Archive for December, 2008

Filed Under (AIR, Flex, InfoQ.com, Technology) by jonr on December-31-2008

In 2007, I became an editor for InfoQ.com.  InfoQ.com is an enterprise software development community, with news, articles, video interviews, and a yearly conference.  As an editor, I write weekly news items and contribute the occasional article or video interview.

Today we posted a list of the Top Posts of 2008.  I am excited to have a few items on the list.  I had the number one item in the architecture community, a news post titled “James Gosling on Adobe Flash / Flex / AIR.“  In the Java community, I posted 2 of the top 5!  Both of these posts are original works that I collaborated on with James Ward (Top 10 Adobe Flex Misconceptions & Top 10 Mistakes when building Flex Applications).

Click through and check out all the exciting 2008 news!

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Filed Under (Flex, RIA, Technology) by jonr on December-23-2008

If you are new to Flex, or just curious about it, you need to check out James Ward (my Drunk On Software partner) and Bruce Eckel’s book, First Steps in Flex.

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Filed Under (General, Technology) by jonr on December-23-2008

I spent Friday afternoon telling my friend Wes that I have never lost a hard drive that wasn’t in a Raid 5 / NAS… Thus, my Mac hard drive failed Saturday afternoon.  Amazing?!?!

Anyhow, I couldn’t be more impressed with Apple.  I put in a support request online and was called with in seconds of hitting the submit button.  I was unable to resolve it on the phone, but was able to schedule and appointment for 2 hours later at the Cherry Creek Mac store.  Luckily for me, Stu has recently had a hard drive die on him.  So, I had purchased my Time Capsule and been regularly backing up to it.  They quickly determined that the drive was dead and put in a new one.  After only a few hours at home, I was able to restore from the Time Capsule and I am back up and running with all of my files intact…. After years of owning PC’s, I couldn’t be more impressed.

Even better, was seeing Peter Forsberg in the Mac store while I was waiting.  I cannot imagine losing a hard driving ending up better…………

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Filed Under (AIR, Drunk On Software, Flex, Java, RIA, Software Development) by jonr on December-19-2008

This week we posted a video with Stephan Janssen.  Stephan is a great guy and an important voice in the Java and Flex communities. Check out the video here.

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Filed Under (AIR, Drunk On Software, Flex, Software Development) by jonr on December-8-2008

James and I finally posted the next video in our Drunk on Software series.  In this episode we talk with Adobe System’s Chet Haase about a bit of everything.  Enjoy!

http://www.drunkonsoftware.com/2008/12/08/episode-4-when-i-am-king/

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