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Cairngorm 2.1

I’ve never been a super huge fan of Cairngorm, or frameworks in general. I like them, I think they help, but they can also overwhelm the project. In CF, I like Model Glue, in Flex…
I might have to change my tune on "Car gram/care gorm", after hearing what Stephen Webster has to say at [...]

MAX 2006 in one post

Well since for whatever reason, I got no wifi love from the free AP for MAX, here’s my blow by blow… in one blow.
Day 1,2, and 3Keynote: Great. Cool stuff. and holy hell, Blue Man Group! That’s cool! The keynote touched on the typical cool things keynotes do. Cool new things in Flash, Photoshop, Fireworks, [...]

greatings from Las Vegas

we made it. Landed Friday night. It’s been a while since either my wife or myself has been to vegas… Smoke Sucks!
Check in is easy the Venetian operates like a Fry’s, the next person holds up a little sign and a traffic control suit sends you to the next open check in clerk/person. Neat.
We ended [...]

worried about being bored in Vegas?

I’m pretty sure "boredom" and "Vegas" go together about as well as "Secure" and "WIndows"
But in case you’re worried that you’ll have nothing to do when you’re not absorbing the wisdom of the MAX presenters… Ben Forta has you covered. However since I’m a nice guy Here’s the copy-paste from Ben’s blog.

Sunday: MiniMAX at "The [...]

Testing MXNA ping

Just testing my MXNA ping code. Please don’t be concerned with the man behind the curtain. Move along… :)

Weak sauce Adobe, weak sauce

So the Blogosphere scuttle but is that the cool posters Adobe has for Flex and AS class inheritance…. not Free!
Ryan Stewart and Rey Bango cover this as well.
I completely understand, these things aren’t cheap to make, but is it worth the cost of good vibes in the developer communitee? Is the thousand dollars I shelled [...]

360Flex

It’s alive!!
360Flex: Flex from all angles
We’ve got a name! A few other things too, but the name is the most notable part for the moment. Stay tuned, good things are coming!

New Conference on the block

Keep your March open, early March. Dates not set in stone but it looks like the as-yet-unnamed-Flex-Conference wil be early March.
Tom Ortega (silvaFUG fame) and I, as well as Adobe and Ebay are talking about getting a conference started. It’s really Tom’s brainchild, but Ebay and Adobe have both jumped on board like crackheads on [...]

CFMX on Tomcat (Buh bye jrun)

You may or may not know I’ve recently moved to a mac. I’ve had one for writing for a while now, but just a few weeks ago I got a MacBook Pro and do all my work on it.
Using Parallels I’ve got XP running in a nice little window on Monitor two :)
That said, [...]

Last chance… going to MAX?

Today is your last chance to register for MAX, better hurry, if you’re waiting until the last possible micro second. I’ve been registered since…. oh I guess about 2 minutes after Forta announced that it was open for registration… I can’t wait. Several ex coworkers will be there as well as people [...]

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