Archive for February, 2008

My Presentation from 360Flex

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

I just posted my slides and code samples from 360Flex. My session was entitled ‘Cairngorm for Adobe AIR Applications’. This session was a brief introduction to existing tools for Cairngorm that you to interact with core AIR API calls as services in Cairngorm.
You can view them on the Presentations page.

AIR, Conferences | 3 comments

Absolutely Great AIR Resource

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Lee Brimelow just released his slides from FITC on AIR. These slides are a great resource and provide excellent code examples. You can check out his post here.

AIR | No comments

Enterprise AIR Data Synchronization with LiveCycle

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Christophe Coenraets presented on the future of data services at 360Flex yesterday. As usual, his knowledge of data services proved valuable. He also demonstrated some of the new features that will be coming out in the next version of LCDS (reported to be close to public beta). One of these key features [...]

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It’s Here - AIR 1.0 and Flex 3.0

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Adobe has now released AIR 1.0 and Flex 3.0. AIR specifically has been years in the making, and it’s impact will be huge. Many of the companies that haven’t yet jumped onto the AIR bandwagon due to its Beta status are now going to begin development. From what I hear we are [...]

AIR, Flex | 2 comments

Great Post on Why Flex and ActionScript

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

I am sitting in Caribou Coffee a bit north of Atlanta getting ready for 360Flex, and I was reading through some blog posts, and I spotted this one on why Blist chose Flash/Flex/ActionScript. Great read for anyone developing in Flex/Flash/AS3 as well as those who don’t.
Why blist Chose Flex and Flash

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AIR and Cairngorm Revisited

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

As I stated earlier, I am presenting a session on ‘Cairngorm for Adobe AIR Applications’ at 360Flex Atlanta next week. I am in the process of finalizing my talk, but I wanted to give you guys (and girls) a chance to give some feedback which would could impact what areas I focus on for [...]

AIR, Conferences | 2 comments

ActionScript 4 and 5 Wishlist

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

A bit of discussion has developed from my previous article, Moock on ActionScript 4 about features that people would like to see in future versions of ActionScript. Obviously at the top of the list (mentioned by Dave) we have Threads. Does anyone have other things you want to see in the next versions [...]

Flash, Flex | 12 comments

Moock on ActionScript 4

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

Colin Moock is presenting details of ECMAScript 4 at FITC. He has posted some of his lecture notes regarding changes (that will probably be present in ActionScript 4 as well). These changes include:

Flash, Flex | 11 comments

Learning from the S3 Outage

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Today’s S3 outage taught me quite a bit. I don’t currently have any sites or services running on AWS, but I will have multiple ones up shortly. I am always big on redundancy, but I admit that when I comes to things like EC2 and S3 - I assumed that Amazon had already [...]

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Yahoo Rejects Microsoft’s Initial Offer

Monday, February 11th, 2008

As many have speculated, Yahoo Rejected Microsoft’s initial offer of $44.6 Billion. Hopefully this will mean that there are additional companies that could become involved with Yahoo that would be more beneficial for the Flash, Flex, and ColdFusion developers out there.
Yahoo formally Rejects Microsoft’s Offer

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