James Ward - RIA Cowboy

I’ve gone commercial. Kinda. I just bought jamesward.com and it is now my primary domain name instead of jamesward.org. I liked the .org URL but it’s a less familiar URL to non-geeks. You say .com and everyone knows what you mean. The .org will still work - redirects right to here.

So I’m a sell-out. Gone .com. Good news is that you still won’t see any ads on my site.

Let me know if you have any problems with the new domain.

InfoQ.com has posted an old interview I did with Jon Rose at their QCon SF 2007 conference. In this slightly dated interview I talk about the usual Flex, Adobe AIR, and RIA topics. Makes me wish I still had my beard. Gosh I was sexy. ;)

One of the “problems” with using Flex so much is that I get used to having a simple, predictable layout mechanism. I seem to have forgotten how to do just about anything in HTML. So can someone help me fix the Digg, Reddit, and Share This stuff below? I’ve tried and tried and can’t figure out how to get the dang things to align correctly. Ideally they would align to the bottom of a div or something. Gosh it’s really embarrassing admitting publicly that I can’t do HTML anymore. But since you have already seen how bad this blog looks, you probably already guessed that. :) Oh well. Please help.

Yesterday was an exciting day! Bruce Eckel and I hosted an eSeminar about Flex & Java. We had a few technical difficulties, but overall it was very good. You can watch the recording here:
https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a227210/p16565134/

Bruce and I have a few more eSeminars coming up, find out more info here:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=462539&loc=en_us

Also yesterday the Open Source Buni Meldware Communication Suite joined the Java.net community. This is a great step forward for the project, which uses Flex for it’s Webmail client. More info from Andy Oliver:
http://blog.buni.org/blog/acoliver/meldware/2007/02/28/Meldware-joins-Java-net

And lastly, while at the Adobe Engage conference, I gained a Twitter addiction. Please help me indulge my addiction and add me as a friend:
http://twitter.com/jlward4th

I finally had time to finish my upgrade to WordPress. So hopefully I will be doing more blogging now. In case anyone else needs to migrate from plog to WordPress, you can download the really hacky php script I used. Oh if you received a comment approved email from me for a comment you posted long ago, I’m so sorry. I didn’t realize WordPress was going to do that.

-James