The Yahoo! Flex Coders mailing list group is really good at connecting developers with important people in the know at Adobe to get help with the strange bugs they’re having while developing applications with Adobe Flex.
However, Yahoo! Groups is such an unfortunate and antiquated technology to use for developers asking and answering questions.  Sure, it’s [...]

To read the article, click Why the Flex Coders Yahoo! Group Should Be Replaced by StackoverFlow.com.

Well, everyone is blogging about it. On Friday night, I attended Flash Camp in Boston. It was a classy event put on by Adobe at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, MA. Nice venue, and lots on enthusiasm from everyone around about FB4.  I really appreciated the ice-cold Smuttynose Shoals Pale Ale.  
Anyway, all the talks [...]

To read the article, click Flash Builder 4 Released to Cheers and Beers.

In Professional Flex 3, I wrote a chapter on integrating Flex with Java-based Web Services  (see below to download actual chapter).  More specifically I used Grails (similar to Ruby on Rails, except for the Java world), which is based on Groovy (a dynamic language that compiles to the Java platform) to expose SOAP-based Web Services [...]

To read the article, click Working with Grails and Adobe Flex – Download Free Chapter from Professional Flex 3.

It’s Here!  For about a year I worked with a team of smart guys (Andrew Trice, Joseph Balderson, Peter Ent, Jun Heider, Tom Sugden, David Hassoun, Joe Berkovitz) to create what we think is one of the best books out there on Adobe Flex.  It’s around 1400 pages, nearly 5 pounds, of comprehensive knowledge.  It’s available [...]

To read the article, click New Book: Professional Flex 3 Available Today..

Like many, all of a sudden fraudulent credit card charges started appearing on my account.  Bank of America caught it quickly.  I don’t know for certain, but I’m fairly confident it has to do with the Heartland Security breach. However, there’s no real way for me as a consumer to know what of my information [...]

To read the article, click Heartland Security Breach and Bank of America’s mishandling of my personal information..

I’m quite excited by the idea of the new Android TMobile G1.  Mostly, because I’m an existing TMobile customer, so there’s no great pain for me to switch to try this device (if I’m willing to give up my Blackberry, which has treated me quite well).  But, I’m a big believer in the future of [...]

To read the article, click Google Android Photo Sharing Application Idea.

Warning Graphical Content Ahead.  Parents be warned.  Topless male operating a computer.
In Boston, it can get quite humid in the summer time, not Washington or Florida humid, but nonetheless….  Coupled with the fact that I live in the top floor of a brick building that heats up to incredible temperatures (its 90 in here right [...]

To read the article, click Ultimate Home Office for Less that $100.

Yesterday I came across a post over at Inside RIA (probably the best place to keep up on RIA ) about a handy new mockup Tool called Balsamiq Mockups.  In the past, I’ve used a lot of Viso and PowerPoint with various templates for doing mockups, so I’m always interested in tools that help me [...]

To read the article, click The excitement of Adobe AIR continues with Balsamiq Mockups.

Since I’m busy, busy with client work and writing a book, thought I’d at least post a colorful photo I took a few weeks ago while on a road trip to North Carolina.  Any interest of viewing more of these types of photos, visit my Picasa gallery of Saturated North Carolina.

If you care [...]

To read the article, click Sunset,North Carolina Style..

Over at Signal vs Noise, DHH just wrote about how his MacBook AIR could be his only machine, and talks about powerful enough to all his development work.  In fact, he’s using it so much, his MacBook Pro is gathering dust.
I’ve been in the camp of small, lightweight dev machines for a couple years now.  [...]

To read the article, click Small Form Factor Development Laptops Rule!.