Category Archives: Adobe AIR

Take the Tour de Flex

By James Ward | Published: November 17, 2008
Over the past few months Greg Wilson, Christophe Coenraets, and myself have been hard at work on a secret project. So today we are proud to announce the new Tour de Flex has just gone live! Tour de Flex showcases the capabilities of Flex, BlazeDS, LCDS, Adobe AIR, and Flash Player (now collectively called the [...]
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Flex at Dreamforce 2008

By James Ward | Published: October 30, 2008
Just a quick note to let everyone know that I’ll be at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference next week in San Francisco. On Tuesday I’ll be co-presenting a session on using Adobe AIR and Flex with Force.com. The rest of the time I’ll probably be in the developer lounge hacking on Flex code. Stop by and say [...]
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Adobe AIR and Flex in Amsterdam

By James Ward | Published: October 28, 2008
In a few weeks I’ll be over in Amsterdam for JFall and FlexCamp. Both events will have some new and exciting presentations about Adobe AIR and Flex. At JFall I’ll be presenting “The Future of the Open Source Flex SDK” and at the FlexCamp I’ll be presenting “Gumbo, what will bring Flex4 to us“. I [...]
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Flex in Denmark

By James Ward | Published: September 26, 2008
Next week I’ll be in Denmark for a few Flex presentations at JAOO and at the local university: Architecture of a Rich Internet Application (RIA) with Josh Holmes Developing RIAs using Adobe AIR & Flex Data Synchronization for Rich Internet Applications Oct 1st Presentation at the University Hopefully I will see some of you there!
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Beta Available: Adobe AIR 1.1 for Linux

By James Ward | Published: September 15, 2008
Having used Linux as my primary desktop for over ten years I can’t help but be a bit jealous of all the great software Windows and Mac users have available to them. But I can’t really blame the software creators for focusing on only those platforms. It’s just purely economics. The cost / benefit of [...]
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Thinking in Flex with Bruce Eckel

By James Ward | Published: September 3, 2008
Last year at JavaPolis Bruce Eckel, Christoph Rooms, and I did a keynote about Flex. That talk has been posted on Parleys.com (which btw is an awesome Flex app!). You can watch it there, in their Adobe AIR application, or right here using the new Parleys.com Share (beta) widget. If you have any problems watching [...]
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Podcast about Adobe AIR, Flex and BlazeDS / LCDS

By James Ward | Published: August 28, 2008
A podcast I recently did with Chariot Solutions has just been published. Let me know what you think.
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Atlanta JUG and Chicago Flex and AIR Developers Group

By James Ward | Published: August 7, 2008
In a few weeks I’ll be stopping by the Atlanta Java User Group and the Chicago Flex and AIR Developers Group: Atlanta – August 19, 2008 – Rich Internet Applications with Flex and Java Chicago – August 20, 2008 – The Future of Flex, Flash Player, and AIR Hope to see you there!
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Upcoming Conference Presentations: GeoWeb, OSCON, and LinuxWorld

By James Ward | Published: July 21, 2008
Over the next few weeks I’ll be presenting at a few conferences: GeoWeb – Map Based RIA Development Using Adobe Flex and AIR with Duane Nickull OSCON – Flex: the Open Source SDK for RIAs also with Duane LinuxWorld – Building Rich Internet Applications with an Open Source Stack I hope to see some of [...]
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