Entries from August 2008

Do you <3 contests ?

Wednesday
Aug 27,2008

 

There’s currently many cool contests underway in the Flex community. To be sure that you won’t miss any of them, here’s a short list (let me know if I miss anything) :

SpatialKey Technology Preview

Thursday
Aug 7,2008

  Doug McCune and Universal Mind just announced the launch their new baby,  SpatialKey, a geospatial information visualization product.
If you have enough of those markers on web-based maps, you will love SpatialKey :  you will be able to render heatmaps, heat grids or graduated circles by just uploading a simple CSV files ! As a [...]

Flex 3 SDK wins a Bossies Award

Wednesday
Aug 6,2008

Each year, InfoWorld’s Bossies (Best of Open Source Software awards) recognize the best open source software for business. The 2008 BOSSIE winners include 60 products in eight categories covering business and productivity applications, development tools, middleware, networking, security, and storage.
Flex has won in the Rich Internet Applications category, congrats !

Competitors to Flex include OpenLazlo [...]

Flex in a week and AS3 workshop

Friday
Aug 1,2008

When you want to learn Flex, it’s not always easy to choose which course to attend or which book to buy. Here’s your chance to get access to free valuable learning resources. Enjoy !
Flex in a Week is a 5 days long free video based online training program for developers. This program is intended to [...]

my Flickchart review

Friday
Aug 1,2008

 What is Flickchart ?
Flickchart is a website that lets you rank movies to create your own personal list of favorites by using the Flickchart matchup system : their pairing system shows you two movies, and you decide which of the two you prefer (for any particular reason). If you haven’t seen one of them, [...]