Flex Open Iteration Meetings Resume!
I am so excited to see that the Flex team had gotten through enough of the hush hush code jam on Flex 4.5 that they are ready to start talking to the community about Flex development again! I have complained lately that I missed these opportunities to talk with the team and help to guide the direction of the SDK. So you can guess just how excited I was when I noticed an announcement for the next...
Read MoreFollow-up on Openness at Adobe
I will be the first to admit that I have been openly harsh and possibly mean about the policies at Adobe regarding the management of the Flex SDK. I criticized that the planning was done behind closed doors with no input from the community. I criticized that they were not open to feedback or contributions to the community. I still stand by those accusations. But I am also amazed at how much...
Read MoreMozilla cries like an ungrateful child
I was just going to comment on this article but CNET doesn’t support OpenID and I am not about to go making another account, so I’ll post about it here. In the article Mozilla speaks out against the free-but-proprietary Web apps the author discusses the problems with free but proprietary software. In a quote from the Mozilla Europe’s founder: “Both Adobe and Microsoft...
Read MoreBlazeDS – Adobe Open Sources Flash Remoting and Messaging Servers
On twitter just moments ago, I saw James Ward point toward a truly awsome move by Adobe. Tonight Adobe announced that they are open sourcing the technologies that are the base for Flash Remoting and the Messaging Services found in their high end server technologies. BlazeDS represents the services which makes data transfer with Flash and Flex perform better than traditional javascript (text...
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