Oct 24th, 2009
New ChessJam blog created for game-specific posts
I’ve created a separate blog for ChessJam-specific news. I will continue to blog about ChessJam here on Greg’s Ramblings but only when it’s relevant to the Adobe developer community. For example, I’m working on a new post that goes into some details on how the app was built with Flex, AIR, ColdFusion and LiveCycle Data [...]
Oct 19th, 2009
ChessJam and Robots – A.I. saves the day
A few days ago, I blogged about the roll-out of ChessJam, an online chess app built on Flex/AIR, ColdFusion and LiveCycle Data Services. The roll-out has gone well but we have quickly learned that our real challenge is creating a new chess playing community! From analyzing our logs, here is the typical experience over the [...]
Oct 16th, 2009
Adobe AIR Auto-Update – How to force some updates and make others optional
If you are looking for information on how to add auto-update capabilities to your Adobe AIR app, start with my earlier blog post, “Adding auto update features to your AIR application in 3 easy steps“. Most updates to software applications are optional for the user. The typical flow is that the user is notified that [...]
Oct 15th, 2009
My pet project – ChessJam – live online chess with a fun attitude
For the past eight months, I’ve been working with two friends, Todd Williams and Sean Carey, on a little side project called ChessJam. This project started in February, 2009 when Sean and I decided to play a game of online chess with each other to finally resolve who was the better player. We explored several [...]
Oct 14th, 2009
Updated: Adding auto update features to your AIR application in 3 easy steps
In August, 2008, I blogged “Adding auto update features to your AIR application in 3 easy steps“. It gets many views every day so I spent a little time today updating it to be AIR 1.5 compatible and to include a few common mistakes that developers make when implementing auto-update. I’ll do a new blog [...]
Oct 12th, 2009
Adobe Flex Certification – Attest Pro
At speaking events, I am often asked about Flex Certification. As the demand for Flex developers increases, many employers are looking to certification programs as a means of pre-qualifying applicants. I’m not a big fan of using a single test to pass or fail potential employees because some of us are just not good test [...]
Oct 2nd, 2009
What's all this LiveCycle noise at Adobe MAX about?
You may have noticed that this year’s Adobe MAX has a lot of noise about LiveCycle ES and you may be wondering what it’s all about. If you would like to see a good overview of LiveCycle along with some great demos, I recommend you grab one of the remaining seats in Marcel Boucher’s session [...]
Oct 2nd, 2009
Avoka SmartForm Composer for Adobe LiveCycle ES
LiveCycle ES is taking a larger role this year at Adobe MAX than in previous years. There are sessions, labs, pre-conference labs (sold out!) and tons of information about LiveCycle. In addition to all of Adobe’s activity, I wanted to make you aware of something new from one of our partners, Avoka Technologies called SmartForm [...]
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