Archive for October, 2007

Why Education Matters to Flex

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Adobe recently made a major announcement regarding their strategy for Flex promotion. To quick summary is that Adobe will be offering Flex Builder for free to faculty and students at education institutions worldwide [news article]. Many of you know that I work at Georgia Tech (and previously at Middle Tennessee State University), and [...]

Education, Flex | 9 comments

Update Your Blog Software

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Just a quick reminder to all bloggers - keep your blogging software updated (I realize that this is common sense, but sometimes we get too busy and just don’t do it). My blog was minimally hacked last night, so I had to spend this morning putting the pieces back together. For Wordpress bloggers, [...]

Wordpress | No comments

Getting Started with Cairngorm – Part 3

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Now that you have isolated two specific elements of the Cairngorm Micro-Architecture, you will now create a more complete Cairngorm application. Up to now the tutorials have covered only one design pattern, the ModelLocator, but now you will be introduced to the most crucial element of Cairngorm, the Service to Worker design pattern. [...]

Cairngorm, Flex | 20 comments

My New Developer Center Article

Monday, October 29th, 2007

I recently completed an article for the Adobe AIR Developer Center on Managing AIR Updates with ColdFusion 8. Check it out and let me know what comments you have.
I will be extending the UpdateManager in the weeks ahead. I will be covering all of the details here. It will be the next [...]

AIR, Coldfusion | 1 comment

Getting Started with Cairngorm – Part 2

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Recap: In Part 1, I discussed the basic implementation and use of the ModelLocator pattern. This pattern is one of many design patterns contained within the Cairngorm micro-architechture. This design pattern will be used in Part 2 as well, so it is assumed that you are familiar with the concepts in Part [...]

Cairngorm, Flex | 11 comments

Cairngorm 2.2.1 Released

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Alistair McLeod announced the release of Cairngorm 2.2.1. Read about it here and download it here.

Cairngorm, Flex | 1 comment

AIR Tips - Update Coming

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

With the release of AIR Beta 2 - I will be updating the current tutorials. I should get everything updated within a a week or so.

AIR | No comments

Getting Started with Cairngorm – Part 1

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

I spoke about Cairngorm 2.2 in the Flex Bootcamp at Max this week. Many people were interested in Cairngorm, but I only had about 10 minutes to explain the basics of Cairngorm. I guess the easiest way to assist these people is to do a quick blog series on the benefits of Cairngorm. [...]

Cairngorm, Flex | 36 comments

Max Classes – Day 3

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

I made some last minute switching on Day 3 classes. I chose not to attend the “Boot Camp for Mobiles and Devices” or “Leveraging Coldfusion in AIR Applications”. I still don’t have any projects with mobiles in the near future, and I feel that I have used Coldfusion every way that it could [...]

Adobe Max 2007 | No comments

Max Classes – Day 2

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Sorry that I am a bit late getting these out. I learned one more thing about Max – it wears you out. I have totally crashed upon arriving back in the hotel the last two nights.

Coldfusion Server Monitoring and Troubleshooting – I quickly realized that I am not using enough of these cool [...]

Adobe Max 2007 | No comments

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