The next generation of software engineering won't happen inside a chat
Code generation is abundant. Durable intent, responsibility, review, evidence, and release authority are not—and a chat cannot hold them together on its own.
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I spent hours specifying a feature with agents — and ended up changing the requirement
A practical way to use coding agents as specification interviewers, expose consequential unknowns, and change bad decisions before they become code.
Read articleHow I migrated WordPress to a static site with agents
How I replaced WordPress with static pages, a simple agent-assisted editorial workflow, and a few focused Cloudflare services.
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The High Individual Contributor in the Age of AI Agents
How senior individual contributors can use AI agents to expand execution capacity while retaining judgment, ownership, and system-level thinking.
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The Ifless Principle: Designing APIs Without Hidden Decisions
A practical API design principle: replace methods that hide branching decisions with explicit operations that clarify intent, behavior, and tests.
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Nine Women Can't Make One Baby: Why Smaller Software Teams Deliver More
Why adding developers can delay complex software projects—and how small, focused teams reduce coordination costs and preserve ownership.
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“Integrating Flex with Java Using BlazeDS” in Java Magazine 72
Announcement of a practical article on integrating Adobe Flex and Java through BlazeDS services, published in Java Magazine 72.
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“Quality Interfaces with Flex” in Java Magazine 68
Announcement of an article on ActionScript, Java, data consumption, and Flex applications for web and desktop in Java Magazine 68.
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Flex: A Simple Chat in Fewer Than 20 Lines
A historical messaging tutorial with Adobe Flex and BlazeDS; part of the original source code was missing from the WordPress export.
Read articleWhy Flex? Why AIR?
A historical selection of lighthearted videos about Adobe Flex and AIR, originally published in April 2008.
Read articleFlex Brazil Manifesto
A catalog of Rodrigo Fraga's technical contributions to the Brazilian Adobe Flex community through March 2008.
Read articleIntegrating Flex, BlazeDS, Spring, and Hibernate — Part 2
Part two: Spring-managed services, a BlazeDS bean factory, declarative transactions, and Hibernate persistence.
Read articleIntegrating Flex, BlazeDS, Spring, and Hibernate — Part 1
Part one of a historical open-source web architecture tutorial using Adobe Flex, BlazeDS, Spring Framework, and Hibernate.
Read articleAn Adobe Flex Forum
The 2008 announcement of FlexBrasil, a phpBB forum created for beginners and professionals in the Adobe Flex community.
Read articleCriticism Through Comedy
A short 2008 recommendation of a comedy video discovered on the former AtomFilms service.
Read articleArchitecture with Adobe Flex, PHP, and Zend Framework
A layered contact-form example using Flex, PHP, Zend Framework, and AMFPHP with explicit data-transfer objects.
Read articleI Can Still Play Counter-Strike
A lighthearted 2007 record of returning to Counter-Strike after two years away from the game.
Read articleWorking with CSS in Adobe Flex Builder 3
A historical tutorial on creating, applying, and visually editing CSS styles in Adobe Flex Builder 3 projects.
Read articleLaunching My Labs
A 2007 announcement of an experimental area for web prototypes and projects; the original addresses are no longer available.
Read articleAdobe Celebrates 25 Years of Innovation
A record of Adobe's 25th anniversary in 2007 and the history video and timeline published by the company.
Read articleAdobe Flex: Standardizing Your Code
Historical references and 2007 recommendations for code conventions in Adobe Flex and ActionScript projects.
Read articleAdobe Flash Player with Google Toolbar?
A 2007 observation about the optional Google Toolbar offer in the Adobe Flash Player installer for Windows.
Read articleModularizing Applications with Modules and Flex Builder 3
How large Adobe Flex applications used on-demand modules configured and loaded through Flex Builder 3.
Read articleUploading Files with Flex, PHP, and Java
A historical file-upload example in Adobe Flex using FileReference, with server-side destinations in PHP and Java.
Read articlePublishing Code in WordPress 2.3.1
A 2007 record of configuring syntax highlighting in WordPress 2.3.1 with the iG:Syntax Hiliter plugin.
Read articleHello, Everyone!
The short welcome message that marked the launch of this version of the blog in December 2007.
Read articleHow Was Adobe Flex Doing in Brazil in 2007?
The announcement of FlexCenso, an initiative created to map the Adobe Flex developer community and job market in Brazil.
Read articleA Bug in Google?
A curiosity found in 2007 while searching Google for unusual number sequences and comparing the results it returned.
Read articleHow to Present Adobe Flex to Your Team
Historical arguments, originally written in 2007, for adopting Adobe Flex 2 in rich web applications for the enterprise.
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