Recently I tried to set up a Java backend with Tomcat 6.0 to use with Flex. I have to say that I ran into a few problems that caused me a bit of a headache, so I thought I would share my solution to hopefully help anyone else who might have this problem. If you are looking to [...]
Poll Everywhere - Is a SMS voting system for US cellular phone customers.  You can sign up for an account and have Poll Everywhere host your SMS vote contests.  Prices are anywhere from free, to over $300 per month.  The voting display is done using Flex and Flex charting options.  For Canada, LiveVote.ca is a [...]
Samuel Asher Rivello has posted his ActionScript 3 and MXML Coding Standards. If you're getting started with Flex, this may be of use to you.
Recently I haven’t been blogging at all. I’ve largely fallen off the face of the earth. Take a look at my sent emails from the past week and see if you can figure out why. I use colored labels in gmail to help easily categorize emails. The blue just means it was an email I received [...]
A tutorial on how to build Flex applications for Astro flash player. This will be a step by step tutorial which is intended to help you install the last Flex SDK from daily builds. Read Tutorial
This Wednesday evening (5/28), I am giving a talk on bleeding-edge Flash audio and music synthesis at the Boston Flash Platform Users Group . Jeez Louise, I must be about the worst self-publicist ever… I’ve been so busy that I forgot to blog my own speaking event. Anyway, the meeting is at the [...]
I caught the following post, "Lets call LiveCycle what is really is", which captures a certain zeitgeist as developers and architects try to understand what LiveCycle ES can mean to them.  In this post, I'd like to share my thoughts on how I think Software Developers and Architects - particularly those who are already taking Adobe technologies into the enterprise - can think about LiveCycle ES. To summarise, if you're a software architect or developer, then some of the ways you can think of LiveCycle ES are:   The backend to your Rich Internet Application front-ends A Service Oriented Architecture...
Flexcover 0.50 is now available on Google Code. This version is a lot better than the previous release, which we called “experimental” for a reason! There are two really enormous improvements in Flexcover 0.50: Branch (or path) coverage: the new Flexcover compiler tracks all the conditions in your code that affect control flow, and counts how [...]
Everything is ready for the kickoff of Multi-Mania 2008. And Koen wrote that the conference is fully booked with more than 1000 regitered users ! This year we have over 30 speakers in 4 simultaneous tracks on topics like design, development, video, audio, 3D and game development and also have 3 workshops on Adobe AIR, Flex, Flash Media Server and Microsoft Silverlight.

In the previous articles I've outlined some alternatives to the standard practice of using a Singleton as the ModelLocator in Cairngorm. I've tried all three of the alternatives I outlined in a real project so here's a summary of my opinions about them and the standard singleton...

Ok I have to admit it. I'm a fan of NetBeans. And with the new features added on the recent next release, NetBeans 6.1 is nearer to AJAX and RIA development. The famous IDE introduced the support to JavaScript, PHP scripting language, support for embedded CSS and HTML. NetBeans TV has published an interesting webcast to show the new JavaScript Editor in NetBeans IDE 6.1
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I just presented an opening session at WebManiacs in D.C. in the magnificent auditorium at The Carnegie Institution. Less than a handful of those present had any experience with Data Services, and so I spent the bulk of the time on LCDS, BlazeDS, data management services, and more. If you have yet to tinker with Data Services, you may want to check out Christophe Coenraets' LCDS Test Drive and BlazeDS 30 Minute Test Drive.
The Flex Team added some awesome features to the Adobe Flex Developer Center. First of all the Flex Cookbook site has been re-skinned in order to improve the readibility of Flex 3 code.
The next stop of 360Flex will happen in San Jose on August 18 - 20. On the conference's site the session's schedule was published and as you can read on your own it looks excellent (as usual). You can download the 360Flex San Jose schedule from the site.
The first part of consulting is having the initial meeting with the client. Using the Consulting Process, you identify the client’s problem, and determine if you are capable of fixing it. Not currently being with a firm causes me to scout for work (pouring through a TON of emails and phone calls, not [...]
Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code-named “Astro,” has just been released on the Adobe labs website. The player has some neat new features including native support for 3D effects, GPU hardware acceleration as well as some overall visual performance improvements. Here are some of the new features in more detail. Taken from the Adobe Labs site.. 3D Effects - Easily [...]
One of the things I’ve been waiting to see is an AS3 API for google Maps to surface. Well on May 2nd the people over at the google’s Maps API Team finally released one! This API lets Flex developers embed Google Maps in Flash applications. The API provides a number of utilities for manipulating and adding [...]
Adobe Flash Player 10 (codename "Astro") can be downloaded from Adobe site following this link: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ New features: Hardware acceleration - flash player will use the GPU for some visual processing tasks Advanced Text Layout - a new engine for text layout (as you may know the old TextField has big problems when rendering text, htmlText and images) [...]

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