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This is the blog of Jesse Warden, a Rich Internet Application Architect. He specializes in using Flex and Flash to create Rich Internet Applications.

AIR 2 Chat Server & Client

December 7th, 2009

Chat Client and Server in AIR 2

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Preface

While waiting for my current contract to get renewed + over the Thanksgiving holidays, I’ve been playing around with AIR 2.  To me, the coolest new feature is a new class called “ServerSocket“.  It’s like the existing Socket class, except it can “listen” for incoming Socket connections.  That’s right, you can make an AIR application that is a server application AND optionally run the sucka via command line instead of making a GUI for it.  How frikin’ cool is that!?

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Preface

There are a lot of good articles already written & screen casts about memory management in Flash Player.  I encourage you to read them first before reading the below.  I cover memory management in a large application using a PureMVC architecture, typically on top of Flex.
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The following is a quick start guide on how to get RobotLegs working on top of the Gaia Flash Framework written by Steven Sacks.  In later articles, I’ll show how to use per-Gaia-page Contexts, a visual example, as well as cover Enterprise scenarios.  For now this should get you up and running in 10 minutes.

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Preface

The following is a set of articles relaying my experiences in Flex consulting with the hope they will benefit others.  While they include general consulting advice, they are specifically geared towards Enterprise Flex software development consulting.  I try to compare and contrast with contracting to give context.  While it’s mainly focused on Flex, there are the occasional Flash references as well.

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Viaas: Live & Archived Video

September 25th, 2009

Viaas: The best project I ever worked on, with the best client I’ve ever had.  This is where my Agile Chronicles came from. The front-end portion I worked on was built using Flex.  Congrats to the Third Iris team for launching!

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