Monthly Archives: February 2008

Great Day!!!

I am hanging out at Adobe Engage and my hockey team just brought back Peter Forsberg!!! Sweet!
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Flex 3 & AIR 1.0 are shipping!

Congrats Adobe on the production releases! The new Open Source BlazeDS project and Flex Builder 3 are also a part of this release. Check out the InfoQ.com write-up that Scott Delap posted tonight: http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/02/air-flex-release.
It sounds that there are a number of cool customer applications shipping with this release.
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Flex & Java

I just got done reading an interesting post by Gerard Mason on Flex & Java developers. He points to my post last year on the RIA Landscape and Flex. Near the end he states he surprised at the black lash on “in-browser” Java technologies:
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Granite Data Services for Flex

I just posted an interview with Granite Data Service founder Franck Wolff. You can check it out on InfoQ.com at: http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/02/granite-data-services.

A few interesting items:
- I have used GDS a bit, but I didn’t realize that there Hibernate support allow for using lazying loading in the Flex clients. This sounds very powerful and I am excited [...] Continue reading

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