Kevin Lynch talks about open source, innovation, the future of Flash and more
Is Adobe going to open source the Flash Player? What can you expect at MAX? What about the competition from Microsoft? What’s coming to Adobe Labs?
Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s chief technology officer, answers these questions and more in an interview with eWeek.com
It’s a bit lengthy but an excellent read if you want to find out more about where Adobe is headed.
ColdFusion is alive and kicking in Belgium
I can’t keep count of how many times people have asked me if ColdFusion was dead and the answer is pretty simple: “Hell no!”. Actually, ColdFusion 9 is currently in active development and from what I’ve seen and heard, it’s going to kick some serious behind!
In Belgium, ColdFusion is powering some seriously big and high-traffic sites (like Kinepolis, Immoweb and ZDNet to name a few) and so it’s great to see that the Belgian ColdFusion user group is now being rebooted. Their first meeting is on September 29th at 2pm in Brussels. Fellow platform evangelist Adam Lehman is going to talk about CF and LiveCycle DataServices, monitoring and system alerts and will also let you in on the ColdFusion 9 (codenamed Centaur) roadmap.
More info on their Facebook event page or via http://www.cfforum.eu/ (currently only in French though).
And the winners are…
As you probably know by now, Flash On The Beach is in just 1 week time and is completely sold out. Luckily we were able to get a hold of the last tickets and asked you to be creative with the “beach” theme and the AIR, Flash, Flex, ColdFusion, Adobe logos. Here are the winners who all get a full conference pass to Flash On The Beach in Brighton. I’m sure you’ll agree that these clearly are winners. Congrats to all of them and see you in Brighton!
FOTB is sold out! Get the last tickets here… for free!
Flash On The Beach is now just 2 weeks away and is also officially sold out. If you were too late in getting your tickets, this is your last chance to get one… for free!
The only thing you have to do is get a little creative! A couple of weeks ago, Adobe’s European platform evangelist team launched this contest. Although the deadline was officially last week, we want to give you guys a little bit more time to get creative and win your ticket for FOTB especially since it’s now sold out and these are the last available tickets out there. So we’re extending the deadline until Wednesday September 17, 1pm CET. That same afternoon we’ll announce the winners.
I got to tell you that the competition is already pretty strong. So get creative and see you at Flash On The Beach!
CS4: Europe gets to see it first on September 23rd
The cat is out of the bag! Get a big black marker and write “CS4″ on September 23rd! Or even better: Go and register yourself to be part of the special web broadcast where we will announce CS4 and show you all of it’s cool new features. And if you’re in Europe, you have a chance to see it before the rest of the world!
Additionally, you also want to check with your local Adobe User Group. Most of them are organizing special events on the 23rd! I know the Belgian and the Dutch user groups have something special planned and I’m sure your local AUG will also join in the festivities.
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