I’m back from an inspiring day in Cologne where I was lucky enough to participate in one of the workshop days of FFK09. Jens Brynildsen did a really excellent job going over the basics of the Away3D engine. He started out covering some of the history of 3D in Flash, what engines are available and read more
For a moment it looked as though I was going to miss out on this years FFK in Cologne — the largest German speaking conference covering web products and technologies organized by Marc Thiele and Sascha Wolter of Flashforum.de. This is already their 9th edition and not surprisingly it has completely sold out! At the read more
Last night I went to a ColdFusion sneak peek event with Ben Forta in Brussels. The first part of the presentation went mostly into BlazeDS versus LiveCycle Data Services. Data push with built-in conflict management always makes for a nice demo but its pretty much the same demo material I saw Christophe Coenraets present for read more
Flash at the Lake is a two day conference organized by the SFUG (Switzerland Flash User Group) taking place at the Rote Fabrik in Zurich, right by the lake side. Confirmed speakers include: Aral Balkan, Mario Klingemann, James Ward and many more. I’ll be doing a new presentation on using SQLite in Adobe AIR hopefully read more
It took me quite a while to get this done but the TWiT Live Desktop 2.0 update is finally available! Here’s a little summary of whats new in this version: Live video stream now using BitGravity instead of Stickam Double-click video to toggle between full screen and normal size Right-click video to set it as read more
I came across a surprising issue with Google Analytics yesterday when a client contacted me, it appeared page hits were getting logged for dozens of pages that don’t exist on his website. While I thought about the possibility of some PHP vulnerability or other security issue on the server, it occurred to me that obviously read more
As you probably know you can use your ActionScript 3.0 classes declaratively as MXML tags in Flex projects. When you do so you can declare properties inline in the tag: or the same can be done using a child tag with the property name you want to target: This is the text value declared inside read more
Skills Matter is holding an interesting three day event in London (May 11-13) that I’m very happy to be part of. “The Progressive Web Tutorials” includes four workshops on some of the latest and greatest web technologies: Amazon EC2, Dojo, Comet and of course Flex. I’ll be doing a full day hands-on “Introduction to Adobe read more
Those of you that follow me on Twitter will no doubt have been witness to some interesting (and sometimes tedious) discussions between myself, other Flash Platform enthusiasts and Scott Barnes of Microsoft. Scott was an ardent supporter of Flex before his move to Microsoft which makes his perspective all the more interesting. Thought it was read more
Scotch on the Rocks is going on the road this year doing one day events in London, Manchester and Edinburgh — I’m happy to be speaking at the London edition on June 1st. This years talk might get a little controversial with a title like “ColdFusion is Dead, or is It?“. Those of you that read more
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