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Monthly Archives: March 2008

That tears it! I’m switching!

2 Comments Posted by on March 24, 2008

Apple,MacBook,Microsoft,Vista I’ve become a statistics.  I’m joining the league of people who are deciding to ditch the Microsoft Platform and going to the Mac.  While I’ve been thinking about it for a while, but the last couple of months have done me in with Vista.   I was one of the ones that was excited about [...]

Personal

Flex Camp Cleveland Announced

1 Comment Posted by on March 22, 2008

Flex,AIR,Adobe,FlexCamp,Cleveland,Ohio There is an excellent one-day software conference in Cleveland on April 7th.  It’s called Flex Camp Cleveland and it offers an opportunity to get a fast education to programming in Flex by Adobe.  Please visit www.flexcampcleveland.com to see the line-up of expert guest speakers.  Ben Forta, noted author and web developer, will give the keynote [...]

Adobe, Flex

Why are you NOT using LiveCycle DS?

8 Comments Posted by on March 15, 2008

Adobe,LiveCycle,LCDS,FDS,ColdFusion Every time I show one of my demos at a usergroup meeting, or just with a customer, the sound of jaws dropping is something I’ve gotten used to.  It is not because of the fancy graphics, or the bug-free code (this is where the people who actually have seen my demos start laughing), but [...]

Adobe, ColdFusion, Flex

BlueDragon CFML engine open-sourced!

3 Comments Posted by on March 10, 2008

Since this is the second-best supported CFML engine out there, this is pretty big news.  No longer will the cost of running a CFML server be the largest deterrent to people going to CFML.  The OSS crowd will like this announcement too http://www.newatlanta.com/corporate/news/bluedragon_opensource_announce.jsp

ColdFusion

Presentations Posted Online, Upcoming Talks

Leave a Comment Posted by on March 9, 2008

360|Flex,OOP,Ann Arbor Spark A few things: Code samples from my session at 360|Flex are now online!  Click on the "Code Samples" section above for the PPT and Projects zipped up. I will be speaking at the Ann Arbor SPARK on Monday the 10th, 6pm on RIAs.  If you are in the area come and stop [...]

Flex

The RIA Landscape (and which platform to choose for a new project)

3 Comments Posted by on March 6, 2008

Microsoft,.NET,Flash,Flex,AIR,Adobe,Silverlight I recently got an email from a co-worker which said: “I recently got tasked with creating a new way that students can track their time.  The Dean demanded that it would be ‘cool enough to use every day,’ although I don’t really know what that means.  I’m pretty sure he’s talking about that RIA [...]

Adobe, Flex

Thoughts on Offline Silverlight

1 Comment Posted by on March 4, 2008

Silverlight,.NET,Microsoft,Offline,AIR The Blog-o-Sphere has just been abuzz since Ryan Stewart from ZDNet wrote about how the next big announcement for Microsoft’s Silverlight project is that it is going to support an Offline mode, akin to Google Gears or the AIR platform. My question to this is why?  What is gained by having an application, that [...]

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