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  • Basic Charting Drawing Routines for Flash & Flex Mobile Development

    AIR for Android ActionScript Charting ExampleIntroduction

    A friend asked about the potential to develop a set of ActionScript charts that looked good and would run on Mobile, specifically Android phones and iPhone. Apparently a client was asking, and he wanted to know the feasibility for re-use. We discussed the challenges with the existing Flex charts, specifically their lack of Flex 4 skinning abilities, but more importantly their lack of performance scalability.

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  • State of the Flash & Flex Market for 2010

    Sorry so late, folks, I usually do this in March or April.  This year was really strange, so I waited hoping for some context that never came.  Much is the same as last year.

    Introduction

    The following is a broad coverage of the state of the Flash & Flex market for both W2 and 1099 (employee and freelance) with some W9 data (corp to corp, consulting, etc).   (more…)

  • Silverlight Strategy Misconceptions

    Preface

    Two weeks ago at Microsoft’s Professional Developer’s Conference (PDC), the lack of Silverlight content, more HTML5 content, as well as comments from Bob Muglia, the Microsoft President in charge of the company’s server and tools business, people reacted negatively towards Silverlight’s future.  The press/blogsphere had a field day saying Silverlight was dead, and Microsoft was betting their future on HTML5.  To add insult to injury, they did so WITHOUT admitting to actually snorting coke whilst writing those articles.

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