The evil of Flash (according to HTML 5)
I just finished up a post on HTML 5 and Flash for InfoQ.com. The news post just covers the conversation happening in the community(s) (not my opinion). I am glad browser standards are finally evolving,...
View ArticleThe Perfect Flex Application Framework (Part 2 of 2)
In part one, I introduced some of the things that I believe convolute the Flex third party framework space – primarily the influence of MVC. The history around this pattern, particularly in the Java...
View ArticleArticle: Enterprise Flex Security
Adobe has published an article that Ryan Knight and myself wrote up a few months ago. It gives a very quick overview of securing the server side of Flex applications that using Spring BlazeDS...
View ArticleFlash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0
I haven’t been very active with writing for InfoQ.com lately. My lack of activity has been primarily due to time constraints, but has also been because I have been a bit bored with the recent RIA news....
View ArticleCairngorm: All the worst parts of Java
Like many Flex developers, I came to Flex development after a long stay in the Java world. For many years, Java and the surrounding community provided an exciting technical playground. Overall, the...
View ArticleTalk Back: How do you test your Flex applications?
At Gorilla Logic we are proud of using our FlexMonkey tool to test the enterprise Flex applications we are building, but my curiosity has been growing at how others in the community are testing their...
View ArticleArticle: A Deep Dive into Flash Builder 4
Dzone.com / JavaLobby has published my ‘A Deep Dive into Flash Builder 4‘ article. I wrote it over Christmas on the beta 2 release of Flash Builder, so hopefully everything is still up-to-date now...
View ArticleUpdated: BlazeDS & Spring Refcard
James Ward and I have updated our Dzone Refcard on using BlazeDS & Spring. You can check it out at: http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/flex-4-and-spring-3 Continue reading →
View ArticleChimp Flex 4 Update / Flex Security Framework
What is Chimp? Chimp is a simple component for doing role based permissions in Flex. It uses metadata and a generic ArrayCollection of permission strings to display the proper components for a given...
View ArticleBook Review: Flex 4 Fun
I’ve been working with Flex since 2007, starting with version 2.0.1. Also, I’ve been working with Flex 4 for a few months. So, recently, when I went looking for a Flex 4 book, I wanted something that...
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