Category Archives: RIA

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!
Also posted in Flex, Hibernate, Java, Spring | Leave a comment

First Steps in Flex Screencasts

By James Ward | Published: January 24, 2010
A little over a year ago Bruce Eckel and I published First Steps in Flex. So far we’ve had great feedback on the book. The concise examples seem to resonate with how developers learn new technologies. Another way that developers learn is through seeing technologies firsthand. To better support that model of learning Bruce and [...]
Also posted in Flex | 3 Comments

Tampa Bay Adobe Developer Event this Thursday

By James Ward | Published: January 20, 2010
Adobe’s Enterprise Evangelism team including Greg Wilson, Christophe Coenraets, and myself are in Tampa, FL this week. On Thursday night we are rounding up the local geeks at Taverna Opa for free beers and drunken confabulation about Flex, The Flash Platform, and other topics that bore most normal people. Hope to see you there!
Also posted in Flash Platform, Flex | 1 Comment

Flex and The Cloud

By James Ward | Published: January 19, 2010
The combination of Flex and The Cloud is quickly becoming an IT and paradigm changing combination. Here are a number of recently published resources for learning more about this : An article I wrote has been published on the online Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine: Flex and The Cloud: Is this really just Client/Server 2.0? [...]
Also posted in Cloud, Flash Player, Flex, Ruby on Rails, Salesforce.com | 3 Comments

Flex 4, Java, Spring, and Hibernate in Flash Builder 4

By James Ward | Published: January 17, 2010
UPDATE 1: Flash Builder 4, BlazeDS 4, and Spring 1.0.3 have all been release so you no longer have to use beta or nightly builds of these products. Use the production versions! Last week I posted a screencast that walks through the basics of connecting a Flex 4 application to a Java / Spring back-end [...]
Also posted in Flex, Hibernate, Java, Spring | 68 Comments

Right90′s Super-Sexy Enterprise Flex RIA

By James Ward | Published: January 13, 2010
While at Dreamforce 2009 I was able to see some amazing enterprise Flex RIAs. Here is an RIA Cowboy Video of Right90‘s Sales Forecasting application. Let me know what you think.
Also posted in Flex, RIA Cowboy Videos, Salesforce.com | 1 Comment