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Flex 2 months ago

The Flex team just provided some insight into what’s next for Flex - http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/2011/11/your-questions-about-flex.html

PhoneGap Day Videos now available 3 months ago

A great way to learn a lot about PhoneGap — http://phonegap.com/2011/11/03/relive-phonegap-day-with-videos/

JavaScript, CSS, HTML Frameworks and Tools – my list 3 months ago

One of the challenges in the world of HTML/JavaScript/CSS app development is cobbling together your kitchen sink of frameworks, tools and other technologies. When you start looking around, it feels like there is an endless list of options, which is good and bad!  Recently, I’ve been …

Upgrading my Macbook Pro to a SSD (solid state drive) 3 months ago

Solid-state drives (SSDs) have been available for a few years now, but I’ve been reluctant to move to one due to some early problems that friends of mine had.  When a SSD fails, there is no warning… no clicking drive sound, and no opportunity to save a few files.  When it crashes, …

Stupid PhoneGap Tricks – loading external content 3 months ago

Most PhoneGap apps are built so that the HTML/JS/CSS content is bundled into the app (see my previous blog post).  I wondered if it was possible to load external content into the PhoneGap container, and after a few minutes of looking at the APIs, I discovered that it is doable, at least on …

How PhoneGap impacts how we evangelize Flex 3 months ago

DISCLAIMER:  The following is my personal opinion and not necessarily that of my employer (Adobe Systems, Inc.). The PhoneGap announcement at MAX 2011 really got a lot of people excited (including me!), and it raised a few questions about how it changes our jobs as evangelist.  PhoneGap gives us …

What is PhoneGap? 3 months ago

Earlier this week at Adobe MAX, it was announced that Adobe had started the process (signed definitive agreement) of acquiring Nitobi, the makers of PhoneGap. After this announcement, I had multiple conversations with conference attendees and found that several of them really had no idea what …

A super simple approach to Splash Screens for Flex Mobile … 4 months ago

If you are fairly new to mobile app development with Flash or Flex, I bet you have run into the following issue when creating your splash screens — You create a splash image that looks great when the device is held in portrait orientation: …but then when you turn it landscape, you get …

VShieldUpdate process spiking CPU after Mac OS X Lion … 4 months ago

I’m writing this article because it took me longer than expected to find an answer to this fairly simple problem.  Hopefully this post will save you some time. Problem: After updating to OS X Lion, I noticed that the fans were spinning constantly and my battery was being quickly drained.  A …

My Adobe MAX session – Migration to the Cloud – How Do I … 4 months ago

During the past year, I’ve learned a lot about various cloud computing offerings including Amazon EC2 / S3 / CloudFront / Beanstalk / RDS / etc., Rackspace Cloud, Salesforce.com, Cloud Foundry, Heroku, and of course, the growing number of Adobe cloud-related offerings.  I’ve also …

Greg Wilson

Adobe Developer Evangelist focused on building enterprise applications. Husband, Father, Pilot, Musician. Side projects gregstoolkit.com, chessjam.com . http://GregsRamblings.com

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