I just noticed the blurb on apple.com abot Apple TV and being able to view YouTube videos. It says it wont be out til June (coming soon i guess), but it has me thinking. It has me thinking of Adobe Media Player (as known as Philo) or AMP and the future. Adobe Media Player is an Apollo application with many great features for consumers as wells a content providers. It would be cool to see Apollo runtime make it on to more hardware appliances...

Jame’s is going over the basics of RIA’s and Flex/Apollo. Showing of the auto insurance use case app outlining the reasons for RIA’s. He showed how do a Flickr mashup with Ely’s DisplayShelf with two lines of code. It show the power of using Flex components. The second half of the meeting James talked on Cairngorm and Modules. Plenty of people showed up and there were plenty of questions. Turned out to be a real nice

I came across the sys-con link about a series of Flex Bootcamps today. I hadn’t noticed it before. I found it off a sys-con marketing email about SOA World. It looks like the Flex Bootcamp are a series of one day intense training. The first is in New York, NY on June 24, 2007. There are 4 others listed below: July 23, 2007 – Washington D.C. August 27, 2007 – Austin, TX September 23, 2007 – Santa Clara, CA October 15,...

My year of speaking engagements are filling up. I am excited to be able to speak at both the 2nd installment of 360|Flex in Seattle and MAX in Chicago this year. 360|Flex Seattle is coming up soon and they are starting to fill out the speakers and sessions. For 360|Flex Seattle I will be speaking on something that I have been working on for a while but with the recent changes in my life haven’t been able to finish for the wild yet. The...

This is probably old news but I figured I would bring it up again as I found it interesting. I can across a Flex ad on http://eclipsezone.com. The ad has a picture of Bruce Eckel, author of “Thinking in Java”, along with quotes in regards to his book and thinking in Flex. Something to that affect. This ad compared to some of the early ad’s where Flex 2 did a little comparing with other technologies seems a much better...