Monthly Archives: February 2008

Run Ruby code in the Flash Player?

Or even better write Flash/Flex Rich Internet Applications with Ruby? Ted Patrick says it may soon be possible.
When Microsoft released Silverlight the one feature that got a lot of people excited was that you could use the language you were most familiar with to build a RIA. Apparently Adobe has an internal project which allows [...]

Posted in AIR, ActionScript, Flash, Flex, RIA, Ruby, Silverlight | Leave a comment

Flex Builder 3 is out

Most people I know have been using the beta for production work but now it’s official.
$99 to upgrade from FB2.

Posted in Flex | 3 Comments

Looking for Flex work in New York?

Tim let me know that massify.com are looking for a Flex/Flash developer.
Company: massify.com
Job Title: Flash/Flex RIA Developer
Description: Flash/Flex RIA Developer
Massify is a community driven site that brings film creatives and
movie buffs together in the pursuit of great film; we’re using the
power of the web to transform the way films are made – and, in [...]

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Network Solutions sucks ballz

My habit of using Network Solutions to check the availability of domain names then jumping over to GoDaddy to buy them will have to stop. Whenever I get an idea for a site I brainstorm a bunch of domain names by checking availability/similar names through Network Solutions because, despite their outrageous prices, they have [...]

Posted in Misc. | 1 Comment

Mosso offers ‘new’ cloud hosting

I got all excited this morning reading TechCrunch with their post about Rackspace Offerering Cloud Computing with Mosso. Once I clicked through to investigate further it seems the ‘new’ cloud hosting is just their old hosting plan with 30GB of storage slashed off (down to 50GB) so they can charge you 0.50/GB a month for [...]

Posted in Media Temple, Mosso, Ruby on Rails, SliceHost | 3 Comments

Interesting Links: Rails and BlazeDS, Yahoo! map components for AS3

Derek shows how to push AMF encoded messages from the server with Rails through BlazeDS.
Ted introduces the Yahoo! map components for AS3.
Combine the two and you could build a Flex/Rails app that tracks someone’s position in real time.

Posted in ActionScript, BlazeDS, Flash Remoting, Flex, Ruby on Rails | Leave a comment

Looking for Flex work in SoCal?

FarHeap hosted the Orange County Flex user group meeting last night and they’re looking for four full-time Flex developers.

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Blogging for Dollars

Entrepreneur magazine has an interesting article on John Chow who has a blog on making money with a blog, whatever he’s doing must be working as he makes $25,000 a month!
Chow has also assembled his income-earning techniques into a 59-page web book downloadable at johnchow.com. Make Money Online is free, but it still makes money [...]

Posted in Misc. | 1 Comment

Adobe Compares Flex and Ajax

The comparison is coming from one of the horses mouths so take it with a grain a salt. That said I think Adobe tried not to step on some Ajax toes and didn’t make a strong enough case for Flex.
It’s a good basic overview but there are a couple of things I disagree with;
Why use [...]

Posted in Ajax, Flash Remoting, Flex, RIA | 1 Comment

Vote!

The choice is yours, but if you’re on the fence that Obama fellow seems alright.
Why? Scarlett likes him…

So does Bobby…

OK seriously, Why Obama Matters.
Obama’s candidacy in this sense is a potentially transformational one. Unlike any of the other candidates, he could take America—finally—past the debilitating, self-perpetuating family quarrel of the Baby Boom generation that has [...]

Posted in Politics | 3 Comments