This article highlights the many different Flex development frameworks available as the Flex community has grown by leaps in bounds in recent years.

I ran into a confusing issue with ColdFusion 8 that could affect users that install the enterprise version with the evaluation option and are using multiple instances. Here is what led up to this issue occuring for me Installed ColdFusion 8 as a multi server install with the evaluation option Created an additional instance of ColdFusion Entered in a valid serial number into the new instance that I had just created.

After leaving Adobe in November of 2007 I joined Universal Mind as the director of Technology. UM had been working on a product that was called LaunchPad. At that time LaunchPad was a proof of concept built for the San Francisco PD with basic heatmap capabilities and no server side architecture. Our goal was to pull together a team with GIS experience, data visualization and build a kick ass product based on LaunchPad.

I will be presenting again at Max this year in San Franscico on the topic of "Architecting ColdFusion For Scalability And High Availability". I want to take a new approach this year and solicit input on specific areas to cover during the presentation.

If you had a chance to read my getting started with Ec2 article I highlighted some of the challenges with deploying applications on the cloud. One of these challenges can now be easily overcome based on a new feature recently provided on Ec2 Elastic IP Addresses: Elastic IP Addresses are static IP addresses designed for dynamic cloud computing, and now make it easy to host web sites, web services and other online applications in Amazon EC2.

I was recently introduced to Amazon's new Ec2 services. The idea of cloud computing really intrigued me after I heard about it so I decided to take the dive. There is a bit of a learning curve with getting started but once you get started you realize the unlimited potential that cloud computing offers. Ec2 offers the ability to deploy pre-configured (linux based) images (called AMI's). The AMI's can be created from scratch or based on prebuit versions that Amazon or other users have exposed.