Monthly Archives: April 2008

New job! I’m now an ActionScript Developer at OpenSoft

By Alastair | April 16, 2008

After three years of consulting I’m heading back to a ‘real’ job as a Flash/Flex (mostly the latter) developer at OpenSoft (aka Farheap Solutions). It was a tough call but doing full time Flex work a mere 15 minute commute away was too good to pass up.
The blog, which was about 50/50 Ruby/Flex, will probably [...]

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Some App Engine links

By Alastair | April 15, 2008

Aral Balkan on Building Flash applications with Google App Engine.
PureMVC Python / Google App Engine Demo

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Run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure

By Alastair | April 7, 2008

Google releases App Engine. It’s Python only for now, but there are rumors more languages (Ruby!) will soon be available.
Here’s a video intro. And Django runs out of the box (in the box?) – well some parts are missing like no relational db – still you can’t beat the one line deployment!

Docs! Running Django on [...]

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List of Flex resources and tutorials

By Alastair | April 2, 2008

Paranoid Ferret Productions, who themselves are a great Flex resource, have a list of the ‘Best Adobe Flex Resources and Tutorial Sites‘.

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ActionScript MVC minimalist example for PureMVC 2.0.3

By Alastair | April 1, 2008

I’ve updated Chandima Cumaranatunge’s excellent PureMVC walk-through to work with the latest version of PureMVC (2.0.3). Although PureMVC has extensive documentation nothing beats a simple demo for wrapping your brain around the framework. The most helpful part of Chandima’s tutorial is when he steps through the sequence of actions which includes initialization and then following [...]

Posted in ActionScript, Flash, Flex | 5 Comments