Yet another good write up and intro to the shiny new world of Apollo appears in Computer Weekly.
Click the picture for the full article, but the high light is'Developers would have chosen Java or .Net ...much easier to build using [Apollo]' !

If I hadn't been there to organise paying the deposit for our new house, I would have said something. Highlights of the last half hour or so include 'the system being down' and reverting to 'the old system' that 'we used yesterday too'.

At the top of our tiers of ColdFusion objects, we have the Service.
Services deal with making sure the underlying Managers who perform the work are abstracted from the way the Service is called. Typically this means a service will enforce authentication requirements, though authorisation may be dealt with here too rather than with in a manager particularly if it is a simple 'is user in role' task. If you do this though you must be careful to make the same checks when the Manager is invoked in other ways - like from another Manager.

Just spotted that Adobe have released an update to the Flex 2.0.1 SDK, over at http://www.adobe.com/go/kb401224.

And knock me down with a very small feather if they've not fixed the reappearing data grid columns bug I checked a work around for into our SVN for this very morning :-)

For an alpha release, Adobe's Flex-HTML-PDF desktop runtime is fairly funky.