I have recently submitted a feature request to the fine folks in the Adobe AIR team. Below is the entry, what do you think? I know some of you may have concerns about security, I would like to use this entry as a soundboard of pros and cons for something like this. Thanks

First a bit of history. At first I thought it would be cool to be able to package a dll file along with my AIR app and be able to have AIR register that file locally (given that user has been warned and prompted properly) and then be able to call on that dll from my application. However dll would only be supported on apps running on Windows platform, so instead why not use jar files instead so that at least multiple platforms could take advantage of a given functionality.

Brief title for your desired feature:
JAR Integration and Packaging

How would you like the feature to work?
Ability to package jar files and be able to interact with them on the client (given that user has been warned and prompted properly) from my AIR application. This would give AIR the ability to interact with libraries that already do some of the much requested features like USB/Serial port communications. Given that any platform running jvm can take advantage of this feature, it makes more sense to use jar then dlls.

Why is this feature important to you?
Ability in application to interact with bar code scanners, cash drawers, print certain documents to specific printers like parking permits and invoices in stock paper.

For those of you that attended my session, my presentations are coming, I swear! I just found out that my recorded preso did not have any audio so I'm planning on recording another one soon and I'll be sure to add some of the stuff that we didn't have time to cover during the preso.

If you have any questions or comments or anything else you'd like to see, please feel free to post on this entry and I'll get back to you soon.

Cheers...

My company AboutWeb is again sponsoring the community pit at this year's CFUnited. Every year we look at coming up with something new to make your experience more enjoyable. This year, to go with the Green/Sci-Fi theme of the conference, we are going to be having a movie theater showing the greatest Sci-Fi movies, ever!

How do we know that they are the greatest ever, you ask? Because you get to tell us what you want to watch!!! That's right, we are running a poll to get your opinion on what movies will make the cut. To vote for your favorite movie, please go the following link:

http://www.aboutweb.com/dsp.poll.cfm

As promised, here are the slides and code examples for my CF.Objective() 2008 presentation. Feel free to post any comments or questions and I'll get to them asap.

As I mentioned after the presentation, I'm also going to be putting together an intermediate version of this talk covering more complex patterns. Also, I have been told that CF.Objective() 2009 will be tentatively scheduled for May 6-9. So now you have plenty of time to begin schmoozing your bosses to let you go. I have to say that this is THE conference for learning the high level skills needed to build enterprise level applications in ColdFusion.

I'm done with my presentations on "Leveraging Basic Design Patterns in ColdFusion" talk at CF.Objective(). For those of you who attended, thank you very much for coming! I hope you have learned something useful that will help make your day to day coding better, and I'd love to hear from you on any feedback. I will be posting my slides and code examples as soon as I return home to Maryland. Also, I am thinking about making an extension to this intro talk with an intermediate session covering more patterns, let me know if you are interested in that as well.

I'd like to also thank our great hosts Jared Rypka-Hauer, Steven Hauer and Jim Louis for a great conference experience, both as a speaker and as an attendee. I'm looking forward to CF.Objective() 2009!

AboutWeb, LLC has an exciting opportunity for an Object-Oriented ColdFusion Developer to join our Solutions Team in Rockville. Selected new team member should have a solid background in ColdFusion MX 7/8 and experience with the following:

• Demonstrated experience developing Object-Oriented applications.
• Experience with MVC or 3-tier Architecture.
• CSS, Custom Tags.
• Production level development in Java, .NET, Flex or Ajax will be considered pluses.
• CF Certification, or willingness to obtain certification.
• Current Clearance or ability to pass background investigation.

If you are interested, we would like to talk to you soon! Please email your resume to jarchy[at]aboutweb[dot]com.

You are probably wondering what the heck is wrong with this site, well I'm taking part of the CSS Naked Day, it's a day to promote Web Standards awareness. Click on the link to find out more about it.

Just a quick meeting reminder that the Capital Area Flex User's Group is meeting this Wednesday night at 6:30pm at AboutWeb.

We have another amazing meeting lined up for you tomorrow night. To start off the night we'll have Ashish Jaiman from Microsoft present on Silverlight. This should be an opportunity to see where Microsoft stands with it's competing product and perhaps inspire some friendly rivalry.

After a break for food and drinks, Kelly Brown will be presenting on BlazeDS, an open source Flex/Air server initiative from Adobe.

Please arrive by 6:30pm at our Rockville office as presentations will begin promptly at 7:00pm. For directions and more information visit www.dc-flex.org.

As always, we will be broadcasting the event live on Adobe Connect. To follow the event online (sorry no e-food though!) go to http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/capfug0408/.

Just a quick meeting reminder that the Capital Area Flex User's Group is meeting tonight at 6:00pm to celebrate the much anticipated launch of Adobe Flex 3.0 and AIR 1.0!

Adobe's RIA technologies enable you to rapidly build and deploy the most engaging applications across browsers and on the desktop. The DC Flex Usergroup is hosting a special live event to share exciting new information on Adobe's platform tools and technologies for building RIAs. You'll see an exclusive user group video presentation by Adobe Chief Software Architect, Kevin Lynch, hear some important product news, plus get your hands on some exclusive schwag and other giveaways. Be part of the fun and excitement and join the rest of the Adobe developer community by participating in this very special event

As always, we will be broadcasting the event live on Adobe Connect. To follow the event online (sorry no e-food though!) go to http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/capfug0308/.

Just want to pass on the word that tomorrow AboutWeb LLC and Adobe Systems will be hosting the Flex Camp Washington, DC 2008. This is one-day gathering with Adobe Flex experts covering everything you need to know about the power of Flex, the upcoming release of Flex 3, and a bit about the much anticipated Adobe Air.

Since we have already surpassed the registration capacity, we are going to be broadcasting the entire event live on Adobe Connect from 9:30am to 12:00pm and then after lunch break from 1:00pm to 5:00pm (All times are Eastern Standard Time).

To view the event go to http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/dcflexcamp08/, choose the "Enter as a Guest" option and click "Enter Room" after entering your name. We look forward to seeing you online!