http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm Personal thoughts of Dave Carabetta en-us Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:49:02 -0400 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:20:00 -0400 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss dave@cbetta.com dave@cbetta.com http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/6/10/know-your-congressman-adobe-flex-4-catalyst One of the things that continually keeps me energized about my job is that Cynergy is always on the leading edge of the latest trends in the Rich Internet Application (RIA) world. As a former developer, I love the latest and greatest technologies, an... Cynergy Systems Frameworks Flex Technology Adobe Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:20:00 -0400 http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/6/10/know-your-congressman-adobe-flex-4-catalyst http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/4/20/how-to-build-rias-successfully As their home page says, Forrester Research is a technology and market research company that provides pragmatic advice to global leaders in business and technology. Anybody who works in our industry has heard of Forrester just like they would have he... Cynergy Systems Microsoft Flex Technology Adobe Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:00:00 -0400 http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/4/20/how-to-build-rias-successfully http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/12/30/happy-new-year Yes, this is admittedly a REALLY lame way to resurface after all these months of virtual tumbleweeds, but I did want to wish everybody who stumbles upon this a very happy and healthy New Year. I know there are many who are more than happy to see 2008... Personal Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:45:00 -0400 http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/12/30/happy-new-year http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/7/10/cynergytv-flex-silverlight-why-disappeared So why have I been so quiet for pretty much the last year outside of some token posts? Well, our re-launched CynergyTV experience holds the reason, and I'm glad I can finally talk about it. So Dave, you mean you've spent the last year re-building ... Cynergy Systems Marketing Microsoft ColdFusion Flex Blogging Technology Adobe Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:21:00 -0400 http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/7/10/cynergytv-flex-silverlight-why-disappeared http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/7/1/adobe-announces-searchable-swf-collaboration-Google-Yahoo One reason (OK, there are many, I admit) why this blog has gone bare lately is because I try not to post announcements that every other similar blog in the world has already announced. It's a waste of my time and being one of 2,000 posts on the same ... Marketing Microsoft Flex Technology Adobe Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:50:00 -0400 http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/7/1/adobe-announces-searchable-swf-collaboration-Google-Yahoo http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/4/21/See-You-At-The-Web-20-Show-In-San-Francisco As we announced in early January, Cynergy is a platinum sponsor of the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco this week. Of note, our Vice President, Dave Wolf, will be giving a presentation in Room 2016 entitled Sticky Eyeballs: How UX Wins Market S... Cynergy Systems Marketing Technology Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:00:00 -0400 http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/4/21/See-You-At-The-Web-20-Show-In-San-Francisco http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/23/understanding-which-channel-to-use-blazeds-lcds Tap, Tap. Does this thing still work? :) I have been heads down on a major project for several months now and the delivery is in the next few weeks. I promise I'm still alive and rearing to get back into blogging on a more regular basis. I can't wait... Flex Technology Adobe Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:15:00 -0400 http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/23/understanding-which-channel-to-use-blazeds-lcds http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/10/16/very-important-change-flex-builder-2-flex-builder-3 This has come up several times on the flexcoders mailing list and since it's such an important change, I thought I would post it to help make sure it doesn't get missed. With the release of Flex Builder 3 Beta 2 on Adobe Labs, when you now compile... Flex Technology Adobe Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:27:00 -0400 http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/10/16/very-important-change-flex-builder-2-flex-builder-3 http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/9/6/flex-3-and-2-nightly-builds-available If you're following the Adobe Flex 3 release cycle, it may seem as if there hasn't been an update since Beta 1 was released back in June. However, there are nightly builds of the Flex 3 (aka Moxie) SDK and compiler module available for download. Furt... Flex Technology Adobe Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:25:00 -0400 http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/9/6/flex-3-and-2-nightly-builds-available http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/8/9/come-see-us-flex360 Wow, so I've totally sucked with posting lately, but I guess that's the life of a consultant -- you're easy really busy or unbelievably slammed with work! Anyway, I wanted to make sure that, if you're attending the Flex 360 conference next week in... Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:10:00 -0400 http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/8/9/come-see-us-flex360 http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/6/10/birthday-30 Well, it happened. At 12:30 am this morning I had no choice but to turn 30 years old. I have decided that while I'm in this decade transition period that my age will now be "formerly 29" until I get used to the idea. It's all good though -- my body c... Personal Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:10:00 -0400 http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/6/10/birthday-30 http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/6/8/straight-from-boss-work-cynergy So this is one of those posts that is blatant shilling for my company. While I try and stay away from doing that (hence I maintain my own blog), Carson's post yesterday can't be emphasized enough: the RIA industry's boom is our gain and has us on the... Cynergy Systems Marketing Flex Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:15:00 -0400 http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/6/8/straight-from-boss-work-cynergy http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/5/29/adobe-flex-hotfix-livecycle-data-services-available Adobe released Hotfix 2 for Adobe Flex 2.0.1 and an update to the now re-named LiveCycle Data Services on Friday afternoon for immediate download. Of particular interest in this hotfix are a couple of fixes specifically for memory leaks in high-use c... Frameworks Flex Technology Adobe Tue, 29 May 2007 10:10:00 -0400 http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/5/29/adobe-flex-hotfix-livecycle-data-services-available http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/4/19/why-silverlight-important-announcement-adobe-flex There's been a big discussion over the last few days across mailing lists and blogs about the impact of Microsoft's Silverlight announcement. The loyalists from both the Microsoft and the Adobe developer camps have come out of their respective wood w... Cynergy Systems Frameworks Marketing Microsoft Flex Technology Adobe Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:15:00 -0400 http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/4/19/why-silverlight-important-announcement-adobe-flex http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/4/16/couple-issues-latest-adobe-flash-player-release So Adobe quietly released an update to the Flash Player late last week on April 12th. Funny enough, I only knew about it because a co-worker of mine was prompted to upgrade his Flash Player when he went to run an application. However, I've come acros... Flex Technology Adobe Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:05:00 -0400 http://www.cbetta.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/4/16/couple-issues-latest-adobe-flash-player-release