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CFDJ News!
OK - there isn't anything on the CFDJ site about this yet (there will be soon) but many of you have emailed me to inquire about the news I mentioned a few days ago. Macromedia has tremendous vision... I appreciate and enjoy sharing that vision with them. Web 2.0 and the idea of not just smart applications but smart clients as well, is at the heart of that vision. This is how the shift towards user experiences that are more user-centric will happen. In fact, it's beginning to happen already. The Flex 2.0 architecture and IDE is poised to be the most efficient and most developer-enabling platform to make this vision a reality for everyone. Sys-Con has MX Developer's' Journal - a good magazine but one that is focused on a suite of products that technically doesn't exist anymore and even if it did, has no clear target audiance. ColdFusion Developer's Journal is different in that it doesn't focus on a product so much as it focuses on a specific community of users. With the announcement of Flex 2.0 I decided that it's time for a change. Starting sometime very soon, ColdFusion Developer's Journal is going to not only focus on CF but also on Flex, Ajax, and any other "developer's technology" that is of use and interest to the Macromedia developer community. I'm fairly sure that we (Sys-Con) will be focussing MXDJ towards the designer community as well. Is CFDJ going to remain "CFDJ"? I'm not sure. Personally, I'd like to rename both CFDJ and MXDJ - why not have "Adobe Developer's Journal" and "Adobe Designer's Journal"? Of course, there's no official decision to rename any magazine... but there are discussions happening regularly. Whether there is any renaming of anything or not, there will definitely be a concerted effort on my part to increase the attention that CFDJ pays to smart client technologies - Flex in particular. I'd like to know what all of you out there think?

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