Loyal Moses

This was the result of a little playing with XMLSocket along with PHP to create a multi-client socket server for Flex to interact with.

Initially I only wanted to test the simplicity of Flex’s ability to make simple socket connections and pass data, however one can easily see how much fun you could have here. *scratches [...]

Yup, I be a winner again.
@umAndy (Andy Powell) dropped a tweet a few weeks ago with my name selected as the winner for a free ticket to Flash Camp Atlanta 2009.
Flash Camp Atlanta is a one day event focusing on the Flash platform, Flex and Actionscript. The camp provides tracks for both beginners and experienced [...]

For me, an average day of development routinely includes as many as a half-a-dozen languages and a good number of development environments.
Several times within the last week or so I’ve been asked what I use for the majority of my development and if I have any secret tips on applications that aid in my efforts [...]

Last week, Ed Sullivan of Adobe picked a few names from his Twitter followers to receive a little prize… and as it turns out I am not a loser!
My particular prize showed up this morning via FedEx.
The Pocket Guide - “Getting Started with Flex 3″ by Jack D Herrington & Emily Kim
Pocket guide may be [...]

Half empty. Time for a refill!
Within the last 10 days or so, I’ve been able to wrap up several small Adobe Flex and AIR projects and now have some availability for some interesting and / or unique opportunities. Let’s hear em’.
Regarding the Flex / AIR sector in general; I am still absolutely amazed at the [...]

Raise your hand if you were as frustrated as I when it came to Flex 3 and state management.
Simple or basic application states were of no real concern, but as states grew and became more and more complicated, managing and manipulating these states became a tedious and even just plain silly task.
Flex 4 (”Gumbo”) brings [...]

This evening, Adobe made available public beta’s of Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst.
Pretty exciting news no doubt, and as you can see I have already allocated my portion of Adobe Labs bandwidth for the next half-hour.

Now I need to find some time in my already overloaded schedule to do some playing work with the new [...]

I can’t imagine I am alone on this one, but I absolutely cannot stand the Eclipse icon.
Whenever possible, that horrific purple monstrosity sitting in my OS X dock gets kicked to the curb and replaced by the much more handsome Flex Builder icon. Soon it will be replaced with the Flash Builder icon.
For those who [...]

For those who have not yet heard the news, Flash Builder is in fact the new name for what would have been Flex Builder 4 (”Gumbo”). For those of you who were already aware of this name change, this is a little of my opinion on the matter.
This is not surprisingly quite a hot topic [...]

For quite a while now I have bounced back and forth between Adobe’s Flex Builder IDE and Eclipse with the Flex Builder plugin.
The reason for me being so indecisive was that the Flex Builder plugin would never work correctly out-of-the-box with the latest release of Eclipse. There were always hacks out there of some type [...]