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Oops, Apple did it again 2 years ago

Here it goes – Apple officially locked itself out from majority of development community again. While people are trying to find justification for such move ( http://www.taoeffect.com/blog/2010/04/steve-jobs-response-on-section-3-3-1/ ) and while it came as a shock to some Adobe developers ( …
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Our new Flex book is a Java bestseller 2 years ago

Our new book “Enterprise Development with Flex ” made the Amazon bestseller’s list of … Java books: http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/3608/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_3_4_last This list is refreshed every hour so I’m not sure what place you are going to find it at, but …
keywords amazon, enterprise development, enterprise flex, flex, gp, java, java books

Open source alternatives to LiveCycle Data Servcies 2 years ago

Development of enterprise Flex/Java rich Internet applications benefits from using automated data integration solutions and productivity tools. Currently Adobe offers LiveCycle Data Services ES2 (LCDS) and open source BlazeDS 3.  While LCDS is certainly a great piece of software for those who …
keywords adobe, blazeds, clear toolkit, concurrent users, enterprise, flex, flex java, internet applications, lcds, livecycle data services, open source, productivity tools

One day Master Class on Flex Modularization comes to New … 2 years ago

Last week, I’ve presented on Flex modules and libraries at 360flex in San Jose, CA. This talk brought lots of developers to the room. After this  80-minute presentation I’ve been answering questions for another 25 minutes. Such an unexpected interest to this non-flashy and very …
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360flex, San Jose 2010, Day 3 2 years ago

Community Keynote at #360flex is about to start to the sounds of beat sequences. Why hire a DJ if Sean Moore, a remote Flex developer can call in via Skype from Colorado with video camera on and start spinning his disks? Tom is projecting the video on three large screens and the music goes …
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360flex, San Jose 2010, Tuesday 2 years ago

On Tuesday, I’ve attended a couple of panels and 2.5 sessions. The morning panel was titled “Principles of RIA” and was about bringing animation and effects to your RIA to make it more engaging. For some reason it didn’t get me excited as I have to deal with more prosaic issues on a daily …
keywords 360flex, animation, daily basis, flex, ria, sessions

First notes from 360Flex 2010 conference 2 years ago

I’ve arrived to San Jose,CA late on Sunday. By coincidence, there were three other speakers on the same plane from New York: Shashank Tiwari, Elad Elrom, and Jeff Tapper.  A short taxi ride to Marriott and one of the conference organizers, Tom Ortega, gives us a warm welcome in the lobby, “Hello …
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Two weeks, two flights, two conferences 2 years ago

The first two weeks of March I’ll be vacationing in training rooms – teaching and learning Flex.  I used the word vacationing because I love this part of my work the most. March 1-2: Advanced Master Class on Flex in Brussels, Belgium. This public 2-day training becomes more and more popular. …
keywords 360flex, advanced flex training, brussels belgium, conferences, flex, flights, march 1

Using Flex 4 Skin Inheritance To Make PictureButton … 2 years ago

Coming across several blogs that hint that custom Spark skins should not be created via OOP inheritance I felt challenged. After all, Spark skins are using inheritance already, so why should I be stripped of something I am so used to? In this post , I will create a PictureButton component that …
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Avoiding pitfalls of Flex RSL with Self Initialized … 2 years ago

Flex RSLs are notoriously naive in regards to dynamic object instantiation. Consider the following code snippet when the actual class descends Panel or it is a remoting DTO with the [RemoteClass] annotation: var className:String = "some.flex.class"; var clazz : Class = …
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