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...

I am listening to Matt Chotin and Ely Greenfield talk about the Flex Open Source announcement again to some of the Community Experts. There are of course many questions and comments about what all this means. I’ll provide some of the insights I have gained by hearing the pitch a second time, an maybe a little of what it means to me. There is mention of Charts and Advanced Data Grid that will still be closed source. So Adobe will still...

I just have to say that the overview of the Flash/Flex/Apollo platform by Ely was great. Along with Ely there was David Wadhwani and Mike Chambers to provide an action packed presentation. All this was captured on Scoble’s podtech videos and can be found here. When I get some more time I’ll try and post my thoughts on the Flex open source...

The Professional Flex 2 book comes out in May. The title of the post is part of Chapter 26: Integration with External Applications (page 626-641). You can check out the rest of the Professional Flex 2 table of contents here. Chapter 26 will show a working C# .Net windows application work with Flash through LocalConnection. It is more of a starting point then an in-depth C# application. But its worth taking a look at if you have ever wondered...