Monthly Archives: November 2008

In Thomas Friedman’s latest article, he suggest we have Steve Jobs run the car companies for a year, as part of a bail out deal.  After living in an IT industry built on inovation for the last decade, it is hard to understand how our automakers have failed so clearly in this respect.  And, it [...] Continue reading →

Well, this seems like a stupid statement, but for me, “Flex is Java!”  We have heard a lot the last year about Java the platform versus Java the programming language, with the push to add scripting languages to the JVM and add extensions beyond the core programming language.
When you look at Flex you find that [...] Continue reading →

I found a few extra minutes and decided to read through an article I wrote last summer titled, From Java to Flex.  I hope that isn’t as narcissistic as it sounds, but I like to continue to learn and evolve and I thought I would see how much I still agree with myself.
Well, I made [...] Continue reading →

I was talking with a Ryan Knight, a co-worker at Gorilla Logic, about our general impression of Flex.  We are both developing significant functionality with Flex these days, and we quickly agreed that are some real pain points.  I boil most of these down to immaturities, and do expect Flex to overcome most of these [...] Continue reading →

A few weeks ago my co-workers and myself spent a few hellish (but fun) days with significant performance issues on the eve of our first release of a Flex application we are building for a Gorilla Logic client.  First off, the majority of the issues were unrelated to Flex, but architectural choices outside of the [...] Continue reading →

I don’t usually get off the technical tracks with this blog, but what an amazing night for America.  I know that about half the country will be disappointed with the election of Obama, and I think it is ok to be disappointed if you don’t agree with his politics.  Regardless, I think you have be [...] Continue reading →