Captivate 3, and Acrobat Connect Professional.