Flexcover 0.50 is now available on Google Code. This version is a lot better than the previous release, which we called “experimental” for a reason! There are two really enormous improvements in Flexcover 0.50: Branch (or path) coverage: the new Flexcover compiler tracks all the conditions in your code that affect control flow, and counts how [...]
Everything is ready for the kickoff of Multi-Mania 2008. And Koen wrote that the conference is fully booked with more than 1000 regitered users ! This year we have over 30 speakers in 4 simultaneous tracks on topics like design, development, video, audio, 3D and game development and also have 3 workshops on Adobe AIR, Flex, Flash Media Server and Microsoft Silverlight.

In the previous articles I've outlined some alternatives to the standard practice of using a Singleton as the ModelLocator in Cairngorm. I've tried all three of the alternatives I outlined in a real project so here's a summary of my opinions about them and the standard singleton...

Ok I have to admit it. I'm a fan of NetBeans. And with the new features added on the recent next release, NetBeans 6.1 is nearer to AJAX and RIA development. The famous IDE introduced the support to JavaScript, PHP scripting language, support for embedded CSS and HTML. NetBeans TV has published an interesting webcast to show the new JavaScript Editor in NetBeans IDE 6.1
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I just presented an opening session at WebManiacs in D.C. in the magnificent auditorium at The Carnegie Institution. Less than a handful of those present had any experience with Data Services, and so I spent the bulk of the time on LCDS, BlazeDS, data management services, and more. If you have yet to tinker with Data Services, you may want to check out Christophe Coenraets' LCDS Test Drive and BlazeDS 30 Minute Test Drive.
The Flex Team added some awesome features to the Adobe Flex Developer Center. First of all the Flex Cookbook site has been re-skinned in order to improve the readibility of Flex 3 code.
The next stop of 360Flex will happen in San Jose on August 18 - 20. On the conference's site the session's schedule was published and as you can read on your own it looks excellent (as usual). You can download the 360Flex San Jose schedule from the site.
The first part of consulting is having the initial meeting with the client. Using the Consulting Process, you identify the client’s problem, and determine if you are capable of fixing it. Not currently being with a firm causes me to scout for work (pouring through a TON of emails and phone calls, not [...]
Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code-named “Astro,” has just been released on the Adobe labs website. The player has some neat new features including native support for 3D effects, GPU hardware acceleration as well as some overall visual performance improvements. Here are some of the new features in more detail. Taken from the Adobe Labs site.. 3D Effects - Easily [...]
One of the things I’ve been waiting to see is an AS3 API for google Maps to surface. Well on May 2nd the people over at the google’s Maps API Team finally released one! This API lets Flex developers embed Google Maps in Flash applications. The API provides a number of utilities for manipulating and adding [...]
Adobe Flash Player 10 (codename "Astro") can be downloaded from Adobe site following this link: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ New features: Hardware acceleration - flash player will use the GPU for some visual processing tasks Advanced Text Layout - a new engine for text layout (as you may know the old TextField has big problems when rendering text, htmlText and images) [...]
I’ve been looking around for a good icon resource like this and the good people at Ntt.cc have given me one. Lots of beautiful royalty free icons here to use in your Flex applications. They also did a post on the best free vector graphics that might come in handy as well. Icon Sets Vector Sets Enjoy!
See how users in different locations can utilize fields to complete forms. This article is another great example of enabling collaboration in a Flex application using the publish/subscribe messaging infrastructure of BlazeDS. Users in different locations can fill in forms “together” in a real-time and in-context collaboration session: changes made by one user are automatically reflected [...]
Just dropping a quick note to followers of Flexcover and the ongoing AS3 code coverage adventure. It’s been a super busy time at work for me, but I’ve found enough spare cycles to put together a working branch coverage feature. It’s pretty cool: instead of toting up the number of lines that were executed [...]
The informative, articulate and personable David Coletta will be speaking about Buzzword’s testing approach at the upcoming Boston Flex Users Group meeting on Tuesday, 5/13 at Adobe Newton’s offices. If you haven’t checked out David’s blog, The Joy Of Flex, well, you really should! He is a great developer and also a great [...]
So it’s amazing how much dust gets kicked up after we ship a product.  As soon as Flex Builder 3 went out the door, we immediately started working on Flex 4…new states syntax, improved components…a small project called Thermo:). And somewhere in there, we started scheming about what IDE features could throw into the next version of Flex Builder…and it’s [...]
Well in my last post I showed how it’s all connected, main component, view and controller class. Now I’m going to show how it should be used. And how easy you can style your buttons. In this example I only going to deal with the “presentation” layer. In the futher I will show more [...]
This post is as promised an example how you can make a button build on the OpenFlux - framework. This example was build for Flex 3. We are going to build that little simple button which is used in the MAC - dashboard, see image. It represents show and close more options just by [...]

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