Archive for February, 2009

How do I learn Flex?

The world of Flex development is pretty big and it’s expanding all the time. There are many types of applications that can be built with Flex from dashboards to widgets, media playback utilities to Enterprise RIAs and don’t forget interactive kiosks and Internet aware desktop applications. One of the most common questions that I get [...]

Simple Spring Example Project

The Spring framework is not new, it’s been around since mid 2003. In very simple terms Spring is a framework to help build Java (and .NET) applications. Spring helps organize and orchestrate the source code for Java applications. Spring can be used with any Java application including Java web applications.
This is beneficial to Flex applications [...]

A Flex / Flash guy learning more about Java

Understanding more about Java is great. A good amount of knowledge can be shared between Flex/ActionScript 3.0 and Java. I’ve worked with Java in the past, compiled some applications, read the tutorials and some books, helped build a Java based LMS and also worked with Adobe on writing a simple Java socket server, but I [...]