Matt Chotin from Adobe gave the opening keynote presentation at this year's 360Flex conference in Indianapolis. The keynote is in an interesting ballroom room in the historic Union Station here in Indianapolis. He discussed the future of Flex. He showed a dashboard that they intend to release to track the Tour de Flex showing real-time access to Tour de Flex usage. Last night they went over the five millionth view of Tour de Flex samples.

As noted in this article on TechCrunch, Amazon has now opened up publishing to Kindle for all blogs. I have already added this blog as well as my wife's education focused blog. Adding a blog was easy once you sign up, just requiring a valid RSS/Atom feed, a description and some keywords (a screenshot and a header can also be added). You can see a preview of what your blog will look like on a Kindle. Despite their notification that the content wouldn't be available for 48-72 hours, mine showed as approved within 15 minutes. If you have a blog with regular content, it might be worth considering this alternative distribution method as the Kindle is growing rapidly in popularity. I don't have one yet however, so if anyone subscribes to my blog via Kindle, please feel free to share feedback. If you would like to sign up, go here.

One new project and one update this week. There is sure to be exciting news at cf.Objective() this week. However, since I am not there, I think everyone should hold it and save it for some event I am at. All of you attending can have as much fun as you like but don't discuss anything important or make any important announcements. Understood?

One new project and four updates this week. Everyone in the ColdFusion community is gearing up for cf.Objective(). Sadly, I will be missing my first cf.Objective() this year as I couldn't manage it with my schedule and a previous commitment to go to 360|Flex which is the following week. Nonetheless, if sounds like it will be a great conference and I look forward to reading the session summaries.

The next in my continuing series of jQuery tutorials works again with the that is a part of jQuery UI. In my previous post, I discussed working with this effect associated with table rows. In this tutorial, I will show how to use it with two related lists that allow the user not only to sort items in each list but drag them to the other list as well. We'll cover a couple of nifty items such as ensuring that the dragged item matches the styles on the new list as well as allowing you to switch lists via double-clicking. Lastly, we'll even deal with the issue that arises when you have no items in one of the lists and you can no longer add items back.