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Run and Debug Config for PyDev w/ Google Apps Engine

Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in Google App Engine, OS X, PyDev | 6 Comments »

Now that I have PyDev running in my Eclipse the next big step was to get support for running and debugging the Google App Engine SDK. This will be a simple post since Josh Feth Suttgart already took care ...

Installing PyDev on OS X 10.5.2

Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Google App Engine, OS X, PyDev | 17 Comments »

Update: If you are receiving an error when attempting to point PyDev to the OS X 10.5 install of Python 2.5 and are looking for the proper path to fix the error, then feel free to skip my rant by ...

Is it Flex?

Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development | 1 Comment »

Earlier this morning my friend Aaron hit me up with an IM asking if I had seen SearchMe.com. It is a new visual search engine that is 100% Flash Player based and he was curious if it was Flex. ...

The Flex Code-Behind Pattern

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications, web integration | 12 Comments »

The Flex code-behind pattern is a design pattern that has been around since the release of Flex 1.0 yet is not known or used by a lot of developers. The initial concept of the pattern was based on the ASP.NET ...

ActionScript 3.0: Named Loops

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript | 5 Comments »

One of the benefits of working with other experienced developers is you often get to see tips and tricks they have learned over the years.  ActionScript 3 has a lot of new features and functionality and even after working with ...

Work that flow…

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in General Media / Stuff, Rich Internet Applications, web 2.0, web integration | 1 Comment »

Doug Winnie, the Group Product Manager for Workflow at Adobe, just launched his official blog called "Workflow Experiences".  I can attest to Doug's knowledge on workflow from working with him on the Scion.com redesign which we built entirely in Flex ...

Adobe Kuler 2.0 is live!

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in Flash Player, Rich Internet Applications, kuler, web 2.0, web integration | 5 Comments »

Adobe Kuler is a Flash based web application (and now with an available AIR version) that helps designers and developers with color themes.  Designers can design their own color theme using the Kuler create tools, submit their theme to ...

SXSW 2008 is almost here!

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development, Music, sxsw 2008, web 2.0, web integration | 6 Comments »

This will be my 3rd year in a row for the music portion of the legendary South By Southwest conference. Once again, it starts in Dallas for me where Niki drives us down to Austin for the event. ...

FlexBuilder 3 Pro compiling Flex 2 SKD charts issue

Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Flex Development | No Comments »

I am starting to work on a project that requires charting so I bit the bullet and upgraded to Flex Builder 3 Pro which includes the advanced charting component set. I was looking at some prototype code that was ...

Where are our mid-level developers?

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in Flex Development, General Media / Stuff, Rich Internet Applications, Self Reference, web 2.0, web integration | 2 Comments »

Over the last few years a question has been lingering within the tech community: where are all the mid-level developers? Not only is this question being asked in the tech world, but it is now beginning to be asked ...