James Ward - RIA Cowboy

We’ve just posted episode 2 of the new “Drunk on Software” video podcast. In this episode Jon Rose and I talk with Stu Stern from Gorilla Logic about automated testing and FlexMonkey - a tool for automating unit tests in Flex. Let us know what you think.

Just a quick note to let everyone know that I’ll be at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference next week in San Francisco. On Tuesday I’ll be co-presenting a session on using Adobe AIR and Flex with Force.com. The rest of the time I’ll probably be in the developer lounge hacking on Flex code. Stop by and say hello!

In a few weeks I’ll be over in Amsterdam for JFall and FlexCamp. Both events will have some new and exciting presentations about Adobe AIR and Flex. At JFall I’ll be presenting “The Future of the Open Source Flex SDK” and at the FlexCamp I’ll be presenting “Gumbo, what will bring Flex4 to us“. I hope to see you there!

At the JAOO conference in Aarhus, Denmark I was able to co-present with Josh Holmes from Microsoft about the Architecture of RIA. This presentation was technology agnostic so we didn’t talk about specific implementations using platforms like Flex / Flash or Silverlight. Josh has posted the presentation slides and detailed notes on his blog:

Architecture of RIA

Check it out and let us know what you think.

Next week I’ll be in Denmark for a few Flex presentations at JAOO and at the local university:

Architecture of a Rich Internet Application (RIA) with Josh Holmes

Developing RIAs using Adobe AIR & Flex

Data Synchronization for Rich Internet Applications

Oct 1st Presentation at the University

Hopefully I will see some of you there!

This week I’ve been at Oracle OpenWorld checking out all of the new applications Oracle has been building with Flex. Some of these seem to be integrating Flex and ADF which is a great combination of technologies! I’ve recorded videos of some of these applications which I hope to edit and publish here soon. One of those videos will feature the new Oracle MetaLink, which is a fantastic Flex application (details on Edwin Biemond’s blog).

It’s great to see Oracle doing amazing things with Flex! And it’s also great to see the community getting excited about the combination of Oracle technologies and Flex. While walking around OpenWorld I noticed a random whiteboard:

Three-tier client/server architectures using Oracle and Flex result in happy users! Wahoo!!!

Flex and JSF have both been widely adopted by the Java Community. In many instances developers must choose between the two technologies. Today Exadel announced a new product called Fiji which alleviates this decision by providing a simple and seamless way to integrate Flex and JSF.

This is very exciting news for Java developers. For more information read the press release, check out the product page, or see the live demos.

Last year at JavaPolis Bruce Eckel, Christoph Rooms, and I did a keynote about Flex. That talk has been posted on Parleys.com (which btw is an awesome Flex app!). You can watch it there, in their Adobe AIR application, or right here using the new Parleys.com Share (beta) widget. If you have any problems watching it here please let me know or file a bug. Thanks!

BTW: You can click on the video to swap the video and slides.

A podcast I recently did with Chariot Solutions has just been published. Let me know what you think.

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