It’s hard to believe that 2007 is almost over. It’s been an amazing year! Thanks for reading and contributing. I’m looking forward to another great year in 2008. And it all begins when I hit the road the second week of January for CodeMash 2008. I went to CodeMash last year and really enjoyed the [...]
Category Archives: Adobe AIR
Upcoming Events: CodeMash, RIA Jam, Flex-TurboGears Jam
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Online Video Series: Salesforce.com & Adobe
A few weeks ago I was able to participate in a Chalk Talk with Salesforce.com and StakeWare. The session focused on how Rich Internet Applications, Flex, and Adobe AIR relate to the Force.com platform. With this combination of technologies companies like StakeWare can quickly build business applications that have rich user interfaces that work the [...]
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Speaking at CodeMash 2008: “RIAs – Beyond the Buzz”
I just received notification that I was accepted as a speaker for CodeMash 2008! This will be my second year speaking about Flex at CodeMash. Last year was a ton of fun! Between sessions we would head down to the indoor water park for an Open Spaces session on the Lazy River or for some [...]
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My Dreamforce Keynote Demos
At Salesforce.com’s 2007 developer conference, called Dreamforce, I did a few minutes of demos during the day two keynote with Marc Benioff and Bruce Chizen. I showed three real applications built with Flex, Adobe AIR, and Salesforce.com. It was a fun experience and I only had a few minor demo glitches. Thanks to PodTech the [...]
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FREE RIA Developer Camp – Nov 5 in San Francisco – Sign up now!
I’ll be presenting at the RIA Developer Camp on Nov 5th in San Francisco with Christophe Coenraets. Go sign up now before it’s full!
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Building an Adobe AIR application on salesforce.com with Flex 3
One of my old blogs has been turned into a full article on the Adobe Developer Connection and updated for Flex 3 Beta 2 & Adobe AIR Beta 2: Building an Adobe AIR application on salesforce.com with Flex 3 Also a recording of the session that I hosted at Dreamforce has been posted on the [...]
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What is a Rich Internet Application?
The more software experiences become like the natural world the more users are pleased with those experiences. One of the most powerful, understandable, and universal concepts in computing is the idea of a desktop containing files and folders. Users embraced this metaphor in their software because it modeled their natural world experience. There is a [...]
Also posted in Ajax, Flash Player, Flex, Java, RIA, Silverlight 21 Comments
Flex Builder for Linux!!!
I love vi. I’ve been doing Flex development on Linux for about three years – mostly with vi. But to be honest when building complex applications it is nice to have things like code hinting and integrated debugging. I’m sure you *could* make vi do that with Flex but I am not brave enough to [...]
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Flex and AIR: The New Standard for Business Application UIs
Last week I attended Dreamforce, salesforce.com’s annual developer conference. It was exciting to see all the innovation going on with business applications. Much of that innovation is centered around Flex and Adobe AIR. In fact 18 of the 32 companies in the salesforce.com incubator are using Flex and AIR! Does that give you an idea [...]
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