Recommend - "Top 10 Mistakes when building Flex Apps"

I was browsing around the Adobe Dev Net sites this afternoon during lunch and read this article "Top 10 Mistakes when Building Flex Applications" by James Ward & Jon Rose I agree with about 90% of what they were talking about.  Except for #5) "Trying to hire experienced …

blip.tv Plugin for Mango Blog

I created a new Mango plugin, now you can add blip.tv videos easily using the Mango Post tool in the admin by adding a simple tag [bliptv:postId].
All you need to do is pass in the post ID when creating a new post in
Mango and the video will display in the position of …

PHEV - Plugin Hybrid Electric Vehicles

I am considering converting my 2007 Prius to PHEV.  The cost is still a bit high, I have seen numbers of $6k+ depending on the batteries you use.  I hope that data is old and the kits are cheaper now.  Looks like Toyota and Ford have created a couple prototypes and …

WebOrb - Universal Connectivity for RIA's - and it's FREE

I know the title sounds like I am a sales guy for Midnight Coders, but I was pretty impressed with what I saw and felt the need to share this.

I was at a Boeing Flex User Group meeting yesterday that is hosted by Mike Kollen and a couple folks at Boeing.  Mark Piller …

Flex Frameworks - get your digest

I was browsing through my daily digest this morning and found two things that I thought are worth listening to.  There are two new podcast on Flex Frameworks, one is from The Flex Show w/ Thomas Burleson talking about Cairngorm and Universal Minds Cairngorm …

Flex/AIR Developer Rates -- check this out

So I did some research this weekend on the going rates for Flex/AIR Developers and I found this through a couple different blogs (Mazharharhasan & SeanTheFlashGuy).  HotGigs shows the average billable rate @ $100 bucks an hour. 

So I am a simple mid-west guy living in a …

Adobe Reorg Announced

Interesting read from Flex Developers Journal, I was able to find a related Adobe press release to back it up, here is the link to the article "Adobe Reorgs: Mandels and Ramadan Gone, Lynch in Charge of the Whole Magilla". 

The move from a strategic stand point makes …

Digital Camera & Aperature vs. Lightroom - seeking advice

I am in the market to buy a digital camera to support my new photography hobby.  I currently own a very old Canon AE-1 Program that I started to use to learn photography.  I feel I could learn faster with a digital camera because I can see my pictures a bit quicker …

Flex Builder 3 and the VSS Plugin

Quick note -- hopefully it will save some of you some time.  The VSS Plugin on sourceforge.net does not work in the standalone FB3 IDE.  It only works in Eclipse.  So if you want to use it for your Flex projects, make sure you use the Flex 3 Eclipse Plugin.  Once you do …

Flex Builder 3 and Charting w/ Flex 2 SDK

I ran into a small problem today with Flex Builder 3 / Flex 3 Eclipse Plugin.  I have a project that is currently using the Flex 2 SDK when its compiled I don't have a lot of time on this project and we are not making it compatiable with Flex 3 (just yet). 

The problem …