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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.

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Post Microsoft MIX 2008 Thoughts

Monday, March 17th, 2008

If you are in a hurry, here are some links with excerpts about the section.
Contents

Introduction - What and Why MIX?
Conference Grounds - Where was MIX and how did it go down
DoubleClick - Syndication ready Silverlight
Have we seen this before? - “Dude, Flash did that years ago.”
Silverlight Adaptive Streaming - Curious about how the buffering works.
Silverlight […]

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Preface
I hate time estimations. Tracking time for contract work takes a close 2nd. Unfortunately, I’ve never seen a lot of combination of both; estimating a project’s time line, and comparing the expectations with the realities at the end… and then actually ACTING on that data. In fairness, “the end” is extremely hard […]

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I Have 4.5 Out of 6 Good Programmer Indicators

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

Daniel, a business guy, lists 6 traits that he believes help identify a good programmer. It’s written for those who aren’t programmers, and want to hire good programmers. I tend to agree with all the points he makes.
The 2 I have slight contention with are the ones I don’t nail; imagine that.
1. Passion
Hell […]

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Who Has Time for Unit Tests?

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

A couple months ago, I read about dpUInt, yet another unit testing framework for Flex. I got it from reading the docs, it seemed easy to add to an existing or new project, and I’m all gung ho for giving it a try. If it sucks, I know I have both FlexUnit and […]

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I had the honor of being 1 of the lucky 10 invited to attend the Mix n Mash 2007 event held by Microsoft. This is the 2nd one. It’s an event where they invite you to Microsoft’s HQ to see what they are working on, give feedback, and meet Bill Gates.
Here’s a picture […]

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