The blog of Mike Kollen. (It's about time!) /index.cfm Salesforce and Adobe just announced Flash Builder for Force.com. There is a developer preview available now with the release sometime in 1H 2010. Developers will be able to create Web 2.0 UI views and widgets, tied to the Salesforce.com cloud quickl... http://www.mikekollen.com/client/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=1B4B9094-E1CE-695F-D06AC9C83F53D565 2009-10-28T11:07:00-07:00 Salesforce.com,Flash Builder 4 I really enjoy playing and watching tennis. From Connors (Determination / Cool), Chang (High School), Roddick (Serve / USA), and now Rafael Nadal (Mental, Physical Giant, & Federer Dominator). If you have had a chance to see Rafael Nadal on the red... http://www.mikekollen.com/client/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=C71437BA-952B-C347-B1911E86AD733700 2009-04-20T22:05:00-07:00 Tennis Adobe Flex Builder which is about $800 IDE is FREE for education. You can go to www.flexregistration.com if you are student to request a copy. Eligibility Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro is available for free to all education customers. This includes ... http://www.mikekollen.com/client/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=F1065185-F089-C11C-D736D2D6453896C7 2008-10-10T08:32:00-07:00 Flex 3,Adobe This is an enchanced version of the Advanced Data Grid example from new Flex 3 Training from Source book, written by Adobe curriculum architect Matt Boles. As my students were working through the code, we added the following enhancements: Advan... http://www.mikekollen.com/client/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=78A85F26-1143-ED80-87F25C5F2B8029E5 2008-03-03T23:07:00-07:00 Flex 3 When Mark Drew and I were getting live updates this week from Macworld and the iPhone came in at number #2 of 4 items Steve Jobs had on his list, we knew 2007 Macworld was going to be tough to top. My late Christmas present from Uncle Steve was going... http://www.mikekollen.com/client/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=94A2FB10-1143-ED80-87767EABD1EEB711 2008-01-19T16:39:00-07:00 Flex 2,iPhone,Apple,Adobe I certainly think that Buzzword is an amazing Rich Internet Application and according to Adobe's PR, "How will Buzzword be integrated with Adobe's other online document services? Buzzword will integrate with Adobe's document services in stages. The... http://www.mikekollen.com/client/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=56305EFA-1143-ED80-87BBCA95A03D207D 2007-10-18T20:31:00-07:00 Buzzword Will we someday be hearing about a future Flex prodigy? Possibly. Grant Skinner is what I consider a Flash prodigy. His gModeler application was leaps and bounds ahead of anything that I had seen built with Flash. It still has merit and utility to... http://www.mikekollen.com/client/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=B0384E96-1143-ED80-8751C1F7B5A799A2 2007-02-11T01:52:00-07:00 Inspiration Here is an awesome blog post from Java and C++ legend Bruce Eckel. This is a must read! It succinctly describes why AJAX and Java applets have fundamental flaws that will be very difficult, if not, impossible to overcome for building Rich Internet ... http://www.mikekollen.com/client/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=7C079B6D-1143-ED80-871381FAC16D4591 2007-01-31T22:38:00-07:00 Java The latest upload to Ted Patrick's Flickr Adobe Flex UI photo gallery is: Intelisea This application is absolutely stunning! It is used for monitoring sea vessel & control systems for safety and security. It contains several innovative scree... http://www.mikekollen.com/client/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=5908481B-1143-ED80-87E8A2563901162D 2007-01-25T00:32:00-07:00 Flex: App of the Year Ted Patrick has created an excellent collection of Flex 2 UI screenshots over on Flickr, from companies such as Kodak, Harley Davidson, Wharton School of Business, Yahoo Maps, Sony Ericsson, Nationwide Bank, Fidelity Mortage, ESRI, Intelisea, and Ma... http://www.mikekollen.com/client/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=58FE6A78-1143-ED80-8790DBE003FC0E74 2007-01-24T01:10:00-07:00 Flickr Don't Fear the Cairngorm Framework (a conversation deep inside a Fortune 50 company at a training session) (MK) Mike Kollen - MVC Cairngorm & Mach-ii Instructor (GF) Gene Frenkle - Procedural & Aspiring MVC Programmer (EB) Eric Bloom - Pr... http://www.mikekollen.com/client/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=6297896B-1143-ED80-87FD04599A98C48C 2007-01-23T23:24:00-07:00 Cairngorm,MVC Blog more! I have been busy as you can see for obvious reasons in the pictures below. My corporate students tend to get most of my time and code examples. I will do my best to contribute more to the general community. I will be teaching ColdFus... http://www.mikekollen.com/client/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=05D9B390-1143-ED80-873CCFC08B41F46F 2007-01-08T23:47:00-07:00 Cairngorm My son was born on December 2nd 2006 (my Christmas present came early). He is in excellent health and likes listening to his mom play the piano. Being a dad is really amazing and a huge blessing. Props to Matt Chotin's slide show application that I ... http://www.mikekollen.com/client/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=05CBF715-1143-ED80-876E11FE1B6FD326 2006-12-31T23:38:00-07:00 Flex 2 The most amazing things come up on those darn ultrasound machines! The baby was already thinking of getting started with Flex and dreaming of code. He recommends that you learn Flex and is already half way through the 3,274 pages of Flex documentat... http://www.mikekollen.com/client/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=E6F9AF14-1143-ED80-873D36765D75ABDB 2006-08-06T21:41:00-07:00 Flex 2 Okay, I am completely impressed with Doug Hughes' Reactor model framework. I was seriously contemplating writing a code generator for Mach-II that would create the bean, gateway, DAO, and possible listener object, (I still may do the listener piece)... http://www.mikekollen.com/client/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=7FA8EA31-1143-ED80-8765E938AAF1E64B 2006-05-29T03:15:00-07:00 Mach-II