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Monthly Archives: February 2008

360|Flex Conference Review

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 27, 2008

360|Flex,AIR,Flex Well, the conference is done and over, and I’m on my way back to Lansing.  Man was it a fun time! Day 0: Sunday was the ‘pre-conference day’, and was free and open to everyone. While i didn’t sit in with either of the sessions, I did get to hang out with Tom and John, [...]

Adobe, Flex

Flex 3 & AIR released TODAY!

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 25, 2008

AIR,Flex,AJAX,Open Source,BlaseDS,Apollo As expected, and noted in my previous Blog entry, Adobe made some big announcements today including: Adobe Flex 3 — The RIA application framework used to design the latest Internet applications deployed to the cross-platform Flash Player. Adobe Flex Open Source — Adobe has announced that the Flex Framework, and SDK will are [...]

Adobe, ColdFusion, Flex

The buzz is in the AIR…

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 24, 2008

AIR,Apollo,Flex,Flash,ADC,360|Flex Timing is everything, and the rumors on the street is that 360|Flex is the place to be for a bunch of announcements from Adobe.  Will we see Flex 3, AIR 1.0, or a free scoop of ice cream for everybody? Who knows. I will be blogging, twittering, and attempting to capture as much of [...]

Adobe, Flex

Is Flash a real programming Language?

4 Comments Posted by on February 23, 2008

Flash,ActionScript,Flex,Adobe,Programming While waiting at Detroit Airport for my flight (thanks to Northwest for delaying yet another of my flights!) the gentlemen sitting next to me noticed me going through my presentation for 360|Flex this coming week.  Apparently a web-designer in England, he mentioned to me that he didn’t realize that the Flash platform was powerful [...]

Adobe, Flex

Why does Microsoft hate us?

6 Comments Posted by on February 11, 2008

Microsoft,Access,Office,ColdFusion,Sandbox,SQL,Query While I find it almost cliche to bash Microsoft about many of their products, services, and well, business manner, this one I just can’t keep a tight-upper lip about anymore. Most of the people that know me, know I’m not really a "Microsoft Fan-Boy", but I do use many of their products.  My primary [...]

Personal

Flex 3 Usergroup Tour Wrap-up

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 9, 2008

Flex,Usergroup,Tour,AIR,Adobe,Kevin Hoyt,Techsmith Well, last Wednesday, the 6th, the Michigan Flex User’s Group hosted Kevin Hoyt, in what was being called the "Flex 3 / AIR Usergroup tour".  Kevin has been traveling across the country (and soon the world) to spread the word about Adobe Flex 3 and AIR technologies.  I was lucky to spend a [...]

Adobe, Flex, Personal

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