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Note: Some how this post never actually made it out of draft on my blog. Originally planned to be posted on 5/22/09. Sorry for the delay. I had an opportunity to present on Building AIR applications with JavaScript last week at CF.Objective. In preparation for this conference I built a few examples and used JQuery. [...]

I would like to think that I do a lot to help people in our community. I work with local user groups, present at conferences and generally put myself out there to aide people where I can. I don’t do this for any selfish reasons, I do it because I feel I should. I don’t [...]

Now that the Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst betas have been released on labs, we are going to see a huge influx of people taking their first look at what Flex 4 has to offer. Many of them are going to be migrating from Flex 3 and they are going to see a lot of [...]

I got pinged several times this morning in response to Aral Balkin’s post on the use of namespaces in Flex 4. I can’t get his site to load so I can not comment on his post there. But I feel strongly enough about this matter that I wanted to get something out in response right [...]

Back a few months ago I had the opportunity to present an introduction to Flex talk for the PDX RIA group. I promised to post the files we built during the live demo. Then this week I was honored to present and Adobe Tech Wedndesday to my peer Adobe UGM and Community experts. I gave [...]

I had a friend ping me tonight and ask me a Flex 4 question. So I whipped up a quick demo to see if I could provide an example. I was quickly stunned to find that I had an error in my project regarding the Matrix3D class. “1046: Type was not found or was not [...]

It was an exciting weekend in Seattle. Adobe hosted the first ever public Bug Quash event. Led by Nate and Marty the community finally had an opportunity to show Adobe we are willing to give back and help. I don’t know exactly how many bugs got quashed during the event, but I know that many [...]

I have been having a hard time getting things written down on this blog lately. Its not that I don’t have anything to say, hell get within 10 feet of me and you can’t get me to shut up. The problem is I am not feeling that writing out my thoughts and feelings are really [...]

In recent years there was only one Open Source conference and it was in Portland. But OSCON has grown beyond the means of our humble conference center and as such has choosen to move on to a bigger venue. OSCON has been the conference I have most wanted to attend for about the last 6 [...]

Hey Gang, Just thought I would let anyone that cares know I am presenting at the PDX RIA group here in Portland this week. The presentation will cover basic Flex, language/tools and components/events. From there the presentation will be based on questions from the crowd. I have some preliminary questions about BlazeDS and Gumbo component [...]