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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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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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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Tutorial: Salesforce.com on AIR with Flex 3
This tutorial has been updated to Flex 3 Beta 2. The new version is now on the Adobe Developer Connection: Building a standalone Adobe AIR application on salesforce.com with Flex 3 The excitement around using Flex & AIR to build amazing front-ends for Salesforce applications continues to grow. Nitobi has posted a cool AIR application [...]
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Salesforce Apollo Widget
Dave Carroll of salesforce.com has posted a very cool Apollo Widget that pulls data from Salesforce and uses the Flex Toolkit for Apex. Very cool stuff!
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Salesforce Flex / Apollo Sample – Offline Data Sync
On Monday I presented at the Salesforce Developer Conference in Santa Clara. It was a great conference! The keynote was especially exciting because it kinda turned into the Flex/Apollo show. Near the middle of his keynote Marc Benioff went on about how great Adobe is for innovating with Flex and Apollo. He then brought Kevin [...]
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Eckel at JavaOne – Salesforce Conference – Google Tech Talk – San Diego JUG
There’s so much fun stuff going on it’s hard to keep my blog up-to-date. But I did want to note a couple of things… Bruce Eckel will be at JavaOne! He will spend some time in the Adobe booth and some time at various sessions. But the big news is that he and I will [...]
The Open Source Flex and Apollo Toolkit for Salesforce.com
A few months ago I met with Salesforce.com about Flex and Apollo. They had begun building some Flex applications that used the Flex Ajax Bridge to communicate with Salesforce. This worked but they wanted to be able to more easily build Flex and Apollo applications. So I took their JavaScript library and did an initial [...]
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My Recent Flex & Apollo Adventures
Sorry this blog has been pretty stagnant lately. Things have been totally crazy. I’ve been touring the country speaking at Java User Groups and other conferences. The JUGs have been really fun. It’s amazing to see how quickly the Java crowd falls in love with Flex, like I did a few years ago. There are [...]
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