I was told last week that we have entered “The Age of Javascript“. The javascript age is about the migration from page based development on the LAMP stack, to the partial page loading data driven development style. A style of development that the flash community has been utilizing for at least six years. The Javascript age is not only about client side development, its about the language itself finally being recognized for the strengths it possesses. ...

360 Flex is the worlds best Flex conference! This year there is only one scheduled and its happening in Denver on April 10-13. Simb & Company is proud to announce that we will be speaking again this year at 360 Flex on “Putting some Javascript in your backend”. Node.js is a powerful platform that is taking the internet by storm. Its real strength is in real time communication and high load scenarios, which makes it perfect as a backend to your...

This month at PDX RIA we will be hosting Adobe’s Ryan Stewart. Ryan will be doing a presentation on the very diverse world of mobile and the Flash Platform at the Portland Adobe User Group on January 20th. He’ll be covering the iOS Packager for Flash Professional, Flex Mobile, AIR for Android, and the RIM tablet. It’s going to be a mix of hello world samples so that you can see the workflows as well as some techniques I have found for optimizing...

In honor of the holidays the team at Simby decided to have some fun this year. Many people participate in Movember by growing a mustache each November. However we think Mustaches are creepy, and decided to show our support by growing beards in December. And as such myDecembeard.com was born. The team at Simby often likes to explore new technologies. The hardest part about this is finding a good project to put things to the test on. Lately we have been doing a lot...

I was working on a really simple application this weekend for a friend. We had talked about basically making him a digital business card that his customers could install on their mobile phones. I thought this would be another great opportunity to highlight the cross platform development benefits of PhoneGap. So I jumped in and we did a quick mockup of his app including how it would look in portrait (upright) and landscape (sideways) views. I quickly laid out the...

A month or so ago the Flex team posted specs on the Adobe Open Source site talking about some of the features that they plan to add in Flex 4.5 specifically for mobile. Specifically these new classes include the MobileApplication, View & ViewNavigator, and the ActionBar. Then last week Adobe posted an updated build of Flex 4.5 to the open source site, but the mobile bits had been removed. Now today an Adobian has posted some video of an application he built...

The FlexUnit team just put the finishing touches on the first release candidate and posted the files for download. Unless we get some very scary bugs, these files will be very close to what the final version of 4.1 will include. I think the only known change we have planned is building against the new Hamcrest that Drew tagged this weekend. The team has already been hard at work prepping fresh features for the 4.2 release which has some new CI functionality as...