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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Today at Web Maniacs I gave a fairly brief, short notice talk on Merapi. I had a few slides and presented a couple examples. The coolest example by far is something that Doug McCune helped me throw together. This example involves using a physics engine for Flex called Foam and Merapi to invoke the Java/C [...]
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When I originally submitted two topics for Web Maniacs a few months ago I figured I might end up presenting one of them. Now I’m doing four. In order of appearance: 9a, Wed: Advanced Skinning and Component Development This session will actually be more about skinning and less about component development. After presenting this topic [...]
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I’ve been getting a lot of e-mails from people regarding Merapi lately. So, I thought it’d be a good idea to put together a “Hello World” screen cast. In the video below you’ll see a very simple use case of the framework: An AIR application that connects to Merapi on startup and receives a String [...]
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If you’re at 360|Flex in Atlanta this week, we’ll be doing a panel discussion of a bunch of different Flex Open Source projects in the hands on room tomorrow at 10am. I’ll be there talking a bit about Merapi, there’ll be folks representing other projects such as, Degrafa, OpenFlux, Flex Lib, the MDI windowing project.. [...]
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I’ll have Merapi t-shirts and stickers on hand at 360|Flex. There’s a limited supply of the shirts, but if you come to my talk you’ll have a better chance of vying for one. Thanks to Andrew Powelll for receiving the shirts at his house in GA (and modeling for the photo). Also, I need to [...]
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Merapi is a new project that is a framework for connecting AIR to java at the desktop. It will be built as freeware until the team is happy with the stability. We will then move it to Google Code and make the project open source. There will be more to come but for now I [...]
Continue readingThis post is in response to the recent battle of words ignited by a post from Mike Chambers called CommandProxy : .NET / AIR Integration Proof of Concept. Soon after Scott Barnes posted a response to Mike’s post called Adobe AIR + .NET Proxy – Concerns arise and a subsequent post RE: Adobe AIR + [...]
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There has been a bit of buzz around Artemis lately, so I thought I’d do a quick update on what up for Artemis. First off, my friend Louie Penaflor at Tapper Nimer and Associates Digital Primates has been doing some cool stuff with Artemis and scanners. Check out his recent blog on it: Going beyond [...]
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