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Looking for Colleagues

Sébastien — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:09:55 +0000

As a freelance software developer, I’m currently working for a small but excellent company called Vivansa. We develop products and offer consulting services for the eCustoms sector, working closely with the European Commission and with national customs administrations as well as economic operators. And from a technological standpoint, we’re doing everything the SOA way. But [...]

Adobe, SpringSource, Please Help us with Grails/Flex integration

Sébastien — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:47:59 +0000

I’ve been using Grails extensively for a year or so, and I love it, I really do. I even wrote a couple of plugins for it, including one for integrating Grails with Apple Push Notification Service. But since I’m always looking for productive ways to develop, I always thought that Grails and Flex were the [...]

Apple Store: The Worst (Non-) Buying Experience Ever!

Sébastien — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:22:31 +0000

I feel like I’m just waking up from an awful nightmare. Actually “waking up” might not be the right expression since I haven’t slept in 30 hours but you get my point. Let me tell you my little story. 2 years ago, when the iPhone 3G came out in Belgium, I had been waiting for [...]

WWDC 2010 Review

Sébastien — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:50:11 +0000

Still one session to attend about closures in Objective-C, and I’ll call it a week. A little bit of shopping this afternoon in order to spend my last dollars and I’ll be ready for take-off tomorrow afternoon. So it’s time for a little summary of this week. Overall, it was my first WWDC and I’m [...]

Grails/BlazeDS/Flex/iPhone Full Stack Part 2/3

Sébastien — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:52:35 +0000

In the previous episode, we built a simple Grails backend for the todolist application. In this installment, we will create a simple Flex 4 front-end for this backend. The following assumes that you have already installed Flash Builder 4 (formerly known as Flex Builder), either in standalone mode or as an Eclipse plug-in. Part 2: [...]

Grails/BlazeDS/Flex/iPhone Full Stack Part1/3

Sébastien — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:19:06 +0000

A couple of years ago, I published an article on this blog entitled "Flex, Spring and BlazeDS: the full stack!" and this article became very popular. Actually it broke my daily visits record. Today I'm gonna try to break this record again.

Presentations

Sébastien — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:14:27 +0000

Just a quick note about past and future talks. Yesterday evening, I gave a presentation at Brussels’ Café Numérique to set a few facts straight about Flash and try to stop th FUD madness. It was very funny trolling in live. Excellent atmosphere. If you’re a Belgian geek (or you don’t want to be afraid [...]

betRway is Back!

Sébastien — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:42:07 +0000

To all my French-speaking readers… A tous mes lecteurs francophones, je viens de relancer le projet betRway avec un nouveau post sur betRway.com. N’hésitez pas à aller y faire un tour, à laisser vos commentaires et à bookmarker le site. Vous pouvez aussi suivre le projet sur Twitter.

The Real Reasons Behind the Flash Debate

Sébastien — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:07:44 +0000

In my humble opinion, the main reason why the debate around Flash versus HTML5 (and Adobe versus Apple) has gone haywire during the past few weeks is that everyone is lying about their true motives (like in any apparently inextricable conflict): Apple doesn’t want Flash on its closed devices like the iPhone, iPod Touch and [...]

Grails BlazeDS 4 Integration Plugin

Sébastien — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:55:22 +0000

One of the main goals I’ve been pursuing for a few months is the integration of Grails with Flex 4. I need to rework ConferenceGuide‘s administration backend to make it more ergonomic so that we can cover more events, and ever since I discovered Flex 4 niceties, I couldn’t think of doing that with anything [...]