Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralDec 29th, 2008 | 2 Comments
I’ve been so busy with client work I haven’t written for a long time. I was even invited to speak at MAX through a referral from Tom and John with 360|Flex and wasn’t able to write about it. I was so busy with client work when I wasn’t doing that I was preparing my presentations.
After this week I will be mostly done with a large project deadline and have time to get back to writing. There’s much I want to talk about. Including a RESTful website system I’ve helped build on PHP’s Zend Framework, cool stuff with cloud computing, and maybe even some Python....
Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralOct 16th, 2008 | 2 Comments
Geek alert: this post gets into Linux and other such topics. More geeky than I usually get.
I have finally got my setup complete. I got tired of trying to find Mac binaries of all the libraries I wanted installed for web development, and I’ve been doing much more PHP this month than Flex. So I reworked things. Here’s my setup:
Ubuntu Server 8.0.4 running on VMWare Fusion
lighttpd web server, learned it in a few hours and loved it (thanks Jake)
sshfs to mount my ~/Sites folder to the /var/www/ folder on the Ubuntu VM
Installing Ubuntu Server on VMWare wasn’t a problem. I tried...
Posted by Jacob Wright in Layered ContentSep 12th, 2008 | 1 Comment
Speaking of Layered Content, I woke up last night at 2 a.m. with some great ideas that I’ve been putting into action since then. Specifically, Layered Content will be framework independent, and it will be able to integrate with any of the web frameworks (Zend Framework, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, etc.) or be used stand-alone. What does that mean? It mean’s if you’ve got a site to put together for a client you can use your framework of choice and tack on Layered Content. You’ll be able to give them a way to manage their content on top of whatever magic you’ve coded up for...
Posted by Jacob Wright in FlashSep 12th, 2008 | 1 Comment
I’ve been involved with the Flight framework since its inception at mediaRAIN. I’ve helped Tyler with it via brainstorming, feedback, etc. But he’s been the one mostly to code it up.
It’s been great from the beginning for a lot of our projects because it has built-in undo/redo and allows for some quite custom things along those lines. Well, Tyler went in another direction with it for awhile, wanting to please everyone, taking out Singletons and such for example, and mediaRAIN forked it into a project called Nimbus. I will probably be helping out with both as I can.
Flight...
Posted by Jacob Wright in ActionScript 3Sep 5th, 2008 | 7 Comments
Here’s a PDF version of my presentation.
Advanced ActionScript APIs Presentation
Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralAug 20th, 2008 | No Comments
Back in February I posted some ideas Tyler and I worked on for a component framework we’re calling Stealth. We were inspired after Ely Greenfield’s Flex Roadmap presentation at MAX last year. It struck a chord with may of our talks together about how the components ought to be architected, so we set out to make an AS3 component set.
We made a proof-of-concept and shared with a few friends. Because it’s so basic and raw we didn’t want to post any of the code, but after talking with Ben Stucki (Open Flux) at 360 Flex this year and some of the Gumbo team I thought some of the...
