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 ...
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 ...
Filthy Rich Flex Clients
Sunday, September 7th, 2008 Posted in coding, flex | No Comments »I found this presentation from Chet Haase, who is actually a Java developer, about Filthy Rich Flex Clients. He gave this presentation at Flex360. I really like the term filthy rich client and this is the definition from the book: "Filthy ...
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 ...
