The Jacksonville ColdFusion Users Group (JaxFusion) is starting to get re-organized after some time off. One of the big changes is that the group will expand to not only cover ColdFusion related topics, but also Flex and AIR as well.

Another change will be the meeting location, we are looking for a new location near the Southside somewhere as Downtown was just out of reach for most people in the area after a long day of work. One of the requirements for a meeting location is a projector and preferably a decent internet connection. Since there are quite a few folks in the community now willing to present over Adobe Connect this will ensure some great presentations in the future.

So if you have a suggestion for a location or if you are a Jacksonville business willing to donate some meeting space once a month, please contact David Fekke at david@fekke.com.

Brian Legros has been sending the following info out about the Flex 3 Pre-Release Tour:

" The Adobe Developers of Greater Orlando (Adogo) user group has been selected as a stop on Adobe's Flex 3 Pre-release Tour. We're fortunate enough to have Ben Forta, Adobe's Senior Technical Evangelist, speaking to the group for this leg of the tour. The meeting will be held on January 21st, 2008 @ 7:00 PM in the Oleander Room at Westgate Lakes Resort and Spa (located at 10000 Turkey Lake Road, Orlando , FL 32819, parking at The Smokehouse). We'll be giving away a copy of Flex 3 and CS3 Web Premium, a pass to CFUnited 2008, as well as lots of branded schwag from Adobe and CFUnited. Food and drink will be provided to all in attendance while it lasts. Registration for this event is available at http://adogo200801.eventbrite.com/. Additionally, more information can also be found on our website at http://adogo.us.

Since this will be the only stop on the tour in the state, we would like to extend an invitation to all of the Adobe User Groups in Florida to join us for our meeting. We are attempting to promote this event as much as possible, but our channels outside of the Orlando area are somewhat limited. If anyone is open to helping, we are definitely grateful for any cross promotions you and your groups can provide for this event. "

Im seriously thinking about driving down for that! Im in Jacksonville which is about a 3 hour drive from Orlando so its not too bad. Anyone from Jacksonville interested in going? Maybe we could carpool and split the travel costs. I dont mind driving. I have a new 07 Nissan Titan Crew Cab 4-door truck that seats 5 adults easily so I have room for 4 people if they would like to go. I even have DVD players in the headrests for backseat entertainment during the trip.

If your interested in going, post a comment or shoot me an email and we can arrange the trip.

russ at angry-fly dot com

Luis Majano, the creator of ColdBox pinged me today with a link to a post on his blog about what I think is going to be one of the coolest features in ColdBox yet. The ability to utilize an existing ColdBox application and model code and slap a Flex or Air front-end on it! What makes this even cooler is how simple Luis has made it! You have to check out the post and get the details.

Looks like Mozilla is breathing new life into the Webrunner application and renaming it Prism. Perhaps based on the success of Adobe Air? Mozilla describes Prism as:

"Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop.

Unlike Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight, we're not building a proprietary platform to replace the web. We think the web is a powerful and open platform for this sort of innovation, so our goal is to identify and facilitate the development of enhancements that bring the advantages of desktop apps to the web platform."

You can read more about it on the Mozilla labs site.