If you're like me, you hate when your blog engine screws up the formatting of your already challenging-to-comprehend posts. Sorry. I'm working on it. Again, if you're like me, you are frustrated by the lack of tangible examples of Flex within the Municipal Enterprise. (Or more to the point, if you're like me, you may be [...

Breaking with tradition, I will ask my question first then ramble on about comparatively nothing. Help requested for the former, tolerance for the unavoidable latter. Anybody sweated through an SOA presentation to a policy-over-productivity government IT Governance body (or similar) and lived to tell about it? Tricks? Strategy?   Would that I could simply talk them into [...

I gotta think the non-native-English-speaking office of Macromedia must have developed the Flash framework. Why? I could be self-loathing and say, "because it evolved into something quite wonderful". Or, I could be truthful, and say, "because the semantics suck".

Someone. ANYONE. Please!? It would seem that AIR would provide an excellent basis to plug a serious gap in the Adobe product line—the presentation app. But where is it? I see the Swift3D folks made one for Microsoft's Silverfish or WTF. Whatever they're calling it, the app sure looks a lot like Adobe Bridge. Ironically, it doesn't [...

When my coworkers suggested using a Microsoft Access database for our latest online project, I wasn't sure I was cool enough to disregard years of wisdom advising against doing just that. So, I did what I always do. I put on my thinking cap (alright, my thinking hoodie) and tried to figure out how to [...

It's almost magic the way it takes the data or imagery from your $10k - $20k+ ESRI ArcIMS or ArcGIS Server and sends it to any ArcWeb Explorer clients requesting it. ArcWeb Explorer is free, but ESRI charges a very minimal per-access charge to provide the service.

The prototype.js library, brought to the attention of the world, the ray of sunshine, the hope for a new tomorrow, the coke AND the smile that is, the almighty Super-Duper Dollar-Sign™ ($) that has taken the tedium of out of obtaining quick access to one or more DOM entities. What I've not seen, is the same clever approach in ActionScript.