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Flex At Dreamforce 2009

This week I’m in San Francisco at Dreamforce – Salesforce.com’s yearly conference. It’s amazing to walk around the expo hall and see how much Flex is being used in enterprise products and services. Like last year I’ve been recording some videos of some of the great enterprise Flex apps here. Also Greg [...] (translate)

My Upcoming Flex Presentations: Dallas SOA UG, TexFlex, Flex Camp Wall Street, Web 2.0, and Dreamforce

Here are some upcoming Flex presentations I’ll be giving: Thursday November 12 in Dallas – Java and Flex Friday November 13 in Plano, TX – Flex and the Cloud @ TexFlex09 Monday November 16 at Flex Camp Wall Street (New York) – Flex Stuff I’m Excited About Monday November 16 at the Web 2.0 Expo (New York) – Connecting [...] (translate)

How Bad Crossdomain Policies Expose Protected Data to Malicious Applications

The web’s success has been partially due to the sandbox it provides users. Users do not generally have to entirely trust every website they visit because malicious web sites should be sandboxed from doing the user harm. One way that web sites are sandboxed is through a same-origin policy. By default any [...] (translate)

Drunk on Software at Adobe MAX 2009

Here’s a special episode of Drunk on Software from Adobe MAX 2009. Enjoy!! (translate)

My Video from MAX 2009 – Introduction to BlazeDS and LCDS

Here is the video of my session from MAX 2009 – Introduction to BlazeDS and LCDS. In this session I walk through the basics of connecting Flex applications to BlazeDS and LCDS. Let me know what you think! (translate)

Drunk on Software – Java Posse, MAX 2009, and Simeon Bateman

We’ve recently posted three great episodes of Drunk on Software – the video podcast for those who like booze and bits. So grab your favorite adult beverage (if you are of legal age), sit back, and enjoy getting Drunk on Software! Episode 17: Half of the Java Posse Episode 18: MAX 2009 Deep Thoughts Episode 19: Simeon [...] (translate)

Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Desktop Edition Review

Today Ubuntu released Karmic Koala 9.10 Desktop Edition. Like Snow Leopard and Windows 7, I find this release underwhelming. It seems that all three major operating systems are running out of room for innovation and the focus has now shifted to core improvements. But the lack of anything really new and exciting [...] (translate)

Upcoming Flex and Java Presentations in Zurich and Dallas

Here are a few upcoming Flex and Java presentations I’ll be giving: Thursday October 29 in Zurich – RIAs with Java, Spring, Hibernate, BlazeDS, and Flex Thursday Nov 12 in Dallas – Java and Flex Friday November 13 in Plano, TX – Flex and the Cloud @ TexFlex09 I hope to see you there! (translate)

Adobe and Salesforce.com Unite RIA and The Cloud

The two major trends transforming software right now are Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and Cloud Computing / Software as a Service (SaaS or PaaS). These trends are driven by two needs: Full client capabilities which allow software to perform optimally and increase usability Easy deployment which allows developers to focus on business needs instead of building [...] (translate)

Text to Speech in Flex

Back in August at the Flex Jam in Orlando one of the projects we worked on was Text to Speech in Flex. We didn’t finish the project at the Jam so I wanted to post the final version here. Check it out: (source code) I used the iSpeech.org API to convert the text to speech. [...] (translate)

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