Binary Bob’s Blog

20
Aug

Which “4″ will be first? Silverlight or Flex?

Posted By Bob Bartholomay under Flex Study, Silverlight.

News today that Flex 4 has been pushed back from “4th quarter 09″ to “early 2010″. See Rachael and Tom’s Site for details. The Agile principle of “delivering working software frequently” really can’t be applied to products of the scale and importance of the likes of Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst. You must get it [...]

13
Aug

Flex controls go “lookless” in Flash Builder

Posted By Bob Bartholomay under Flex Study, Silverlight.

Its fun to watch the two leading RIA platforms evolve. Microsoft’s Silverlight and Adobe’s Flex are similar in the general but different in the particular. Its easy for the zealots of one camp or the other to accuse each of “stealing” ideas from the other but I feel that similarities are just the product of [...]

12
Aug

Flash Player hosed on installation of Flash Builder

Posted By Bob Bartholomay under Flash Study, Flex Study.

I’m not blaming anybody but one of my machines got all sorts of wacky after I installed the Flash Builder Beta. It took me hours to find the fix so this post is being written only to hopefully help out the next person with the same issue and so the search bots can find it. [...]

12
Aug

Summer break [off topic]

Posted By Bob Bartholomay under Misc.

I spend my summers in Vail, Colorado and this time of the year is spectacular to say the least. Those of you in the southern hemisphere can look forward to your summer but we in the northern need to take some time to enjoy the world around us. I have taken the last few weeks [...]