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David Tucker

Biography

David Tucker is a software engineer with Universal Mind where he focuses on Flex and AIR application. In addition, he is an avid blogger and writes primarily about Adobe AIR, Flash, Flex, and ColdFusion at davidtucker.net. David is the author of the Lynda.com series, AIR For Flash Developers, and he is also the lead author of the upcoming O'Reilly publication, The Adobe AIR Cookbook. When he isn't staring at a computer screen he loves to play guitar and experiment with audio recording.

Books

Blog

Interview with the JavaFX Team

August 27 2008

I recently had the chance to chat with JavaFX team members Josh Marinacci and Jacob Lehrbaum on a conference call. I had the chance to ask them all of the questions that you guys submitted here on the site. The interview is 25 minutes and the guys cover everything from the… read more

The Weekly RIA Round-Up for August 23

August 23 2008

This week saw a Flex refresh, JavaScript's jump to light speed, a comment battle on Flex and Silverlight, a look at Project Nile, and some great tips on getting started with Silverlight. read more

The Weekly RIA Round-Up for August 16

August 17 2008

This week brought the death of ECMAScript 4 as we know it, a preview release of YUI 3, a behind the scenes look at NBC's online olympics coverage, and did we mention ECMAScript 4 (it was worth mentioning twice)? read more

The Weekly RIA Round-Up for August 9

August 10 2008

This week brought Silverlight's big opening ceremony, Curl jumps into Eclipse, Cairngorm goes open, mapping takes a giant leap forward with SpatialKey, and the first episode of the Open Web podcast. read more

JavaFX - Call for Questions

August 06 2008

Last week's release of the JavaFX Preview SDK brought a lot of buzz from all over the RIA landscape. There was a lot of good information, and many people admitted they still didn't know a great deal about JavaFX. So, here is your chance. We are going to compile a… read more

The Weekly RIA Round-Up for August 2

August 03 2008

The week on the Weekly RIA Round-Up we bring a new competitor to the RIA lineup with JavaFX, Silverlight counts down the days until its big show, Adobe lends Zend a helping hand, a collection of Silverlight tutorials are released, and OpenLaszlo connects with Netbeans. read more

What is the JavaFX Preview SDK

July 31 2008

JavaFX launched their technical preview today. I had the privilege to talk earlier this week with Joshua Marinacci one of the engineers working on JavaFX. I learned that the preview SDK that was released today is just a piece of the overall JavaFX puzzle. read more

The Weekly RIA Round-Up for July 26

July 26 2008

This week we saw an S3 outage that crippled many web applications, a new foundation to keep data open, OSCON 2008, Silverlight flexes its gaming credentials, and Desktop Keeley breaking some records. read more

Next Generation RIA: Digimix

July 22 2008

I had a chance several weeks ago to sit down with Digimix creator, Alan Queen, and discuss the RIA that he has been developing. I had seen an earlier version of DigiMix at the Adobe onAir Bus Tour in Atlanta, and I was amazed at the progress that has been… read more

Flypaper Pro Launches the Presentation Dashboard

July 22 2008

I had a chance today to chat with the people at Flypaper about the new Pro version that is being released today. If you haven't heard of Flypaper it is an application and player that allows you to create interactive presentations with their desktop authoring application and then easily publish… read more

The Weekly RIA Round-Up for July 19

July 19 2008

This week Radiohead captivated the online community, the Flex 4 SDK gets its first public build, Bruce Eckel questions Sun's UI credentials, and an Adobe Evangelist compares Flex and Silverlight. All this and more on the Weekly RIA Round-Up. read more

New AIR Resource for Flash Developers

July 14 2008

My recent Lynda.com series, AIR for Flash Developers, was recently released in the Lynda.com Online Training Library. In this series, I cover most all of the AIR API and how to integrate it with your Flash files. As I stated on my blog, this series is not for everyone. It… read more

The Weekly RIA Round-Up for July 12

July 13 2008

Another week has passed in the RIA community, and with it - a lot of news. I will cover items such as the launch of Lively, the future of Facebook as an RIA platform, Silverlight and Flash video codecs, and a lot more. Also, this week you now have the… read more

The Weekly RIA Round-Up

July 05 2008

Today starts what will be a weekly column here at InsideRIA.com. I will be examining all of the blog posts that I read over the week - and bringing out the highlights in all of the different RIA communities. Obviously, I won't be able to highlight everything - so, we… read more

Why I Purchased an Adobe ColdFusion License

July 01 2008

The past few months have brought about a lot of debate in the ColdFusion community, and I have been listening. Why? Well, I knew that I was going to need to deploy a CFML server for a project. The recent announcements meant that I needed to reconsider all of the… read more
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