Re: [flexcoders] Re: Apollo features

2007-02-06 Thread Shannon Hicks
What about a poor-man's 100% availability :) Servers down? Site got Dugg? No problem :) Shan Jeffry Houser wrote: I'll just throw this out there. One of my clams (somewhere in this thread) was The only time you aren't connected is in an airplane. Every airport I've been in recently

[flexcoders] Re: Apollo features

2007-02-06 Thread thegators_2002
My clients have lots of situations where they need to work disconnected. It's a very large and diverse group. There is flying in airplane as has been mentioned. There is working at home, where they may have cable, dial-up, or nothing at all, but they certainly are NOT allowed to VPN in to the

[flexcoders] Re: Apollo features

2007-02-05 Thread Dogg, Scooby
Apollo Coders list. Where is this list? I want in! -Scott --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jeffry Houser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:10 AM 2/4/2007, you wrote: Many users are still disconnected. Nomad users are still common place. Most sales people are getting out o the road in

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Apollo features

2007-02-05 Thread Jeffry Houser
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/apollocoders/ At 10:01 AM 2/5/2007, you wrote: Apollo Coders list. Where is this list? I want in! -Scott -- Jeffry Houser, Software Developer, Writer, Songwriter, Recording Engineer AIM: Reboog711 | Phone: 1-203-379-0773 -- My Company:

[flexcoders] Re: Apollo features

2007-02-05 Thread maunger
At one point about 2 years ago, i was asked to develop a simple CF app that helped managers write some 'weekly status reports' that were rolled up to upper management and then some of those items were rolled up even further up the tree etc. it died a miserable death after a while because many

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Apollo features

2007-02-05 Thread Jeffry Houser
I'll just throw this out there. One of my clams (somewhere in this thread) was The only time you aren't connected is in an airplane. Every airport I've been in recently has had wi-fi. I assume this is becoming standard. I think Adobe is shelling out a lot of effort just for the sake of

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Apollo features

2007-02-05 Thread slangeberg
Sorry if i missed first half of thread, but isn't the point to create desktop apps - whether online or not? You should see a significant performance increase, if your app is resource intensive, and you will gain access to the filesystem, without using sketchy third-party systems or .NET wrappers.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Apollo features

2007-02-05 Thread Jeffry Houser
I meant to say I doubt Adobe is shelling out a lot of effort just for the sake of providing people the ability to work in an airplane At 12:26 PM 2/5/2007, you wrote: I'll just throw this out there. One of my clams (somewhere in this thread) was The only time you aren't connected is in

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Apollo features

2007-02-05 Thread Troy Gilbert
I think its pretty clear what Adobe is aiming for with Apollo... they're wanting to strike at Microsoft's .NET suite (in the same way that MS is striking at Adobe's suite with WPF/E and Expression). But instead of taking C++ and Java coders and moving them closer to the web (MS with .NET), Adobe

[flexcoders] Re: Apollo features

2007-01-30 Thread red_shovel
If it does make it, that would be fantastic. We are building an IPMI utility and .dll / .so access and the ability to call lower level apis would be critical. I just need to convince my colleagues that Apollo is the way to go! --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Mike Chambers [EMAIL