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Creative Programming in ActionScript 3.0
May 18, 2009 – 1:20 pm
I just finished my “Creative Programming in ActionScript 3.0″ session at day 1 of Multi-Mania 2009. Really enjoyed doing this new presentation though from the looks of it seemed I had more of a designer audience — so might have been a little code heavy. As promised here are my slides, along with the example read more
Flex Builder gets rebranded to Flash Builder
May 17, 2009 – 1:31 am
Something had to be done about confusing Flash Platform product names and if you paid close attention you could see this one coming for a while now. From the upcoming release onwards Flex Builder will be known as Flash Builder. I initially had some reservations about this but it does go a long way in read more
Heading to FFK09 – Cologne
April 23, 2009 – 5:04 pm
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
Flash at the Lake – Zurich, Switzerland
April 21, 2009 – 1:10 pm
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
Using type checked arrays in MXML
April 12, 2009 – 10:49 am
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
The Progressive Web Tutorials
April 10, 2009 – 1:52 pm
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
Flash Platform Round Table Discussion
April 1, 2009 – 2:47 pm
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 what! (via Serge Jespers)
Flex, ActionScript and AIR Training
March 10, 2009 – 10:10 pm
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 world examples. Here are the next few teach dates you read more
Adobe’s Rich Internet Applications Roadmap
January 23, 2009 – 2:32 pm
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.
The State of ColdFusion
January 9, 2009 – 9:15 pm
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 on the discussion. I’m not what you would call a read more