By: Burton Podczerwinski Recently, the Chicago Flex users group raffled off two tickets to the 360|Flex conference. I was lucky enough to be one of the winners! The conference will be held in Washington DC this year, from September 19th – 22nd. This year Roundarch will be one of the sponsors alongside Adobe, O’Reilly and [...]
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I was proud to announce with Andrew Powell today at 360 Flex | Indy, that Merapi is now officially open source. We’ve released the first public beta on Google Code as well as opened a Google Group. There is also a repo for Merapi examples. Here are the important links: http://merapi.googlecode.com/ http://merapi-examples.googlecode.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/merapi-project To find [...]
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It has been far too long since I’ve blogged about Merapi, so I thought I would share what’s up with the project. First off, the next release has been coming soon for far too long. That is my responsibility and I apologize to everyone that’s been waiting on the new build. However, there is good [...]
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Monday, November 17th marks the official start to this year’s Adobe MAX conference. I wanted to give a quick update on where I’ll be and what I’ll be up to at MAX. So, here it is. First of all, at MAX you can follow me on Twitter or BrightKite my handle is “adamflater” on both. [...]
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To keep in the open tradition of 360 | Flex I’m posting my survey feedback once again. The Merapi session at 360 Flex | San Jose was really fun and was happy to share the stage with my friend Jordan Synder. There was one very constructive comment about our examples. The examples that I showed [...]
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The first issue of Flex Authority is out! I was lucky enough to attend 360 Flex in San Jose last week and grabbed a pre-release copy there. In addition, Dave Meeker and I were lucky enough to be interviewed by Leif Wells. Leif was really great about coordinating this interview on Merapi. Thanks for your [...]
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Coming at you from sunny San Jose, California at the eBay campus… Yesterday at 360 Flex I presented a session on Merapi and moderated a panel discussion on open source technology. At the Merapi session we discussed the focus of the project and show a lot of sample applications. Including a few demos that showed [...]
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As many of you know I’ve been co-writing a series on the O’Reilly site www.insideria.com with my friend Scott Sheridan called Learning Flex from Scratch. A big thanks to Rich Tretola for having us on as a part of Inside RIA. When we started the series Scott had no experience as a programmer. His academic background is in [...]
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Apart from the Learning Flex From Scratch series I’ll be doing some guest blogging on my own from time-to-time. My first post is on 360|Flex San Jose. Thanks to Rich for making me a two time Inside RIA guest blogger.
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I thought I’d mirror Tom and John’s style of being transparent about 360|Flex and share the survey results of my talk. Thanks to everyone that gave feedback. I’ll be giving a 2.0 version of this talk at Flex Maniacs in May and feedback from attendees is really helpful to know what to polish. If you [...]
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