I often pondered what would happen to Degrafa when Thermo hits the shelves, now it looks like Adobe has made a partnership with the Degrafa team and will initially adapt Degrafa's core graphics engine into Flex Graphics.  I think this is an awesome idea and will only improve the Flex community at large. 

You can read up on the full details here.

I think I am a little behind here on the technology curve, but someone at Adobe showed me this the other day.  I heard that this project was in work, but I never actually took the time to go check it out myself.  So here it is, SearchMe.com a visual way to search the web.  Enjoy!  I am sure this technology will be bought by one of the big hitters eventually.  I love how they used Flex and repurposed the cover flow UI that Apple has so generously introduced in their products.

Reminds me of this statement:

The greatest revolutions come not by the discovery of something that was not known before.
They happen when someone radically changes something that was always there

In this example SearchMe took something like a search engine (already known) and totally redesigned its use, giving users a new experience to a common task such as searching for something on the web.  I like it, cant wait to see more experiences like this across the web. 

Anyone wondered why the iPhone doesnt have the flash player on it?  Something so simple, small and that has so many wide spread users?  It's simple... Apple doesnt want to have competing software on it's products.

Read this for yourself and please feel free to comment your thoughts/opinions.

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/06/14/cocoa-for-windows-flash-killer-sproutcore/
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/06/16/apple-adopting-sproutcore-for-web-applications/

PS: The first link talks about the Flash player being Proprietary... does this guy know about the openflash that was announced? I guess not...

I wanted to start playing with the new LiveCycle DS 2.6 functionality and I wanted to integrate 2.6 with Coldfusion 8. What I found on Adobe labs wasnt really clear enough to me on how to install 2.6 into CF 8.01, maybe it was just me but I like things explained fairly throughly in terms of instructions. I found some good resources after googling last night and decided I would just combine what I found on my blog for others as a reference. So grab a beer, sit back and relax, because its really easy to do if you know "exactly" what to do.

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If you couldnt make the Apple WWDC this week in San Francisco you can get the latest scoop from the keynote address here:

http://www.macworld.com/article/133798/2008/06/wwdckeynote.html?lsrc=top_1

Enjoy!