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	<title>James Ward &#187; Ruby on Rails</title>
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		<title>Flex and The Cloud</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ward</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flex]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#38; Flex Developer&#8217;s Magazine: Flex and The Cloud: Is this really just Client/Server 2.0? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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 :</p>
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<li>An article I wrote has been published on the online Flash &amp; Flex Developer&#8217;s Magazine: <a href="http://ffdmag.com/download-1-2010">Flex and The Cloud: Is this really just Client/Server 2.0?</a></li>
<li>I&#8217;ll be speaking on <a href="http://ria5280.org/calendar/event/2010/2/18/163821">Thursday, February 18 2010 at the Denver Flex User Group</a> about Flex and The Cloud</li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=list&#038;loc=en_us&#038;type=ondemand_seminar&#038;product=&#038;interest=int_rich_internet_applications&#038;audience=&#038;sdid=EGMQU">recording of a webinar</a> I co-hosted on the new Salesforce.com Cloud platform for developers has been posted</li>
<li>Jeff Douglas has posted <a href="http://blog.jeffdouglas.com/2010/01/11/developing-apps-with-the-stratus-framework/">a video walk through</a> showing how to use the new Salesforce.com Flash Builder 4 extension for Flex + Cloud apps</li>
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<p>Exciting stuff!  Let me know what you think!</p>
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		<title>Matt Raible Compares Flex, GWT, Rails and Grails</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Rich Web Experience 2009 conference, Matt Raible presented a very insightful comparison of &#8220;kick-ass&#8221; web frameworks including Flex, Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Ruby on Rails and Grails. I appreciate his &#8220;right tool for the job&#8221; approach which moves beyond technology dogma towards real solutions. He includes some very revealing charts comparing jobs posts, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At the Rich Web Experience 2009 conference, <a href="http://raibledesigns.com/">Matt Raible</a> presented <a href="http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/comparing_kick_ass_web_frameworks">a very insightful comparison of &#8220;kick-ass&#8221; web frameworks</a> including Flex, Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Ruby on Rails and Grails.  I appreciate his &#8220;right tool for the job&#8221; approach which moves beyond technology dogma towards real solutions.  He includes some very revealing charts comparing jobs posts, <a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com">StackOverflow</a> posts, mailing list traffic and other stats.  Check out the slides from his presentation:<br />
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