I am in Burbank Airport, about to fly up to San Jose for 360 Flex . Reports of Day 1 have been blogged all day and thus far this looks like a highly successful event. I'll be presenting ColdFusion / Flex integration tomorrow.
Intelligent Enterprise is running an interview with Adobe's Jeff Whatcott discussing Flex, Ajax, RIAs, and more. Not a technical article at all, but if you need higher level content targeted at execs and technical decision makers, this will be of use.
You've got to check this one out. The Amgen Tour of California kicked off this week, and you can monitor race progress using a Flex app that combines Flex, Flex Data Services, Flash Media Server, and GPS equipped bikes. This is definitely one of the coolest Flex apps I have seen to date, and it was...
Tim Anderson of The Register attended a seminar on Flex 2, and reports back on Flex, Apollo, and competing with client-side Java and .NET.
I get asked about Flex and accessibility constantly, and was therefore really pleased to see this post by Sr. Technical Support Engineer Lin Lin which provides all the relevant links.
I am going to be in Brazil (home of the caipirinha ) at the end of the month, and while there I'll get the opportunity to speak to the Adobe User Group in São Paulo. I'll be covering ColdFusion/Flex integration, some Scorpio, some Apollo, and maybe other stuff too. Simultaneous translation...
Steve Moore of Larimer County, CO, wrote to tell me about the Property Explorer application he's created for viewing all information related to property records in Larimer County. This is a ColdFusion powered Flex 2 app which combines 3 different databases and multiple separate web pages into one...
Dave Nielsen of StrikeIron Web Services pinged me to let me know about Census Dashboard , a Flex Mashup created by Andrew Trice (of Cynergy Systems) using free StrikeIron APIs (for US zip code and census data lookup) and Yahoo maps. Very cool indeed.
Total Training has released a new Flex 2 course entitled Advanced Visual Programming . This course (9 hours on 2 DVD-ROMs) teaches how to work with embedded images and fonts, implement transitions and easing effects, apply filters and blends, and programmatically interact with mouse position and...
Bruce Eckel has posted his thoughts on Rich Internet Applications, why Java has failed as a viable client-side technology, and why he thinks Flash and Flex deserve some serious attention.