Bart Guijt's Purpleware

What is Adobe Flex?
Adobe Flex is a RIA toolkit leveraging the Flash platform. The following parts make up Adobe Flex:

SDK: The Software Development Kit contains the compiler, utilities, classlibrary, sourcecode and documentation. The SDK is similar to the Java JDK, and most parts are released as Open Source.
Flash Player: This is the runtime environment. The [...]

Posted on November 10th, 2008 under English, Flex, Java, RIA. Comments: None

Zimbra is on my radar ever since I saw the first glimpse of their webmail application, already a few years ago. Recently I started my own business, registered my personal internet domain(s) and installed a Mac Mini for my server needs. An excellent opportunity to install Zimbra to serve my mail and calendars!

Posted on October 4th, 2008 under English, Howto, Mac OS X, Zimbra. Comments: None

The market for RIA toolkits is changing quickly – like three years ago we didn’t even know what it was, right now we are slapped around the ears with terms like Rich Content, Widgets, Realtime Ajax communication, Single-Page Interfaces and whatnot. A few years ago we were quite satisfied with Apache Struts and a bit [...]

Posted on September 5th, 2008 under English, Java, RIA. Comments: None

WordPress is supposed to be so easy to install, that this guide is not necessary at all – so why bother?
Sure, an initial setup doesn’t take more than 15 minutes to complete, no problem. However, if you configure your Permalinks to look more SEO-friendly (like, http://yoursite.com/blog/2008/08/20/my-posting/ instead of the default http://yoursite.com/?p=123) your WordPress setup could [...]

Posted on August 21st, 2008 under Apache, English, Howto, Mac OS X, SEO, WordPress. Comments: 5