TweetDeck, The Next Step In My Twitter Addiction

Jul 4 by Michael Benner

TweetDeck has entered public beta (link at the bottom) and you should run out and get it ASAP.

I have become addicted to Twitter. TwitterCFC (by Andy Jarrett), Twhirl, Twinkle and now TweetDeck. I use TwitterCFC for several Coldfusion projects and thought about building an air client, but I have no need. Iain Dodsworth has built TweetDeck that meets and exceeds my expectations for overall feature set.

I have started using Twitter for light messaging on our Intranet.


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LiveCycle Data Services (LCDS), BlazeDS and Flex 3

Apr 10 by Michael Benner

First the beta of LCDS ES 2.6 is available (link at the end).

Now, with that out of the way, I am at a quandary. I am learning Flex 3 as I write this and was getting ready to venture into the realm of LCDS (with ColdFusion) and BlazeDS. Do I play with beta (were bugs are likely to lurk) or just go to Blaze for now?


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Coldfusion Hotfix for Flex Remoting (yes, post CF 8 Update 1)

Apr 10 by Michael Benner

This hotfix is to fix the ability to use CFC functions that are public (via Flex) even if your remote-config.xml is set to only remote. "Read More" for the link.


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The AIR Demo Promised

Apr 3 by Michael Benner

OK, so the new site (http://www.bennr.com) is not going as smoothly as hoped, so I moved the article and app here.

My wife has finally threatened to leave me for another developer if I don't get her site finished, oh yeah, and it has to be the "COOLEST" site ever...Well, damn, I am a keyboard cowboy who doesn't have the slightest flair for design (have you seen this site), and


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AIR Demo Coming Soon...

Mar 31 by Michael Benner

Last night I stayed up working on an AIR project for my wife's photo studio and thought it would make a very cool AIR demo to post up. With that in mind I bought a new domain name and will be posting all my ("web 2.0") demos there. What is it you might ask? Well


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