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OK, reposting this to a more permanent home...If you're interested in Flex and live near Orlando, there's an Adobe Users Group here that meets the first Monday of each month at DeVry. The meetings…Continue
Tags: Orlando, group, users, flex, adobe
Started by Greg Groves. Last reply by Matthew Zimmer Oct 7, 2009.
Fred Sells did this presentation for the OrlandoJUG. Here's the writeup and I'll attach the source code to this discussion so we can work through it. Stay tuned for the code!"Flex is a (mostly) open…Continue
Tags: Orlandojug, Fred Sells, turbogears, python, flex
Started by Michael Levin Feb 4, 2009.
I'm working my way through "First Steps in Flex", by Bruce Eckel and James Ward. So far, I'm on the "Item Renderers" chapter. Of course, at this point I am already thinking about how I'm going to…Continue
Tags: tutorial, flex, deployment, webservers, programming
Started by Michael Levin Feb 1, 2009.
"First Steps in Flex", by Bruce Eckel and James Ward is an intro to Flex. The nice thing about this book is that you can be…Continue
Tags: webdev, tutorial, programming, eckel, books
Started by Michael Levin Feb 1, 2009.
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Sarah Usher discusses the architectural "breaking point" where warehouses like BigQuery struggle with latency and cost. She explains the necessity of a conceptual data lifecycle (Raw, Curated, Use Case) to regain control over lineage and innovation. She shares practical strategies to design a single source of truth that empowers both ML teams and analytics without bottlenecking scale.
By Sarah Usher
The OpenJDK Amber project has published a new design note proposing “carrier classes” and “carrier interfaces” to extend record-style data modeling to more Java types. The proposal preserves concise state descriptions, derived methods, and pattern matching, while relaxing structural constraints that limit records.
By A N M Bazlur Rahman
Vercel has released Skills.sh, an open-source tool designed to provide AI agents with a standardized way to execute reusable actions, or skills, through the command line.
By Daniel Dominguez
Cursor has published Agent Trace, a draft open specification aimed at standardizing how AI-generated code is attributed in software projects. Released as a Request for Comments (RFC), the proposal defines a vendor-neutral format for recording AI contributions alongside human authorship in version-controlled codebases.
By Robert Krzaczyński
As systems grow, observability becomes harder to maintain and incidents harder to diagnose. Agentic observability layers AI on existing tools, starting in read-only mode to detect anomalies and summarize issues. Over time, agents add context, correlate signals, and automate low-risk tasks. This approach frees engineers to focus on analysis and judgment.
By Rohit Dhawan
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