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13 August 2007
Web On The Piste (New Zealand).

I'll be attending and speaking at the first " Web On The Piste " in New Zealand next week. This is a conference being organized by both Straker and Gruden , two companies in which I've had a lot of positive dealings with over the years. It's shaping up Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, Flex, Adobe, Conference, Community, Web On The Piste, WebDU, WOTP

 

25 July 2007
We gave birth to RIA.

Adobe's Mike Downey and I were throwing comments back and forth on twitter.com this morning, it was derived from Brad Becker (ex Flash Product guy @ Macromedia and now Microsoft staffer) post on RIA . Brad posted this a few months ago when JD @ Adobe Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, Flex, Evangelists, Flash, Adobe, AJAX, RIA, Fash Killer, Twitter, Google Gears, Community

 

10 May 2007
Going flex to Silverlight: The basics (easy stuff first).

Introduction This is going to probably annoy some, and signal mixed messages but overall the approach I am taking is to provide a context driven learning path on how to go from Adobe Flex coding to Microsoft Silverlight. I really don't want these posts Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, Flex, Flash, Adobe, XAML, Going Flex to Silverlight

 

27 April 2007
Flex Open Source, what's changed?

I've been getting a lot of requests for comments on this subject and I'll be brief. As I think it's a politically hot topic and I don't want to get into that level of discussion (no good can come from it). Flex SDK was free anyway. Flex compiler is now Read More...

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Filed under: Flex, Adobe

 

22 April 2007
Thanks Silverlight, you just validated RIA (Wrong, here's why)

In 2002 one of the guys ( Jeremy Allaire) whom I owe my house & lifestyle to, came up with an idea that Rich Internet Applications (RIA) should exist in a certain way, with a certain direction going forward. I trusted his idea, as the last one was Read More...

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Filed under: Silverlight, Flex, Adobe, AJAX, RIA, Microsoft, LiveCycle, XAML, DHTML

 

21 April 2007
2004 FLEX 1.0 compared to 2007 FLEX 2.0.1 you be the judge.

Note: This is Scott Barnes, talking clocked off the Microsoft pay roll (weekend now) and in talking about my hobby development in Adobe Flex (yes I do still use it and mentor other Flex Developers with my experience in it - so can we suspend the Microsoft Read More...

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Filed under: Flex, Adobe, Microsoft, History