(April 26, 2010: Updated with newest features)
A few weeks ago in Colorado Springs there was a fuel tanker crash on the I-25 Interstate, spilling thousands of gallons of fuel and closing the Interstate for over 5 hours.  Traffic patterns were a complete mess as side-roads became major thoroughfares.  As I drove home from work, I [...]

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Making websites that are iPhone-friendly is easy enough, but I recently wanted to make a site that felt like a real iPhone app.  I don’t own a Mac, so building a native iPhone app wasn’t an option.

I turned to iWebKit 5.0, a lightweight DHTML toolkit for making websites that look “native” on the iPhone. It [...]

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Last year I led a software project that employed a SOA architecture and a Flex UI.  The features we were able to build with FlexBuilder (now FlashBuilder) were pretty sweet and remarkably easy…  I’ve become a huge fan of Flex as a result.
The new FlashBuilder 4 provides some powerful new tools for integrating with various [...]

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