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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Merapi
Saturday, September 13th, 2008 Posted in air, coding, flex, java | No Comments »Can Merapi help us get more interesting Adobe AIR projects in the future? Well I hope so, but first I have to get approved by the team to play around with the current Alpa version. I registered on their website ...
Flex 4 Gumbo: Hello World :)
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 Posted in air, coding, expression, flex | No Comments »Yesterday I downloaded an installed the latest stable build of Flex 4 “Gumbo”. After configuring and installing Flash Player 10, I was able to create my first Flex 4 app. It is only a Hello World kind of application but ...
Upgrading to Flex 3.1
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 Posted in air, coding, flex | No Comments »A couple of weeks ago Adobe release a new version of Flex (version 3.1). The new version contains several bug fixes, but also official support for Adobe AIR 1.1 which was also released a some time ago. Upgrading your Flex ...
ReadAir
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 Posted in air | No Comments »If you read a lot of blogs like I do, then you might be using Google Reader for this. Well I do anyway. I used a lot of RSS desktop clients in the past, but I still like Google Reader ...