Kevin Airgid, who is a regular speaker at Flash in the Can, has made his eBook Web Designers Success Guide available for free on his website. The book is sponsored by Flash in the Can now. Cool stuff and interesting and good to read!
UPDATE: The download link on his website apparently currently doesn’t work. Get [...]

Finally the Java open source movement got another push. Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s CEO, announced that the Java Platform (the standard edition to be more precise) would be open-sourced within the next 30 to 60 days. That’s very good, although it would probably not make a huge difference in regards to how people use Java right [...]

Sorry for the linking issues, should work now. It’s also linked from the right column of the starting page now.

My colleague and friend David Keutgens built a Flex 2 Effects Explorer application – following its “big brother” Flex 2 Style Explorer. Please note that I don’t have to do anything with it (not yet but just provide the information and the download (to give the tool a good headstart). We actually have [...]

Adobe released a pretty cool new product on Labs: Adobe Digitals Edition (beta). Pretty bluntly said: It’s an ebook reader – but it’s an ebook reader on steroids as it manages your ebooks, as it has a small footprint (2.5 mb download) and as it is a Rich Internet Application running in the Flash Player [...]

I was building a Flex 2 prototype for a customer just recently. Part of this prototype application were several forms to juggle with money amounts in NZ$ – a good opportunity to use a numeric stepper you might think.
Obviously, when dealing with money values in an application, you would like to have a currency symbol [...]

Two more (interesting) events:
The first one is about tools called Fusion Debug and Fusion Reactor. Both are very valuable tools for any CF developer and people operating their own server(s). Charlie Arehat is going to deliver a one day class “Fusion Debug/Fusion Reactor Fast Track” at the Adobe offices in Munich on November 3rd. Costs [...]