Beta News article and Dr. Dobbs article talk about Adobe's recent release of the Flex 2 development platform and the client-side Flash Player 9 for rendering of Rich Internet Applications. I have always been impressed with Flex back when it was called...

When describing the various systemic qualities of a system to-be developed, one of the least-mentioned is that of portability. I am referring to portability as the need to port one application on one platform to a different platform. So, the question...

Well I finally gave my TechEd presentation 'Bits to Bolts: Bridging the Gap between the Solutions and Infrastructure Architecture' and I got exactly what I wanted out of it: controversy. There were some things that I would do differently of course to...