Web Development Services
I am an independent web contractor who specializes in developing Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). I provide consulting and development services to clients throughout North America. Working closely with my clients and development teams, demanding projects get done on time and on budget.
What can a single developer do you ask? Plenty, when motivated, challenged and most importantly, provided with the right opportunities. I bring a wealth of experience and expertise in Flash/Flex development, server side technologies and client-server integration. If your project needs a ground breaking front end and a rock solid back end, you need someone who understands both sides of the equation.
The services I provide:
- Flash application and web site development
- Flex and AIR Rich Internet Applications
- Server side coding and development
- Application planning, architecture, and development
- Integration with backend systems and databases
- Developer mentoring
If any of my services are of interest to you, please contact me.
Feb 02, 2010 . Comments (0)
I just read a very interesting post titled "How Apple Will Destroy The Web". How's that for an attention grabber? The author makes some very valid and interesting points, however there were two paragraphs that literally jumped off the page at me.
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Jan 31, 2010 . Comments (5)
With Apple's announcement of the iPad and the subsequent storm about it not supporting Flash a lot has been written about Flash's demise. People are pointing to Apple's decision to not provide Flash support in the iPad and iPhone as a sure indicator that Flash's days must surely be numbered. As a freelance Flex developer, Flash (Flex) is my bread and butter, it literally puts food on my table so I have a vested interest in what happens with Flash and it's continued use and adoption on the next generation of internet devices.
The release of the iPad seems to have polarized developers into one of two camps, traditional HTML/Javascript/open source purist developers who say Flash is going down for the count and the Flash development community and it's supporters who are screaming bloody murder at Apple, running around like the sky is falling since the iPad doesn't support Flash. I think both sides are missing something, the elephant in the room that a few days of reflection has made very clear in my mind.
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Jan 12, 2010 . Comments (0)
If you use PHP with SimpleXml to parse xml you may run across a strange issue where SimpleXml fails to parse perfectly formatted xml. You'll likley get an error like this
Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]:
Entity: line 1: parser error : AttValue: " or ' expected
Chances are the PHP server has 'magic quotes' turned on. To get around the issue, add a strip slashes command to the xml string before parsing it. So your php would change from
$xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlstr);
to
$xml = simplexml_load_string(stripslashes($page));
Hope that helps someone, frustrating bug to track down.
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