Category Archives: RIA

Flex Camp Wall Street and Flex on the Cloud Videos

By James Ward | Published: March 8, 2010

Two great Flex conferences have recently posted their video recordings: Flex Camp Wall Street Flex on the Cloud There were numerous great sessions and speakers at each of these conferences. At Flex Camp Wall Street I presented “Flex Stuff I am Excited About”. Check it out and let me know what you think.

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Upcoming Presos: Flash Camp Chicago, Devnexus & Flex on the Cloud in Atlanta, Java Posse Roundup, and TSSJS Las Vegas

By James Ward | Published: February 24, 2010

I’ll be attending and presenting at a number of great events over the next few weeks: February 26 Flash Camp Chicago March 8 – 9 Devnexus in Atlanta March 10 Flex in the Cloud in Atlanta March 16 – 19 Java Posse Roundup in Crested Butte, Colorado March 17 – 19 The Server Side Java Symposium in Las Vegas I hope [...]

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Flex 4 and Java Basics Video

By James Ward | Published: February 23, 2010

Here is a new screencast that walks through the basics of integrating Flex 4 and Java: (Open full-size video in a new window)

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Flex Performance on Mobile Devices

By James Ward | Published: February 21, 2010

This past weekend I spent an hour optimizing the Flex 4 scrolling demo that I posted last week. The original demo was intended to show how to hook up touch events to the Flex 4 List / DataGroup controls. This new version adds some optimizations for the touch event handling and adds the [...]

Also posted in Flash Player, Flex, Mobile | 17 Comments

Flex 4 List Scrolling on Android with Flash Player 10.1

By James Ward | Published: February 19, 2010

UPDATE 1: The first version of this demo was intended to show how to hook up touch events to the Flex 4 List / DataGroup controls. I’ve posted a new version that adds some optimizations for the touch event handling and adds the kinetic flick behavior. One of the challenges of running existing web content on [...]

Also posted in Flash Player, Flex, Mobile | 22 Comments

Flex Apps on Mobile Devices

By James Ward | Published: February 17, 2010

This week at Mobile World Congress Adobe has been showing off Flash Player 10.1 on a variety of mobile devices. Last week I received Google’s Nexus One device with an early version of Flash Player 10.1 on it. Here is a video I shot today showing how Flex applications can run on mobile [...]

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Geek Week in Denver

By James Ward | Published: February 14, 2010

This week in Denver is going to be a total geek fest! I’m pretty excited about three great events: Monday Feb 15: Jason Huggins on Web-application testing with Selenium Tuesday Feb 16: Denver Tech Meetup Thursday Feb 18: Flex and The Cloud (I’m presenting at this one.) There is a rumor that we might record a Drunk on [...]

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Time to Update to Flex SDK 3.5a

By James Ward | Published: February 12, 2010

If you are using a Flex SDK before 3.5a then it’s probably time to update. Flex SDKs before 3.4 have a security vulnerability. I believe the problem is actually in the HTML template, so when you update make sure that you also update the HTML templates that you are using. The Flex [...]

Also posted in Adobe AIR, BlazeDS, Flex | 5 Comments

London Event Tomorrow: RIAs with Java, Spring, Hibernate, BlazeDS, and Flex

By James Ward | Published: February 9, 2010

Tomorrow night, Wednesday Feburary 10 2010, I’ll be speaking to the London Java Community about RIAs with Java, Spring, Hibernate, BlazeDS, and Flex. I hope to see you there!

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