First Post from my EeePC

The title says it all. This is my first post from my new Asus EeePC. ultra-portable computer. The keyboard is a bit small for full-fledged writing, but the machine is very cool. It is tiny, the battery lasts 4 hours, and its very powerful considering its size.



It weighs in at just 2 lbs, runs linux, and is smaller than a hard-back book. It has a 7 inch screen at 800x480. Its definitely not the 1680x1050 of my other computer, but still gets the job done. I can see lots of uses for this machine in the future. Now I just need to get the internet connection on my phone working...

Blogs, Books, and More!

Yep, I've been up to a lot of writing lately. Not only have I been actively writing for InsideRIA.com, I've been working on books.

The Flex 3 Cookbook is about to go to print (if it's not there already). I'm a contributing author for this book, and wrote the chapter on "Communicating with the Browser". Go buy it!

We're moving forward with Professional Flex 3. I'm one of the authors for this book, and have a good bit to write still. :) It is going to be a very comprehensive book, with a solid group of authors. It should be available in the fall of 2008. You can read a bit more about the book and the team here:
http://www.joeflash.ca/blog/2008/03/the-professional-flex-3-book.html
(the information on Amazon about this book is wrong)

New Article on Devnet

My article "Use ColdFusion 8 and Flex 3 to export visual components" was released yesterday on the Adobe Developer Connection. Go Check it out! This article shows you how to export visual components in Flex 3 using the ImageSnapshot class, which is much easier than the old "bitmapData.draw" method. This article also shows you how to serialize and store images on a ColdFusion server using Flas/Flex Remoting and CFFile, shows you how to generate image thumbnails using CFImage, and shows you how to embed the Image Snapshots into a PDF using CFDocument.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/screen_exports.html?devcon=f2

Enjoy!