Flex

Edge of the Web conference, Perth 2008

by kai 17/07/2008

Awesome, I’ll be traveling over to Perth in November to attend the Edge of the Web conference. I’m going to do a regular conference session during the main conference (Nov 6) and will offer a 1/2 day workshop on the day after the main conference (Nov 7). The topic of the 1/2 day workshop on […]

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Web on the Piste

by kai 16/07/2008

Web of the Piste 2008 is not to far away – August 20 and 21, 2008. For all those of you not knowing the conference from last year, it’s a RIA technology event down in Queenstown, New Zealand. Diane and I went down there last year and we had a lot of fun staying in […]

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Flash-based game suite on Facebook

by kai 15/07/2008

Today I’ve met with Dan Milward for lunch. Dan owns a company here in Wellington (Instinct) that’s pretty deep in developing a game creation engine for Flash and particularly Flash Lite games. I’m pretty impressed, it’s a very nice tool and there’s an online version of it available on Facebook. I personally can see a […]

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Flex User Group in Berlin: First meeting

by kai 15/07/2008

I wanted to blog this for quite a while but didn’t get to it: There’s a new Flex User Group in Berlin, Germany. I’d like to mention it here for three reasons – I’ve met Bettina Schulz, who has founded the group, just recently at the webinale conference in Karlsruhe, Germany and encouraged her to […]

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Public Flex 3 class in Wellington, NZ

by kai 21/04/2008

My company (Ventego Creative) is running a Flex 3 training class later in May in Wellington, NZ. You might ask yourself what’s so special about it? Well, it doesn’t happen too often that we’re doing this in New Zealand, so I thought it’s worth being mentioned. We’re offering “Flex 3: Developing Rich Client Applications” which […]

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AIR and FB3 for Linux Updates

by kai 01/04/2008

Adobe has released a new build (alpha3) of Flex Builder for Linux just recently. Also – there’s a public alpha of Adobe AIR for Linux now, awesome.

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“Active content” developers – watch out

by kai 22/11/2007

Adobe has updated their active content developer centre (which was basically introduced in preparation of the MSFT/IE patent issue with Eolas). There are a few changes and alterations how active content is going to be interpreted in future IE releases, so make sure you have a read.

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The new AIR Logo…

by kai 15/11/2007

…has been shown by Mike Chambers. I think it’s very stylish and cool and it conveys the message behind AIR. I love it, well done guys!

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Unit testing with Flex

by kai 03/11/2007

I’m currently working through my inbox and find all those interesting stuff I’ve thought “I need to blog about that”…:) Here’s another one: Prayank has presented on unit testing with Flex and FlexUnit. It’s already a while ago but still available, have a look! Sourcecode download is here.

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Book review: O’Reilly short cuts – Introduction to Flex 2

by kai 03/11/2007

O’Reilly has a series of so called “Short Cuts”, PDF e-books that introduce new technologies or major updates of those in a brief, compact way. Introduction to Flex 2.0 by Roger Braunstein is such a “Short Cuts” title and comprises 88 pages full of valuable information for the upcoming Flex developer 🙂 The author bascially […]

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