Archive for January, 2008

360Flex - Cairngorm for Adobe AIR Applications

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

My session at 360Flex Atlanta is titled, Cairngorm for Adobe AIR Applications. Here is the gist of the session:
Cairngorm is not built for AIR applications, but rather for Flex applications. To take advantage of the AIR API specifics, you will have to modify the way that you work with Cairngorm. I will [...]

Conferences | 7 comments

Getting Pumped about 360Flex Atlanta

Monday, January 28th, 2008

360Flex is just around the corner. I am getting really excited about this one. I will be talking about Cairngorm for Adobe AIR Applications. This week I am going to post a full description of my session - including what topics I will be covering (and what I won’t).
John Wilker also states [...]

Conferences | No comments

Anyone Use Helio?

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

My contract with Verizon ends next month. I am evaluating which carrier to switch to (or to stay with Verizon). I was curious if anyone has used Helio. I was thinking about getting the Helio Ocean. I like it over the iPhone because it has 3G, GPS, and auto-uploading to Flickr. [...]

Uncategorized | 7 comments

Important Notes on Using the AIR Badge Installation

Friday, January 25th, 2008

I just had a few emails from someone who was implementing the install badge on a site. The problem he was having was twofold.

AIR | 4 comments

AIR Tip 7 - Using Command Line Arguments

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

AIR Tip 7: This tutorial will walk you through the process of using command line arguments with your AIR application. This tutorial is current for AIR Beta 3.

AIR | 9 comments

Announcing InsideRIA.com

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Adobe and O’Reilly have teamed up to create one of the premiere sites for RIA news and information, InsideRIA.com. I am honored to be one of the experts at InsideRIA. I am a part of an amazing team with Raymond Camden, Rich Tretola, Andre Charland, Tony MacDonell, Gabor Vida, Jonathan Snook, and Andrew [...]

AIR, Flex | 2 comments

Need Help - New Dedicated Server Host

Monday, January 21st, 2008

The current company (which shall remain nameless for the moment) that I lease servers from has had a rough month. There have been two times that the service has been down for over 2 hours (each time). This has been a bit rough for me to explain to some of my customers. [...]

Linux | 10 comments

The Way the Rest of the World Views Linux

Monday, January 21st, 2008

I ran across this comment on a ZDNet article. This one made me laugh. I do realize though that this must be the way that the rest of the world views Linux. While I still use a Windows machine as my daily development machine, all of my servers that I own or [...]

Linux | 4 comments

Recovering From Brief Outage

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

It appears that many servers are still so tired from all of the attempted live blogging of MacWorld. This morning, my server apparently had had enough. It decided it was going to take about a 3 hour break. It’s back now and all seems to be well. I also have negotiated [...]

Uncategorized | 2 comments

Sun Acquires MySQL

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Yes, it’s true. Sun has acquired MySQL (read it here). I hope that this means that MySQL will have an even better future, but I must admit that it makes me a bit nervous. Almost all of my database development is done with MySQL, so I hope that it remains as reliable [...]

MySQL | 4 comments

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