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Adobe LiveCycle Developer Center gets a facelift! 2 years ago

The Adobe LiveCycle Developer Center website had a major upgrade today that I’m excited to see.  The new layout and content makes it much easier to get in and learn about LiveCycle.  As many of you know, LiveCycle can be a tough thing to get your head around…. the question “What …
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Tour de Flex reaches 10,000,000 samples viewed – now what?! 2 years ago

In just under a year, Tour de Flex has reached a milestone that many of us never imagined.   As of this past weekend, over 10 million samples have been viewed in Tour de Flex.   We launched  on November 17th, 2008 at MAX as an attempt to better spread the word about Flex in a more [...]
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The making of ChessJam Flex/AIR + ColdFusion + LiveCycle … 2 years ago

A few weeks ago, I unveiled a weekend project that I’ve been involved in for several months called ChessJam.  I am now making good on my promise to share why we the selected the technologies behind this desktop application for playing online head-to-head chess. Obviously this is primarily a …
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New ChessJam blog created for game-specific posts 2 years ago

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 …
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ChessJam and Robots – A.I. saves the day 2 years ago

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 …
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Adobe AIR Auto-Update – How to force some updates and … 2 years ago

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 …
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My pet project – ChessJam – live online chess with a fun … 2 years ago

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 …
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Updated: Adding auto update features to your AIR … 2 years ago

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 …
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Adobe Flex Certification – Attest Pro 2 years ago

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 …
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What’s all this LiveCycle noise at Adobe MAX about? 2 years ago

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 …
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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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