Looking back at 2008
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Posted in .net, air, coding, flex, iphone, java, silverlight | No Comments »It has been a very interesting year and now might be the time to look back. I did several projects and used a lot of different technologies and frameworks like Flex, AIR, Silverlight, Java, Spring, BlazeDS, ... Last year I ...
Flex and the Spring Framework
Monday, December 8th, 2008 Posted in blazeds, flex, java | No Comments »This week I stumbled upon two interesting initiatives that could help Flex and Actionscript become more mature as an enterprise programming language. Earlier this week Christophe Herreman announced on his blog that the Prana Framework has become an official Spring extension. ...
Adobe MAX: Gumbo, Flash Catalyst and Johnny
Friday, December 5th, 2008 Posted in air, blazeds, flex | 1 Comment »This week I was one of the lucky ones to attend the Adobe MAX event in Milan. I just blogged about the general sessions on the event already at the Nascom blog. So I won't repeat too much what I ...
Devoxx 2008
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 Posted in air, flex, java | No Comments »Nascom has been an Adobe partner for some time now. And because of this partnership we were asked to join them at their booth on Devoxx (formerly Javapolis), the java community conference. I will be there giving a demo of ...
Going to MAX next week
Monday, November 24th, 2008 Posted in air, flex | 1 Comment »Last year I was the lucky one who could represent Nascom at Adobe MAX Europe in Barcelona. This year I don't have to go alone and I will be accompanied by my colleagues Sakri, Rien and Michael. Last year if ...
Announcements on Adobe MAX
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 Posted in .net, flex | 1 Comment »I just read a tweet from Serge Jespers from Adobe MAX in San Francisco. It said "Flex development in Visual Studio and AMF for .NET". Some time ago I blogged about Silverlight development in Eclipse, and now this very interesting ...
How to design a desktop app for your web app & space robots
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 Posted in air | No Comments »I just installed AlertThingy, which is a very cool Adobe AIR application that connects to different services like FriendFeed, Flickr and Twitter. The company who build it is howard/baines and just found this very good presentation from Jeremy Baines. It ...
eclipse4SL
Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in .net, coding, silverlight | 1 Comment »Silverlight development on Mac or Linux? Up to now this is not possible, but there is good news for those who want to start developing Silverlight applications and are currently working on a Mac. I just read an interesting blog post ...
Silverlight newsflash
Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Posted in .net, coding, expression, silverlight | No Comments »Well, I have to admit that I haven't been busy with Silverlight lately. I try to follow up on the blogs and here is a list of blogs about Silverlight 2 Release Candidate: Scott Guthrie: Silverlight 2 Release Candidate Now Available Mike ...
Loading remote swf files in AIR
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 Posted in air, coding, flex | 4 Comments »I am doing some research for a large AIR application that has to dynamically load swf files (these can be Flex modules, but also regular Flash movies). This is apparently not that easy to accomplish, because it doesn't work the ...