Ben Forta's Blog

Belgium Interview Posted

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:03:00 -0400

One of our stops in Europe last week was in Liège where Serge Jespers and I presented at a local RIA event. While there, community members Cyril Hanquez and Steven Peeters interviewed me briefly for their local usergroup. They have now posted that vi...

US Census Bureau Failure Part II

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:35:00 -0400

I mentioned the upcoming U.S. Census recently, and noted my disappointment at having to mail back forms instead of filing them electronically which would save money, encourage greater participation, ... whoops, that was the other post. I was going...

PCQuest On ColdFusion 9 And ColdFusion Builder

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:43:00 -0400

India based PCQuest has published an article on getting started with ColdFusion 9 Using Adobe ColdFusion Builder. Thanks David Dharmaraj for sending this one my way.

Google Nexus One Now Supports AT&T 3G

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:26:00 -0400

Title says it all. I still wish they'd not have created multiple versions. But, I'll take it anyway.

Check Out The New Design And Web Blog

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:13:00 -0400

Fellow Adobians Paul Gubbay (Sr. Director Engineering) and Lea Hickman (Sr. Director Product Management) from the Creative Suite, tools, and services teams, have launched the Design And Web blog to discuss product plans, technology prototypes, and ev...

Home Automation Control Of RGB LED Lighting Strips

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:13:00 -0400

I'm replacing the blue fluorescent lighting above my fish tank with LED strips. The original intent was to use blue LEDs, but as I'm already going through the effort, I opted to use RGB LED strips (each LED is made up of three LEDs, one red, one gree...

DZone ColdFusion Builder Refcard Available

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:20:00 -0400

DZone Refcards are free printable cheat sheets for popular applications, tools, languages, and more. DZone has now posted its ColdFusion Builder Refcard, created by our own Terry Ryan.

Flex In The White House Situation Room

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:53:00 -0400

Intelligent Software Solutions has developed and deployed an application to enable critical infrastructure monitoring to the White House Situation Room. The application uses touch technologies to provide insight into the current status of various ele...

Scobleizer On Adobe, Apple, And Flash

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:41:00 -0400

Robert Scoble dropped by our San Francisco office, and chatted with execs from the Flash team. His thoughts (and videos) on Flash and Apple devices are a worthwhile read.

Flash Player A Hog? Not Necessarily

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:09:00 -0400

Lately, some (okay, someone) have accused Flash of being a resource hog. And lots of others have jumped on the bandwagon, without actually having performed any real tests or gathered any real data. But Jan Ozer has been doing just that, and has poste...

Google Public Data Explorer Features Flash Charting

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:44:00 -0400

Title says it all. Some really nice Flash charting examples. Check it out.

Amex: Make Your Passwords Secure, Just Not Too Secure

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:33:00 -0400

I reset online passwords regularly (as should everyone). And I approve of password restrictions (minimum lengths, no reuse, at least one digit and one uppercase, etc.). But, as you can see in this validation screen, American Express apparently does n...

FlashCamp Coming To Boston

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:13:00 -0400

FlashCamp is coming to Boston next week on Friday, March 19th, 2010 at 5:00pm. This is a free event with limited space, and the speaker lineup is pretty phenomenal, and includes Deepa Subramaniam, Heidi Williams, Doug Winnie, Chet Haase, ColdFusion's...

HP Slate Allows Access To ALL Of The Internet

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:02:00 -0400

Who says you can't have it all? Check out this YouTube video showing the web, Flash and AIR on an upcoming HP slate device:

Also, see this Wired story.

Serge Jespers On Flash And HTML5 Geolocation

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:07:00 -0400

HTML5 includes geolocation APIs that work even on devices without GPS support. And Serge Jespers has posted a demo showing how HTML5 and Flash can work together to use HTML5 geolocation to power a Flash app.