The JaxFusion meeting for tomorrow has been canceled. We are going to try to do a make meeting in April.

I got the following message from the manager of the Tampa Adobe User Group;

I am looking for a ColdFusion developer with C# .NET experience here in the Jacksonville, Fl area. If you are available, and have experience with both ColdFusion and C#, please contact me at davidfekke at gmail dot com.

The JaxFusion user group is meeting tonight at Southwest Signal at 6:30 pm. The meeting tonight will cover Drag and Drop in Flex as well as Adobe AIR desktop Drag and Drop capabilities.

We will also be discussing some of the changes in Adobe, and the ColdFusion community.

The next JaxFusion meeting will be Tuesday January 20th at SouthWest Signal at 6:30 PM.

Pablo Varando from EasyCFM.com has announced that he is launching a free ColdFusion 8 hosting service at the beginning of next year. The hosting service will be based on ColdFusion 8 and have either a MS Access or MS SQL Server 2005 database.

Pablo made this announcement on his blog. He says he will have more details about this service soon, so check back soon.

Pablo has done this before successfully, so I look forward to this new service.

I was reading Ben Forta's blog and saw that Jason Delmore, the ColdFusion product manager has been let go from Adobe. He was one of the many people who have been laid off from Adobe.

I had the opportunity to meet Jason not too long after he was hired at Adobe. At the time he was hired, I was happy that Adobe hired him because he had been working at a competitor of mine. I found Jason to be good steward for ColdFusion.

While Jason was at Adobe, ColdFusion 8 was released, and ColdFusion 9 has been announced. I have been extremely happy with the new features that have included in 8, and the features announced for 9.

I am sorry that Jason is gone from the ColdFusion team. The product really improved under his tenure. That is not a bad CV. Hey Microsoft, you might want to hire this guy.

A member of the JaxFusion user group is available for ColdFusion and or Flash development. I used to work with this guy, and he is hands down one of the best Flash developers I have ever worked with in my web development career.

He is based out of the Jacksonville area, and is also available for remote work. Please contact me if you are interested at davidfekke at gmail dot com.

The Jaxfusion user group is having a presentation tonight on the Ext Javascript framework. The meeting starts at 6:30 PM at SouhWest Signal.

I have been recently approached by two different companies in the Jacksonville, Fl area that are trying to hire ColdFusion developers. If you live in Jacksonville or are willing to relocate, these are good opportunities.

There are three open positions at Taleo. If you follow this link and do a search for "Software Engineer" it will show the open positions. They are also trying to hire Java, C# and Flex developers.

Another company that is trying find ColdFusion developers is called Andromeda Systems.

jQuery will be the focus of the next JaxFusion meeting this coming Tuesday. jQuery has been popular with the ColdFusion community for awhile, but Microsoft will be including it with their ASP.NET products going forward.

There are millions of javascript frameworks for developers to use, but there is a lot of momentum behind jQuery. I am using it with my current job, and have found it to be very powerful.

The next JaxFusion meeting will be on October 21st at 6:30 PM at Southwest Signal.