Flex Archive

  • Heading to FFK09 – Cologne

    Heading to FFK09 – Cologne

    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...

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  • Flash at the Lake – Zurich, Switzerland

    Flash at the Lake – Zurich, Switzerland

    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...

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  • Using type checked arrays in MXML

    Using type checked arrays in MXML

    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...

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  • The Progressive Web Tutorials

    The Progressive Web Tutorials

    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....

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  • Flash Platform Round Table Discussion

    Flash Platform Round Table Discussion

    What do you get when you put Stefan Richter, Mike Jones, Dave Williamson, James Whittaker, Bola Roibi and Andrew Shorten in the same room? An interesting discussion on the power of the Flash community and some of the new challenges the Flash Platform faces, that’s...

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  • Flex, ActionScript and AIR Training

    Flex, ActionScript and AIR Training

    I’m happy to announce a new set of intensive one-day courses on Flex, ActionScript and AIR that I’ll soon start delivering at Skills Matter in London. During that day you’ll get a thorough overview of the technology and some good hands-on experience building various real...

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  • Adobe’s Rich Internet Applications Roadmap

    Adobe’s Rich Internet Applications Roadmap

    There’s quite a bit of interesting info in this video recording on Adobe’s Rich Internet Applications Roadmap. Particularly note the focus areas for 2009 with Flash Player “Argo” and “Stratos”, the plans for mobile and devices and ideas for AIR extensibility.      

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  • The State of ColdFusion

    The State of ColdFusion

    ColdFusion is dead, long live ColdFusion! Before I knew it a simple twitter post about free ColdFusion workshops in Brussels turned into a heated debate on whether or not ColdFusion is a dead technology. Thought it was worth doing a blog post with my perspective...

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  • FlexCamp 2008 Belgium

    FlexCamp 2008 Belgium

    Today the Adobe User Group Belgium organized a FlexCamp in Antwerp with some fantastic speakers lined up including no less than three Adobe employees (Matt Chotin, James Ward and Chet Haase) which must be a new record for us. I presented a slightly updated version...

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  • Feweb – Flash versus Javascript

    Feweb – Flash versus Javascript

    I just got back from the annual Feweb event, this year I was scheduled in the Rich Internet Applications track to do a Flash versus Javascript battle with none other than Peter-Paul Koch, moderated by Gijs Van Essche. Despite our sincere efforts it was difficult...

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