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 [...]
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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 kinetic flick [...]
Also posted in Flash Player, Flex, Mobile | 26 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 [...]
Also posted in Flash Player, Flex, Mobile | 23 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 devices with [...]
Also posted in Flash Player, Flex, Mobile | 3 Comments

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 [...]
Also posted in Cloud, Drunk on Software, Flex | 2 Comments

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 SDK 3.4 had [...]
Also posted in Adobe AIR, BlazeDS, Flex | 8 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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