Category Archives: FLEX

Flex is a highly productive, free, open source framework for building expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems by leveraging the Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe AIR® runtimes. While Flex applications can be built using only the free Flex SDK, Adobe Flash Builder™ (formerly Adobe Flex® Builder™) software can accelerate development through features like intelligent coding, interactive step-through debugging, and visual design of the user interface layout.

I spoke about HTML5, and left out some notes

Posted on 04/14/2011 by Eric Fickes

Tonight I spoke about the state of HTML5 and my thoughts about it’s future.  The overall message of the talk was to think of HTML5 as a tool rather than a Flash killer.  In time, HTML5 is expected to advance … Continue reading →

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360 Flex, HTML5, Adobe AIR, and a bathrobe

Posted on 09/22/2010 by Eric Fickes

I’m happy to share my 360 Flex presentation on HTML5 and Adobe AIR.  This is a topic I have a renewed interest in after Steve Jobs decided to start a war against Adobe’s Flash player.  Also, my very first major … Continue reading →

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Upload to ASP.NET from HTML, Flash, or Flex clients

Posted on 08/11/2010 by Eric Fickes

File uploading has been a hot topic during my time as an internet programmer.  In the classic ASP days this was a bit of a task to build and get correct.  Nowadays both Adobe’s Coldfusion and Microsoft’s ASP.NET both have … Continue reading →

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I am going to 360 Flex DC, and so should you

Posted on 07/11/2010 by Eric Fickes

I’m happy to announce I received my Golden Ticket to speak at the next 360 Flex conference in Washington DC.  The conference will be held at the Hilton DC North Gaithersburg, September 19 – 22, 2010. I’m going to 360 Flex … Continue reading →

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