Apr 30th, 2008
I’ve been a Microsoft Windows fan since 1987 and have used Windows 286, Windows 386, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 and Windows Vista. As you can see, I have a long, loyal history with Windows. I pride myself on my deep understanding of [...]
Apr 27th, 2008
I was in Barnes and Noble tonight and found the book, “Beginning AIR: Building Applications for the Adobe Integrated Runtime” by Rich Tretola. I’ve spent the past 2 hours reading it – it’s a fantastic book for learning how to build AIR applications. You will find the table of contents and excerpts here More books [...]
Apr 25th, 2008
As mentioned earlier, I will be presenting at Webmaniacs. My session is titled, “Modular Development with Flex and LiveCycle ES“. I am also doing two sessions on Thermo, some very cool new technology coming soon from Adobe. Click the Thermo link above for an intro There is still time to register – sign up soon! [...]
Apr 25th, 2008
Yesterday, a new feature was made available on the Flex Developer Center (part of the Adobe Developer Connection) that allows multiple sources to be searched from one location. What’s cool about this new search feature is that it searches not only the numerous Adobe sites, but also other community-based sources such as blogs. More resources [...]
Apr 22nd, 2008
While flying home earlier tonight, I was tired and bored so I put my regular projects aside and started playing around with VMware Fusion and a couple of VMware images that I have acquired – one running Windows XP and one running Ubuntu Linux. I decided to do something fun — I picked a random [...]
Apr 20th, 2008
Two new bloggers have hit the scene recently that are a must for your daily reading: Gary Gilchrist - http://highway101.wordpress.com Gary is a software architect at Adobe that specializes in security and LiveCycle ES. I’ve known Gary for over two years and have found him to be one of the smartest guys I know. If you are [...]
Apr 17th, 2008
Some details have been posted about Flex 4 at http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+4 There are some interesting features being considered. Note that backwards compatibility is mentioned.
Apr 17th, 2008
I have been fascinated with 3D stereoscopy since I was a kid. I remember my first 3D poster – it came in a box of cereal and included the goofy glasses with one red lens and one blue lens. I would spend hours staring at the poster amazed at how a flat piece of paper [...]
Apr 16th, 2008
This is going to be a great event – 71 sessions! …including the one I’m giving titled, “Module Development with Flex and LiveCycle ES“. I will discuss the advantages of the component-based architecture of Flex for front-end development and LiveCycle ES for back-end development — and how, when used correctly, they can dramatically reduce development [...]