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So, the folks at Google have been as busy as ever.  They just released a new language Go.  It has a loosely C-like syntax, compiles directly to native code, and is meant to be a low-level “systems” language. I happened to be right in the middle of performance-tuning a FastCGI library in Python, with a focus [...]

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Drew Shefman, a Houston based senior flex consultant and manager of the Houston Adobe Users Group, recently had fantasic attendance at the MAX09 roundup  meeting where he presented tips and tricks and sneeks from the latest Adobe conference.

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There are many template engines available for Python already; Mako, Tenjin, Evoque, Cheetah, etc. Unfortunately, many of these do not support Py3k, and of the ones that do, none of them were building their template objects the way I felt it should be done: by using python’s AST [abstract syntax tree] objects directly. So, I wrote Suba. Any of the [...]

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Adobe has a new a framework that allows developers to create standalone Flex applications and then gather them together into a larger application. If you haven’t seen Adobe Mosaic Tiles yet, check it out here http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/mosaic/. Tiles permits multiple applications to be “mashed” together into one larger application; of course, once they are, there needs [...]

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I recently had the opportunity to integrate the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service, also known as AFCS, with another application.  For those of you that don’t know, AFCS is a hosted Adobe service that gives Flex developers the ability to easily add real-time social capabilities directly into an application. Getting Started: Although it’s still in Beta, the product [...]

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It’s official. Rails is starting to look like a shiny new hammer* in my toolbox. Actually, it’s been that way for a while. An insane level of productivity, easy to understand persistence framework (unlike hibernate), baked-in REST, lots of community support, opinionated development guidelines, works on the JVM, etc. What’s not [...]

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When you're putting together a Flex team, it’s imperative to identify what your requirements are and the number of resources that you’ll need to address them. You must determine what your team needs to accomplish before you begin to assemble it, otherwise you risk redundancy, inefficiency, and slowed or stalled projects. It sounds elementary, but this step can save you a lot of headaches later on.

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