Adobe/ColdFusion News Brief: December 27, 2006

 
Dec 27, 2006

by Ryan Hartwich

Photoshop and Spry Betas

Adobe has publicly released a number of betas in the last few weeks. For the design-centric users, Photoshop CS3 offers a Universal Binary for the Mac, smarter filters, enhanced vanishing point capabilities and a new way to interact with the palettes. Spry 1.4 is an incremental upgrade to an AJAX-based framework and JSEclipse is a Javascript coding tool for the Eclipse IDE (particularly helpful to those who code ColdFusion using CFEclipse or the Flex Builder 2).

Adobe Labs

CFeMmys

Todd Sharp, a ColdFusion blogger recently ran the CFeMmys, a way for users to vote for and award recognition to popular ColdFusion trends and websites for the year. Approximately 250 votes were cast in the last two weeks and the winners have been announced. House of Fusion won for best ColdFusion list (CF-Talk) and Fusion Authority won for Best ColdFusion publication with the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. Take three minutes to read through his awards to learn about a number of great ColdFusion resources that the community finds important.

CFeMmys--And the Winners Are (CFSilence.com, December 22, 2006)

Adobe Announces Q4 Fiscal Results

In fiscal year 2006, Adobe achieved record revenue of $2.575 billion, compared to $1.966 billion in fiscal 2005. On a year-over-year basis, annual revenue grew 31 percent. ColdFusion falls under the Enterprise and Developer Solutions market segment, which earned $189.2 million for the full year (7% of total revenue).

Adobe Reports Record Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2006 Revenue
Adobe Financial Information

Dual Monitors for Development

A recent article by Michael Dinowitz points out his belief (backed up by numerous others on Sean Corfield's blog) that dual and sometimes triple monitor setups increase productivity dramatically. I have experienced this myself and know numerous other developers with dual monitor setups. Most video cards ($50+) with Nvidia and ATI chipsets support dual monitors with no difficulty configuring them for Windows XP. The only hassle is making sure that the card you buy supports the right combination of SVGA and DVI to match your monitors (CRTs use SVGA, LCDs use DVI; some adapters are available). For those of you who only have a single monitor for your full time ColdFusion development jobs, either upgrade, or look for a new job... your boss doesn't value your productivity enough to spend $300 on you.

3-2-1 Monitor! (Fusion Authority, December 19, 2006)
Monitors and Working Practices (Corfield.org, December 19, 2006)

Flex Myths Debunked

Ted Patrick, the Adobe Flex Evangelist, has posted a very concise but informative list of myths that people have about Flex 2. Thankfully, he also debunks them. The myths are worth rereading and presenting to your manager if he/she is fighting you on expanding into Flex. Looking for an additional resource to assist you with your learning? Adobe has also made a Flex Cookbook available to help developers find the solutions to their Flex problems.

Ten Myths About Adobe Flex 2 (onFlex.org, December 9, 2006)
Flex Cookbook


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