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		<title>Inside Scoop: Adobe Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 official release</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, the time so many of us have been eagerly awaiting for the last two years has arrived, and its no surprise that the twitter-verse, facebook-verse, linkedin-verse, and other social media universes are buzzing quite loudly with the news already, before it even had a chance to hit the tabloids (no surprise there). I&#8217;m sure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danorlando.com/?p=505</link>
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		<title>Second Generation Micro-architectures, Part 1: The Swiz Framework</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Second Generation Micro-architectures
One of the primary reasons we have microarchitectures and design patterns in the first place is to maximize simplicity in application code. The problem is that not every architect understands this. Often we find architectures and design patterns being used in ways that do nothing more than increase complexity, which is counter-intuitive. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danorlando.com/?p=488</link>
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		<title>Flash Camp Phoenix a Huge Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flash Camp Phoenix was held in front of a sellout crowd on Friday, and everyone considered it a huge success. I consider this a huge success for the local Phoenix Flash Platform community as this was the FIRST Adobe-based event held in the Phoenix-metro area and the turnout was HUGE. Some of the highlights of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danorlando.com/?p=480</link>
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		<title>Adobe Burned Twice After Apple Shuns Flash One More Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been hard not to notice the adamant (and sometimes extreme) stance that a number of Apple fans have taken in Apple&#8217;s defense to the shocking evidence that Apple has not been telling the entire truth with regard to their reasoning for not allowing Flash on iPhones/iPods. First, let me be perfectly clear: I own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danorlando.com/?p=472</link>
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		<title>A few words on the state of current web tech: Apple&#8217;s iPhone, the iPad, Adobe Flash, and HTML 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although I&#8217;ve been in pretty deep finishing the book Flex 4 in Action, some recent conversations along with Apple&#8217;s iPad announcement this morning inspired me to blog about my take on the current state of the web as I&#8217;ve been following market trends in media consumption for a little while now.
HTML 5 vs. Flash
For some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danorlando.com/?p=468</link>
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		<title>Best Drunk on Software Episode Ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a good depiction of what Adobe MAX was like this year.


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A Real-World [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danorlando.com/?p=465</link>
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		<title>FlashCamp is coming to Phoenix Dec. 4th &#8211; Early Bird Registration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be speaking at the upcoming FlashCamp event along with several of my colleagues, and I guarantee it&#8217;s going to be a wild ride. If you&#8217;re a Flash Platform developer, you definitely don&#8217;t want to miss this all-day event&#8230;
Where and When
The event will be held all day at the University of Advancing Technology (about a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danorlando.com/?p=461</link>
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		<title>Adobe takes Flash to the iPhone at MAX 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday&#8217;s keynote was interesting, but if you ask most people that were there to give you a rundown, they&#8217;ll probably only be able to tell you one thing: Flash support for the iPhone is finally here. I can confidently say that I am one of those people, but from a general perspective, I found it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danorlando.com/?p=440</link>
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		<title>Open source clientside RIA frameworks for SaaS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IBM developerWorks recently published a new article that I wrote, titled Use the best open source client-side framework for cloud computing. The article ultimately takes Flex and OpenLaszlo and puts them head-to-head against each other.
Why Flex and OpenLaszlo? 
Flex is clearly the market dominator for RIA applications, and though OpenLaszlo may have a lot of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danorlando.com/?p=417</link>
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		<title>Enterprise Flex and the Swiz Framework Architecture, Part 3: Using Autowire and Mediate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last entry on the Swiz framework architecture, we took a look into the use of the CentralDispatcher. More specifically, we looked at the middle section of the following architectural diagram that I designed to help Swiz make more sense for developers. In this entry, we will get into the upper portion of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danorlando.com/?p=226</link>
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		<title>Using the Zend Framework to take some wind out of AIR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have worked at length with the Zend framework for PHP, you already know that it can do just about anything you could possibly need it to. With that in mind, it is not surprising to find that Zend will talk to almost any web service available, and it’s all built right into the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danorlando.com/?p=413</link>
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		<title>Traditional Project Management vs. Agile Development with Software as a Service projects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
The purpose of this entry is not to define Agile development methods (there&#8217;s more than enough of that out there already), but rather to identify the characteristics of a company that is properly implementing and seeing positive results from Agile Project Management.
When an SaaS project is initiated, those who are responsible for building the invention [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danorlando.com/?p=406</link>
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		<title>Flex 4 Features for Creating Software as a Service now on IBM developerWorks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hot off the IBM developerWorks web press is &#8220;Flex 4 Features for Creating Software as a Service&#8221;.  This article is especially useful for developers that want to know what is new in Flex 4 that is conducive to building RIA Software as a Service. The focus of the article is primarily visual elements associated with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danorlando.com/?p=400</link>
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		<title>The inside scoop on my recent article on AWS: Hosting Flex Applications and Zend PHP on Amazon EC2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Amazon Web Services Developer Connection recently published an article I wrote for them called, &#8220;Hosting Flex Applications and PHP Services with the Zend Framework in Amazon EC2&#8243;. Naturally, I&#8217;m the last person to find out about these things, so you may already know about this. The purpose of the article is to assist RIA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danorlando.com/?p=395</link>
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		<title>Discover the Power of Flex and CSS &#8211; on IBM developerWorks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article I wrote for IBM developerWorks about 9 months ago was just published &#8211; in the nick of time too, before the release of Flex 4. The article is on working with Flex and CSS, and some of the content will no longer apply once the Flex 4 SDK officially comes out of beta. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danorlando.com/?p=390</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Flex 4 in Action&#8221; (Early Access Edition) Now Available!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Manning Early Access Publications (MEAP) is offering special offers on pre-orders and early access to the book I am co-authoring with Flex extraordinaires &#8211; Tariq Ahmed and John C. Bland, called Flex 4 in Action. The pre-release versions of the first 7 chapters are complete and have been published as part of the MEAP early [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danorlando.com/?p=387</link>
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		<title>Building Custom Components with Flex 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Upon conducting the necessary research for my current chapter in Flex 4 in Action that I am working on, I felt it would be worthwhile to post a blog to help clarify some confusion that may be surrounding the Flex 3 versus Flex 4 components. Contrary to my previous post, I&#8217;m not speaking from an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danorlando.com/?p=379</link>
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		<title>Understanding the Flex 4 Spark Component Architecture and how to Build Custom Components with the Flex 4 SDK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The architecture of the new Spark components in Flex 4 supercedes the Halo components of Flex 3. Upon learning how to leverage the  architecture of Spark components, you will find the improvements to be quite substantial.
Ultimately, the new component architecture with the Spark library makes building, modifying, and designing custom components a lot easier and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danorlando.com/?p=374</link>
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		<title>Adobe Flash Builder 4: Data-centric Features for PHP (PHPBuilder.com)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just ran across an article I wrote during the Flash Builder 4 beta pre-release, which was apparently published today (of course, no one tells me these things, which is ironic). It discusses the new Data-centric features for PHP built into Flash Builder 4.
Coming from a PHP background, my goal was to help accelerate the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danorlando.com/?p=369</link>
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		<title>Data-centric Adobe Flash Builder development with the Zend Framework</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first of a series of articles I recently wrote on the Data-centric features of Flash Builder 4 was recently published on the Zend Developer Zone. Obviously this article focuses on the built-in automated data-centric development features for PHP and the Zend framework in Flash Builder 4 beta. Check it out.

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		<link>http://danorlando.com/?p=362</link>
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