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Adobe’s Announcement on Flash: visually!

I’ve received so much feedback from many of my friends on Flex projects being cancelled or scheduled to be rewritten in another technology than Flex. Great Job Adobe, you did it!So what was really announced last week is the following: Yes, Adobe ...

The Future of Flex.

At first I thought “Wow, Adobe really messed up their communication”. They could have focused on what they are adding, strong support for HTML5 and CSS4, Adobe AIR for Mobile, and not on what they are removing, the Flash Player in the Brow...

The Future of Flex.

At first I thought “Wow, Adobe really messed up their communication”. They could have focused on what they are adding, strong support for HTML5 and CSS4, Adobe AIR for Mobile, and not on what they are removing, the Flash Player in the Brow...

Flex With Ruby on Rails talk – An AdobeMax preview

This is a presentation I gave in September 2011 at the Denver RIA Developers Group showing how to create a Flex application that interacts with a Ruby on Rails server. In fact it was schedule for the Flash Builder track of Adobe Max but was bumped to...

Flex With Ruby on Rails talk – An AdobeMax preview

This is a presentation I gave in September 2011 at the Denver RIA Developers Group showing how to create a Flex application that interacts with a Ruby on Rails server. In fact it was schedule for the Flash Builder track of Adobe Max but was bumped to...

Writing tests is not fun. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar….

At least so says my good friend Sean Voisen in his latest blog entry Thoughts on test-driven development. What, you are calling me a liar? :-) I must respectfully disagree with Sean. Not on the fact that he may think it’s not fun, that’s hi...

Redis-Flex: An ActionScript Library to integrate with Redis

Announcing redis flex An ActionScript Library to integrate with Redis. A while back I looked into accessing Redis directly from Flex and I found an existing library, as3redis that however didn’t support the new unified request protocol. So I wr...

To Infinity and… no beyond – An ActionScript bug…I mean, feature.

So yesterday I was asked about a bug in a legacy Rails and Flex application. There was one company name that wasn’t displayed correctly on the front-end. “Infinity Corp Name” was just displayed as “Infinity”, so nothing be...

To Infinity and… no beyond – An ActionScript bug…I mean, feature.

So yesterday I was asked about a bug in a legacy Rails and Flex application. There was one company name that wasn’t displayed correctly on the front-end. “Infinity Corp Name” was just displayed as “Infinity”, so nothing be...

Building Rails Apps for Rich Client – Using the bulk_api from Flex.

In this screencast we are going to show how to build a Rails app in a couple of minutes that is optimized for Rich Client. The application is a todo application build in Flex connecting using the bulk_api to the Rails server using my new bulk data sour...

Sitting is killing you

I started working standing, what seems now ages ago, after a chat with Tony Hilerson when I thought…why not try it. I spend most days of the week working at a customer site and they where not just eager when I asked if I could work standing, the...

RailsConf 2011 – Thank you!

It’s a wrap. Wow, that was fun and a great conference. It didn’t hurt that a party was planned every night. Engineyard, Bluebox, Github had open bars in a different places every night. Free beer for everyone. If that doesn’t feel like...