This is slightly off topic, but I just couldn’t help but express my disappointment.

Let me start with a quote from an email I just received from iPhone@vodafone.in

Thank you for registering for your Apple iPhone 3GTM with us. We are delighted to announce that the iPhone 3G will be available in India from August 22, 2008 It will be available in 8GB & 16GB models, priced at Rs 31,000 and Rs 36,100 respectively.

According to today’s rupee-dollar exchange rate that’s $715 for 8GB and $832 for the 16GB model. The email is not very clear if there is a contract involved or not .. contracts are not very common in India so I’m guessing not.

Thomas Jung over at SAP Developer Network has posted the details of a workshop he will be leading along with Rich Heilman, Dan McWeeney and Ed Herrmann at the SDN Community Day in Las Vagas.

The workshop is aimed at educating developers about the new UI features in the new version of Web Dynpro (SAP’s UI development technology) available in Netweaver 7.0 Enhancement Pack 1, Thomas also posted the below video that shows a preview of these new features that they will be discussing in the workshop.

Sun Microsystems today announced a preview release of the JavaFX SDK.

I’ve been observing this new entrant into the RIA space from the outside but today I thought it was time to dig in a little bit. So I got my hands on the latest Netbeans wit JavaFx support and cooked up this little Hello World application.  

Initial thoughts

Here are my initial thoughts of the technology .. I will try and share more detailed opinion, once I know the technology a little better ..

There are quite a few security changes in the upcoming Flash Player 10, some of which may require changes to content or policy files to ensure that content continues to work.

Below are a couple of articles that discuss some of the security changes in Flash Player 10: Understanding the security changes in Flash Player 10 beta http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10_security_changes.html

Working with policy file changes in Flash Player 9 and Flash Player 10 beta http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer9-10_security.html

Flash Player 10 FileReference Changes http://theflashblog.com/?p=423

If you developer or manage Flash content, then it is important that you read over these articles in order to understand the changes, and what, if any implications they have for your content.

Today I presented more information about the Marshall Plan at the 360Flex conference in San Jose. The PowerPoint presentation can be downloaded here. Download Presentation There is a series of demos in the presentation. The code and source are linked...

Ted just blogged about the fact that you can grab all of the sessions from 360|Flex and watch them inside of AMP. I haven’t had a chance to blog much about 360|Flex but it’s been a really, really great conference again. I think the speakers this year are better than other years so this is [...]