Open Source

23 Jan 2008

Ebay Flex Contest

Doug McCune is reporting that there is a clause in the Widget Design Challenge 2008 contest being run by eBay that bars entrants from using open source libraries in their entries.

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eBay, please allow open source in your Flash/Flex contest

14 Dec 2007

The reports of SWX's death have been greatly exaggerated. Well, OK, the one report, that is.

I'm referring to the blog post by David Arno that asks Has Adobe just killed SWX?

David's post refers to the recent opening of the AMF format (good one, Adobe, and about time, I'd say) and the open source release of BlazeDS.

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No, Adobe has not just killed SWX :)

11 Sep 2007

SWX PHP 1.0 and SWX ActionScript Library 1.0 Release Announcement

It's my great pleasure to announce that after six months of alphas and betas, SWX PHP 1.0 and SWX ActionScript Library 1.0 are now available for download.

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SWX PHP and SWX ActionScript Library Version 1.0 Released

3 Sep 2007

I just released Release Candidate 1 of SWX PHP and the SWX ActionScript Library over at swxformat.org. You can download them on the SWX download page.

The newly-released components include:

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SWX PHP and SWX ActionScript Library Release Candidate 1 Released

17 Aug 2007

Swx Flickr Tutorial Moo Card

What do you mean, "where's the tutorial?" It's in the photo of my new SWX Moo card, above! :)

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New SWX Tutorial: How to get the list of 100 most recent Flickr photos into Flash with SWX RPC.