Seeking AIR Best Practices from the community

A small team in my Company are trying to get AIR approved as a Company standard for Rich Desktop Applications.  We already have Flex 2 & 3 approved, but would like to go one step further and start developing AIR apps for internal uses.  One thing we are needing is …

My Nike + Challenge and Goal

As a developer I mostly sit on my butt and do absolutely nothing but type, move my arms and occassionally get up to use the bathroom. I drink excessive amounts of coffee, energy drinks, candy, the works... typical developer right? Well i cant speak for us all, but I …

CfqueryParam bug/Cache issue

I ran into a very odd issue this week with Coldfusion 7. I have an application that I have had up and running for a couple years and I made some database changes, CFquery (DAO) changes.  Since I use Illudium-PU 37 Generator for most of my Bean, DAO, Gateway, & services …

Change is good, but only if its managed well

Some say Embrace Change, Change is good right? Why is it that so
many people in companies fight it with their last dying breath?  Those
that fight are doing it for very simple reasons that make perfect sense
to me anyways, because we all do it.  You see people are …

In memory of 9/11

My thoughts and prayers go out to all the people who were affected by this tragedy.  I hope this country never forgets that day. 

-- Peace out

360|Flex on AMP

Just thought I would help spread the word that you can watch a majority of the 360|Flex Sessions on AMP (Adobe Media Player).  I just finished watching the Mate preso and it was great.  I imagine the rest are awesome as well I just need to squeeze some time out to …

Adobe & Degrafa Collaborate

I often pondered what would happen to Degrafa when Thermo hits the shelves, now it looks like Adobe has made a partnership with the Degrafa team and will initially adapt Degrafa's core graphics engine into Flex Graphics.  I think this is an awesome idea and will only …

Cairngorm is alive & well + its open!

Cairngorm officially went open source a couple weeks ago, I started following the blog post by Alistair McLeod and Steven Webster when I heard the announcement.  A couple things are happening based on my readings, which I have linked at the bottom of the post (I …

Good at many things -- Master of none

As the title suggest, this is a topic that I have been thinking about a lot lately.  I tend to be a jack of all trades, but in my case being a jack of all trades means that I never have the time to really get good at one thing.  For me this has become a serious …

SearchMe.com - Next Generation Visual Search Engine

I think I am a little behind here on the technology curve, but someone at Adobe showed me this the other day.  I heard that this project was in work, but I never actually took the time to go check it out myself.  So here it is, SearchMe.com a visual way to search the …

iPhone + Flash ... Wont happen soon if at all

Anyone wondered why the iPhone doesnt have the flash player on it?  Something so simple, small and that has so many wide spread users?  It's simple... Apple doesnt want to have competing software on it's products.

Read this for yourself and please feel free to comment …

Integrating Coldfusion 8.01 with LiveCycle DS 2.6 Beta

I wanted to start playing with the new LiveCycle DS 2.6 …

Apple WWDC - live info

If you couldnt make the Apple WWDC this week in San Francisco you can get the latest scoop from the keynote address here:

http://www.macworld.com/article/133798/2008/06/wwdckeynote.html?lsrc=top_1

Enjoy!

The Flex Show Interview

I offered to talk about my experience at WebManiacs for the guys at the Flex Show (Jeff & John).  I actually haven't had time to listen to the cast, but I hope it was useful.  It's my first time on a podcast, even though Jeff and John are very laid back I was a bit …

Blogs & RSS in Plain English

The title speaks for itself, but why blog about this?  Especially to a group as tech savy as we are?  Well to share an experience I have been going though at work lately.  At the company I work for we have a pretty wide range of age groups, well actually we have a …

Skinning the Mango Blog Engine

Last week while I was at WebManiacs I decided I wanted to go with a different theme for my blog.  The GlossyBlue one was nice, but a lot of people are using it and I wanted to be a bit more unique.  I searched around and found a couple free WordPress themes and …

WebManiacs - Day 1 & 2 overview

Day 1:

Ben Forta kicked off the event with a couple charts on where CF is now, and where its going.  He emphasized more on LiveCycle integration, Flex Integration and BlazeDS.  There was some confusion as to what exactly the difference is between the LiveCycle DS ES & …

Here in DC

Here in DC for webmaniacs conference.  Looking forward to it.  I have been doing the whole site seeing thing for the past 3 days and am ready to get back to work :)  I am staying @ the Homewood Suites (Hilton) off of 15th/Mass.  If anyone is interested in getting a …

World of WarCrack Vid

Not sure if anyone knew that I play WoW, I used to play pretty heavily.  I had a high end guild that I helped run for awhile before the new x-pak and realized I was simply playing way to much, so I toned it down a bit.  Now I just do pvp stuff and level alts. 

Anyway, …

WebManiacs Agenda

I fly out this Friday to prepare for the webmaniacs conference next week.  My wife and I are doing a little site seeing prior to the conference over the weekend.  Should be a lot of fun and I am looking forward to getting away from work for a little bit and spending …