Next week I'm off to London to speak at CFUnited Europe, and the following week, I'll be speaking at AJAX World East. In both places, I'll be speaking about the joy that is Flex 3 in all its forms. The CFUnited talk is more fo
I've been a bit slow in getting this announcement out, as I see several other bloggers have already posted on this, but the rumors are true. Tapper, Nimer and Associates. Inc. has teamed up with Digital Primates Inc.
I just heard from our editor's that about a 1/3 of the content for our upcoming "Flex 3 Training from the Source" book is now available in Rough Cuts form on Safari from Peach Pit. Obviously, as the Flex 3 product hasnt been relea
Ok, I know i promised to have these online earlier, but, regardless of the timing, here they are now. You can download the hands on files from my "Deploying HMTL/JavaScript Applications to the Desktop with AIR" here: air_experie
I've been asked to speak at the first ever CFUnited Europe this year. CFUnited, which has been running each year in the Washington DC area (earlier under the name CFUN) for the past 9 years, is branching out, and hosting the conference in E
I missed it yesterday, when it was announced, but Adobe has now announced support for H.264 (also know as MPEG4) in an upcoming version of the flash player. H.264 is the same standard which is used by BluRay and HD-DVD -- the ability to have th
Thanks to all those who attended my Flex for ColdFusion Developer session at CFUnited. As promised, here are the sample files that i used in the session.
I recently built a hands-on presentation for the FlexManiacs conference, and thought it would be fun to have the class build a little apollo based mp3 player, which reads in the mp3 files from an iTunes libary.xml file, which they can then play, paus
As promised, here are the starting files from my "FlexManiacs 2007 - Getting Started with Apollo" session. Thanks for attending my session, I hope you enjoyed it and the FlexManiacs Conference.
Today, Adobe has released 3 new public beta's on Adobe Labs: The Adobe Integrated Runtime (formerly known as Apollo) beta, the Flex 3 Beta, and the Flash Player Updater were all publicly released on Labs today. I've been rec
At 1am, on tuesday May 15th, Kagan Scott Tapper, our 2nd child and first son, was born. He was born weighing 7lbs 12oz, and measuring 19.75" in length. Mom and baby are home and healthy, and all are well but all a bit tired.
It seems Sun is interested in re-gaining some of the market share it one had in the Rich Application space. The annual JavaOne conference is underway, and there seems to be quite a bit of buzz surrounding the upcoming annoucement of the JavaFX
While the blog was down last week, the CFUnited Scheduler was launched. This is a cool little AJAX app, which lets you figure out which sessions you want to attend. You can browse the sessions by time, by presenter, or by track. If
At midnight, Thursday April 26th at Midnight, Adobe officially announced that the Flex 3 SDK, will be released as an open source project under the Mozilla Public License. The actual timeline for the release looks like this:Summer 2007 - Daily b
For reasons beyond my control, this blog has been unavailable for the past two weeks. As I spent time with the hosts tech support, it became clear the issue was a bad DNS entry, which has now been corrected. Of course, this coincides with
Since it was mentioned and demo'd at the MAX conference in Las Vegas last year, I've been incredibly excited about the upcoming Apollo product from Adobe. Apollo promises to allow web developers to build real desktop applications, using
After 2+ years of the same layout here, I'm being dragged kicking and screaming into a new design. The folks at blog city (who ultimately host this blog), have upgraded their software.
While the official errata site from PeachPit press is not yet available, the authors have put together one of our own here. Feel free to contact us with any additional problems you find in the book, and we will post them to the site.
In browsing the latest Developer Center Update email, I noticed that they have chosen to include 4 chapters from our Flex Book on their site. It looks like they have put the pdf's and files for Chapters 11 (DataGrids), 16 (Styles an
In work for a particular client, we noticed an odd little bug with the latest Flash Player (9.0.28). It seems that context menus (the items which appear when you right click) dont work when the right click is on an embeded image. Take a l
Flex Builder 2.0.1 has now been released. In addition to a myraid of bug fixes, there are a suprising number of new features available in this release, including Macintosh support, support for runtime CSS (in the previous version, C
Someone was asking on the FlexCoders list today about having a date field, where clicking into the TextInput side allowed the user to type in a date, but still allowing them to click the calendar icon to open the DateChooser. While no component nat
One of my clients recently needed a Tree component for their site navigation, which needed a transparent background (so you could see an image behind it), and had to run in FP7. I was most bummed about the FP7 part, as it meant i couldnt use fl
Its really convenient for anyone coming from an HTML background that we can now provide colors to Flex using html standard syntax for hexidecimal number. I've recently been working with SVG and Flex, and found that i needed to convert between
I've just been told that the initial 60 books that they had at the Adobe Max store are all sold out. I've also been told another 40 should be here tomorrow morning. It seems we have a bit more demand than was planned for by the powers tha
