<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Flex @ jeff.mxdj.com</title><link>http://jeff.mxdj.com/</link><description>(Flex) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 jeff.mxdj.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:42:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Flex @ jeff.mxdj.com</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/portlet/163/featured-blog-graphic-145.gif</url><link>http://jeff.mxdj.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Adobe Flex 3 Training from the Source, now available</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jeff.mxdj.com/adobe_flex_3_training_from_the_source_now_available.htm</guid><link>http://jeff.mxdj.com/adobe_flex_3_training_from_the_source_now_available.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jeff.mxdj.com/console/comments/popup/?f=adobe%5Fflex%5F3%5Ftraining%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5Fsource%5Fnow%5Favailable</comments><dc:creator>Jeff Tapper</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Our Adobe Flex 3 Training From the Source book has been released]]></description><category>books</category><category>adobe</category><category>flex3</category><category>flex</category><category>ria</category></item><item><title>Lots and Lots of Speaking Engagements Coming Up</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jeff.mxdj.com/2008_first_half_speaking.htm</guid><link>http://jeff.mxdj.com/2008_first_half_speaking.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:01:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jeff.mxdj.com/console/comments/popup/?f=2008%5Ffirst%5Fhalf%5Fspeaking</comments><dc:creator>Jeff Tapper</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[my speaaking engagements for the first half of the year]]></description><category>actionscript3</category><category>adobe</category><category>as3</category><category>books</category><category>cfunited</category><category>flash</category><category>flash9</category><category>flex</category><category>flex3</category><category>fp9</category><category>ria</category><category>speaking</category><category>conferences</category></item><item><title>Flex 3 Training From the Source - NOW AVAILABLE on rough cuts</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jeff.mxdj.com/flex_3_training_from_the_source__now_available_on_rough_cut.htm</guid><link>http://jeff.mxdj.com/flex_3_training_from_the_source__now_available_on_rough_cut.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:30:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jeff.mxdj.com/console/comments/popup/?f=flex%5F3%5Ftraining%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5Fsource%5F%5Fnow%5Favailable%5Fon%5Frough%5Fcut</comments><dc:creator>Jeff Tapper</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I just heard from our editor&#39;s that about a 1/3 of the content for our upcoming &quot;Flex 3 Training from the Source&quot; 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The annual JavaOne conference is underway, and there seems to be quite a bit of buzz surrounding the upcoming annoucement of the JavaFX]]></description><category>javafx</category><category>adobe</category><category>flash</category><category>flex</category><category>flex2</category><category>ria</category><category>silverlight</category><category>desktop</category><category>mobile</category></item><item><title>CFUnited Scheduler released</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jeff.mxdj.com/cfunited_scheduler_released.htm</guid><link>http://jeff.mxdj.com/cfunited_scheduler_released.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 16:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jeff.mxdj.com/console/comments/popup/?f=cfunited%5Fscheduler%5Freleased</comments><dc:creator>Jeff Tapper</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[While the blog was down last week, the CFUnited Scheduler was launched.&nbsp; This is a cool little AJAX app, which lets you figure out which sessions you want to attend.&nbsp; You can browse the sessions by time, by presenter, or by track.&nbsp; If]]></description><category>adobe</category><category>cfunited</category><category>coldfusion</category><category>flex2</category><category>scorpio</category><category>ajax</category><category>cfmx7</category><category>ria</category></item><item><title>Open Source Flex 3 SDK</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jeff.mxdj.com/open_source_flex_3_sdk.htm</guid><link>http://jeff.mxdj.com/open_source_flex_3_sdk.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 16:53:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jeff.mxdj.com/console/comments/popup/?f=open%5Fsource%5Fflex%5F3%5Fsdk</comments><dc:creator>Jeff Tapper</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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.&nbsp; The actual timeline for the release looks like this:Summer 2007 - Daily b]]></description><category>actionscript3</category><category>adobe</category><category>apollo</category><category>as3</category><category>fes</category><category>flex</category><category>flex2</category><category>flex3</category><category>free</category><category>ria</category><category>silverlight</category></item><item><title>Sorry for the outage, seems there was a DNS issue</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jeff.mxdj.com/sorry_for_the_outage_seems_there_was_a_dns_issue.htm</guid><link>http://jeff.mxdj.com/sorry_for_the_outage_seems_there_was_a_dns_issue.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jeff.mxdj.com/console/comments/popup/?f=sorry%5Ffor%5Fthe%5Foutage%5Fseems%5Fthere%5Fwas%5Fa%5Fdns%5Fissue</comments><dc:creator>Jeff Tapper</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For reasons beyond my control, this blog has been unavailable for the past two weeks.&nbsp; As I spent time with the hosts tech support, it became clear the issue was a bad DNS entry, which has now been corrected.&nbsp; Of course, this coincides with]]></description></item><item><title>Public Alpha of Apollo now available on Adobe Labs</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jeff.mxdj.com/public_alpha_of_apollo_now_available_on_adobe_labs.htm</guid><link>http://jeff.mxdj.com/public_alpha_of_apollo_now_available_on_adobe_labs.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:40:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jeff.mxdj.com/console/comments/popup/?f=public%5Falpha%5Fof%5Fapollo%5Fnow%5Favailable%5Fon%5Fadobe%5Flabs</comments><dc:creator>Jeff Tapper</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Since it was mentioned and demo&#39;d at the MAX conference in Las Vegas last year, I&#39;ve been incredibly excited about the upcoming Apollo product from Adobe.&nbsp; Apollo promises to allow web developers to build real desktop applications, using]]></description><category>flex</category><category>apollo</category><category>ajax</category></item><item><title>Flex 2 Training from the source Errata</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jeff.mxdj.com/flex2tfseratta.htm</guid><link>http://jeff.mxdj.com/flex2tfseratta.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jeff.mxdj.com/console/comments/popup/?f=flex2tfseratta</comments><dc:creator>Jeff Tapper</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><category>books</category><category>flex</category></item><item><title>Max 2007 dates and locations announced</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jeff.mxdj.com/max_2007_dates_and_locations_announced.htm</guid><link>http://jeff.mxdj.com/max_2007_dates_and_locations_announced.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jeff.mxdj.com/console/comments/popup/?f=max%5F2007%5Fdates%5Fand%5Flocations%5Fannounced</comments><dc:creator>Jeff Tapper</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[According to Matt Chotin's blog, the Max 07 dates and locations are as follows:

    
        
            North America
            9/30/07-10/3/07
            McCormick Place West, Chicago
        
        
            Europe]]></description><category>coldfusion</category><category>flash</category><category>flex</category></item><item><title>Flex 2 Training From the Source sample chapters available on Adobe&apos;s DevNet Site</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jeff.mxdj.com/flex_2_training_from_the_source_sample_chapters_available_on.htm</guid><link>http://jeff.mxdj.com/flex_2_training_from_the_source_sample_chapters_available_on.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jeff.mxdj.com/console/comments/popup/?f=flex%5F2%5Ftraining%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5Fsource%5Fsample%5Fchapters%5Favailable%5Fon</comments><dc:creator>Jeff Tapper</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>CFUnited 07</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jeff.mxdj.com/cfunited_07.htm</guid><link>http://jeff.mxdj.com/cfunited_07.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jeff.mxdj.com/console/comments/popup/?f=cfunited%5F07</comments><dc:creator>Jeff Tapper</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I've just been asked to present at CFUNited 07.  This year, my topic will be "Real world solutions: Data Push using FDS and CF"]]></description><category>coldfusion</category><category>flex</category></item><item><title>Now Available - Flex Builder 2.0.1</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jeff.mxdj.com/now_available__flex_builder_201.htm</guid><link>http://jeff.mxdj.com/now_available__flex_builder_201.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:51:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jeff.mxdj.com/console/comments/popup/?f=now%5Favailable%5F%5Fflex%5Fbuilder%5F201</comments><dc:creator>Jeff Tapper</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Flex Builder 2.0.1 has now been released.&nbsp;&nbsp; In addition to a myraid of bug fixes, there are a suprising number of new features available in this release, including&nbsp; Macintosh support, support for runtime CSS (in the previous version, C]]></description><category>flash</category><category>flex</category></item><item><title>Extended DateField</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://jeff.mxdj.com/extended_datefield.htm</guid><link>http://jeff.mxdj.com/extended_datefield.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:41:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://jeff.mxdj.com/console/comments/popup/?f=extended%5Fdatefield</comments><dc:creator>Jeff Tapper</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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]]></description><category>flex</category></item></channel></rss>