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Flash On The Beach - Interview with John Davey

Dan Thomas
July 15, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (3)

Flash on the Beach is fast approaching this year, tickets are selling out faster than ever and we're promised this is going to be the best yet! But don't just take my word for it, I managed to wrangle a few minutes from John Davey, organiser and head honcho of Flash on the Beach, to ask him a few questions about why this is one of the hottest events on the conference calendar.

Five Reasons Architecture Matters

Dan Thomas
June 19, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (4)

This post is an attempt to help justify the sometimes seemingly unappreciated efforts of good application architecture. Sometimes project managers/clients can question time spent on architecture and it can be hard to bring out appropriate explanations on the spot. This...

Real world RIA productivity tools

Dan Thomas
April 27, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (6)

Ever noticed how certain phrases seem to do the rounds in the tech industry? One such phrase I see a lot is "eat your own dog food" or more charmingly "dogfooding". I can relate this to a number of RIAs which I use day-to-day when developing, managing and promoting RIAs which I thought might be of use to share in no particular order (and with no affiliation).

Using Flash Remoting for Authentication to your AFCS/Facebook AIR Application
Russ Ferguson

If you have had an opportunity to look at the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service (AFCS) you could see that there is a huge opportunity to do interesting multi-user applications without needing to write all of the server side code. However... Continue Reading
Decorator Design Pattern
Sean Moore

Overview Purpose of this article The goal of this article is to help you gain a better understanding of the Decorator design pattern. The Decorator pattern is used to attach additional responsibilities to an object at run time dynamically. Decorators... Continue Reading
Flash to iPhone
Veronique Brossier

The proliferation of cellular phones has revolutionized the way we communicate with one another and is the foundation for a more mobile lifestyle. Adobe, a long time player in rich internet applications, wanted to, once again, be an active participant.... Continue Reading
AIR 2 Enhancements Complete Overview
Elad Elrom

Adobe just released public information about AIR 2.0 and added new capabilities that better tie with the operation systems which gives your application more control while increasing performance. The new version will be deployed on Flash player 10 using Flex... Continue Reading

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