The Flex Guy

For a really long time, I have been hosting through GoDaddy.com.  They have great prices and great customer support.  Every time I’ve called in, I talked to someone who understood my issue and had access to enough of my account information that they could figure out what I could or couldn’t do about my issue. [...]

Well, it’s official.  I’ll be at MAX 2008 in San Francisco this year.  I will be a TA at a few sessions so maybe I’ll see you there.  Here’s the sessions I’ll be a TA for: Session Date/Time Location Deploying Services with BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services ES 11/17 2:00 pm Marriott Golden Gate A3 [...]

One of the simplest and most used projects I’ve done is the htmlText Editor. Mainly used by Flex developers, it provides a shortcut to having htmlText generated in a WYSIWYG type editor. I’ve thought for a long time about making a desktop app out of it. The time has come. It’s got some additional features [...]

The Blueprint Code Manager is more of a complete system that would allow users to create a “blueprint” of what their final software product would look like on disk or downloaded, and then generate the image from subversion repositories.

Beanstalk Beanstalk is an application to manage user group members and their participation… Right now, I’m working on an AIR application that user group managers can use to connect to their user group websites.  Provided the site is running on Joomla, they can authenticate through the AIR app against the Joomla site.  The vision is [...]

MLS csv2kml takes the Membership.csv file that can be created from MLS (ask your Clerk for this file) and by simply dropping the file onto the running application, it will gather the information needed and construct a kml file that can be used with Google Earth to visualize all the members of your Ward or [...]

I created the htmlText Editor to solve a workflow issue I was running into while working on a project a while back.  I had a Flex app that was getting it’s text strings from an XML file.  Many of the strings were going to be formatted and used in an htmlText control. The problem: Flex [...]

I now offer tutoring to those who want to learn more about Flex and ActionScript.  I know that learning a new technology can seem intimidating for some so I teach with a style that will give you what you need to know to be a professional developer without all the fluff.  There are two ways [...]

The Flex Guy site has completed it’s make-over and now is completely running on Joomla!  With a slick new look and feel, I’ll be using it to show off work I’ve done and provide a more straight forward interface to those who want to download and use the finished products. I’m always open to suggestions [...]

Here’s a test of the rokbox: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqixrkt6Dhk