UI and the Rest

Well, most people are watching football but I decided to mess around with the Ribbit Flex SDK today.  Wow, is it easy and fun.  I have uploaded a .zip of an Air application I created that allows you to make phone calls and send text messages via the Ribbit api.  Please feel free to download it and try it out.  Although you will need to sign up for your own Ribbit developer account.

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Posted: 27th November 2008

The following book review for Manning Press’s Air in Action was submitted by Barry Knapp of Railinc.

Adobe Air In Action provides a good overview of the most frequently required ActionScript API with many easy to follow examples.  There is a heavy emphasis toward teaching the readers through specific AIR example that will enable them to quickly create a running AIR application.  This book is not geared for those looking for an in-depth discussion of AIR application design, best practices and frame working. (more…)

Posted: 2nd September 2008

WOW! That is all I can say, for now.

Okay, I have just recovered from two days at No Fluff Just Stuff. The NFJS conf is a very hardcore Java based conference, I went for the Groovy. Groovy is the shiznit when it comes to server side languages and it definitely gives people a free and easy way to communicate with the heinous beast known as Java. Heinous in the fact that it takes forever to setup and complains about every little thing.

Based on this conference I can tell you first hand that Java people are far different than UI or Web people. Java people are soooooooooooooooooooooo damn serious about everything, believe me they don’t get the ‘pull my finger’ gag. (more…)

Posted: 21st June 2008