There is an error in Session 1 of Hello! Flex 4. This error got introduced during typesetting. I have been raked over the coals for this in a one-star review of the book here.
The short version is you need to change the code in Session 1 to this:
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<s:Application
xmlns:fx=”http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009″
[...]
Hello! Flex 4 launched to some glowing reviews!
First of all, however, the free stuff…
Session #14, one of my favorite workshop sessions from Hello! Flex 4, is reprinted in full in the following Adobe DevNet article:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex4_graphics_game.html
You can also read chapter 1 and chapter 3 for free at:
http://manning.com/armstrong3/
Now for the reviews. Hello! Flex 4 has also been getting [...]
I’m doing a 1-day workshop on using Flex and Rails together.
When: Sunday, January 27, 2008
Where: BCIT, downtown Vancouver
For more information, see here.
I’m really excited about it; it’s going to be a lot of fun!
Note: this is cross-posted from http://www.flexiblerails.com/2008/1/5/speaking-at-acts_as_conference
I’m going to be speaking at acts_as_conference on February 8-9 in Orlando, Florida.
The title for my talk is “Rails on AIR”. The pompous title is “Rails on AIR: Best Practices for using Flex 3 and Adobe AIR with Ruby on Rails 2″. I’d hoped to be done Rails [...]
(Copied from my blog at http://www.flexiblerails.com/blog.)
With everything going on surrounding Flexible Rails, I forgot to blog this until now: I am speaking about using Flex with Rails at the Rails to Italy conference in Pisa this Saturday (October 27, 2007)!
I am very honoured to be included in this amazing speaker list.
The full title of my [...]
The description of the Office 2.0 Conference panel is here.
It’s on Thursday, September 6, 2007, from 2:15PM - 3:00PM in the Conservatory.
Marc Orchant from blognation USA is going to be moderating, and Dion Almaer, Jnan Dash from Curl, Kevin Hakman from TIBCO, Ryan Stewart from Adobe and David Temkin from Laszlo will all be [...]
I’m going to be talking about Flex and Rails at a free (but space is limited, so go sign up NOW!) “Vancouver RIA Developer Camp”, i.e. Flex Camp, on August 30.
Space is limited, so go sign up!
Besides me, there is a great line up of speakers including Andre Charland, Duane Nickull, Ross Ladell, Steve Bond [...]
The first content-complete PDF of Flexible Rails has been released. It’s 497 pages, and is one of the most difficult things I have done in my life.
All that is left is the editing process which turns it into a print book.
Woo hoo!
Dear Adobe,
Please clone Rails in ActionScript. Since AIR puts SQLite on the user’s machine, this should be usable. I don’t have the time to do this—and I probably don’t have the skill! However, if Steve Yegge could do a Rails clone in JavaScript, then a Rails clone in ActionScript should be possible. [...]
I just posted a blog post at flexiblerails.com about why Flexible Rails is staying independent, and talking about Books as a Service (BaaS) as an evolution of the Beta Book in technical publishing…
