http://www.davidtucker.net web development goodness Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:17:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am really excited about an event coming to the DC area: Capital Flash Camp. Being a former DC area resident, I know that there are a lot of great Flash Platform developers (as well as ColdFusion developers) in the area who would really benefit from a great event ... http://www.davidtucker.net/2010/03/31/capital-flash-camp/ I recently completed a two-part series entitled 'Object Relational Mapping for the AIR Developer' in the Adobe Edge newsletter. This two part series will help any AIR developer get going with FlexORM (which is an open source ORM solution for Adobe AIR). This series also covers many of ... http://www.davidtucker.net/2009/12/08/articles-on-orm-for-the-air-developer/ I am in the process of moving all of my servers to ColdFusion 9 Standard. That being said, I have an old ColdFusion 8 Standard license that I am currently selling on Ebay. I paid full price for this license ($1299) last year, and I can truly say ... http://www.davidtucker.net/2009/12/01/get-a-coldfusion-8-license-for-cheap/ First, I would be remiss if I didn't say that Brian Rinaldi put on a great event in Boston! Unfortunately I missed the keynote and morning sessions because I had to do some client work, but everything seemed well organized. I was also greatly impressed with the attendees ... http://www.davidtucker.net/2009/11/13/orm-for-air-presentation-notes-from-ria-unleashed/ At most of the conferences I attend - people come up to me to discuss Cairngorm. Many of them have learned from my tutorials. I am glad that the videos have been helpful to so many (and the daily views still astound me). However, these videos were ... http://www.davidtucker.net/2009/10/13/the-current-state-of-flex-frameworks/ This year one of the projects I worked on at Universal Mind, the Colorado Growth Model is a Max Awards finalist. This application is really ground-breaking in the way that it connects parents directly to their school's performance data. A parent can very easily use the application and ... http://www.davidtucker.net/2009/09/30/colorado-growth-model-and-the-max-awards/ I must admit that my session is going to be pretty awesome. While some people get to speak for an hour - or maybe an hour and a half, I will be speaking for 8 hours (with some breaks of course). I will be presenting on Building ColdFusion ... http://www.davidtucker.net/2009/09/24/come-learn-about-cf9-with-flex-and-air-at-adobe-max-2009/ I was working with a CF9 + Flex 4 example last night. This was a new installation of CF9 - and I hadn't tweaked any of the remoting settings at all (more on that in a bit). I was setting up a data paging example - and noticed ... http://www.davidtucker.net/2009/08/20/quick-cf9-remoting-tip/ We are now only two weeks away from Flash Camp Atlanta! We have some amazing speakers lined up including names like: Ben Stucki, Jesse Warden, Greg Wilson (Adobe), Christian Saylor, Carl Smith, Lief Wells, and more... You will certainly want to be at this event. ORM for the AIR Developer I ... http://www.davidtucker.net/2009/08/14/flash-camp-atlanta-right-around-the-corner/ The Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook from O'Reilly is now available for the Kindle. This book is great for anyone from beginning to advanced and covers Flex, Flash, and JavaScript/HTML AIR development: The hands-on recipes in this cookbook help you solve a variety of tasks and scenarios often encountered when using ... http://www.davidtucker.net/2009/06/30/adobe-air-1-5-cookbook-available-for-kindle/