I always wanted to have a good personal diary application, but the freeware applications available do not satisfy my requirements. So I decided to write my own using AIR. However, I haven’t really worked that much with DATE columns in SQLite. And had some problems in inserting dates and retrieving them from the db. So [...]
Now, I’m gathering blogs that write about Flex, Flash, Actionscript and other Flex/Flash related technologies. Here is is what I found so far… http://feeds.adobe.com - Adobe Feeds http://www.riapedia.com - RIApedia http://www.flexer.info - Flexer http://www.flex.org/ - Flex.org http://www.onflex.org/ - Ted on Flex http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/ - Flex Team http://www.jamesward.com/wordpress/ - James Ward http://blog.everythingflex.com/ - EverythingFlex http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/ - Mike Chambers http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/ - Ryan Stewart http://www.forta.com/blog/ - Ben Forta http://coenraets.org/blog/ - Christophe Coenraets http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/ [...]
Following on from the news that Cairngorm has been moved to Adobe Open Source, it is my pleasure to announce that FlexUnit, the unit testing framework for Flex applications, now has a new home on Adobe Open Source. FlexUnit...
On 18th of August Matt Chotin announce the availability of Flex Builder 3.0.1 Update which includes Flex SDK 3.1. This is what it contains: bug fixes (jira list here) support for Flash Player 10 - just base support support for AIR 1.1 support for Eclipse 3.4 You can update your Flex Builder 3 by selecting Search for Flex Builder Updates… [...]
I'm glad to announce that I'll be part of the FlexCamp London next week (28th August). The agenda of the event looks damned cool and the speakers are a a warrantee of quality: Andrew Shorten, Mike Jones, Peter Elst and...
This is my contribute to your excellent and funny job Jeremy ;) Have a look at this cool Flex Gangsta Rap ! I'm sure you're having fun at 360Flex San Jose ;)
Intuit has been using Flex in some very exciting ways recently. One of those is to use Flex as a developer SDK for QuickBase. This allows developers to easily build a great user interface on top of the solid and in-the-cloud back-end of QuickBase. You can find out more about this in [...]
Bruce Eckel and I have been working on a new Flex book aimed at those totally new to Flex. It will be very short (about 140 pages) and provide just the right information to get someone started with Flex. The book will be called “First Steps in Flex” and should be available soon. If [...]
Listen to the Flex Show interview with Bruce Eckel and me. Then let me know what you think.
So, Cairngorm has been on Adobe Open Source for over one week now, and I thought I'd summarize what's happened since. It has been interesting to watch the community response to my announcement. To Adobe Consulting, this was a move...
or depending how you see it, using flex as a force.com application front end. Either way salesforce is one of the PaaS (platform as a service) providers, that sees in Flex the technology for adding rich user interfaces to its applications. As we’ll have the chance to point out in numerous occasions, RIA’s and SaaS (software [...]
Adobe is putting more and more attention to the open source. And now it's the turn of the Cairngorm micro architecture for Flex development. I'm a user of Cairngorm since the beginning so it's great to see that Cairngorm's source code is available in a subversion repository and with a JIRA bugbase.
  We have finally reached the momentous day. Sports buffs across the world will be breaking their heads to keep track of all their favorite events and results. I wish that by the next Olympics they can all have access to their versions of Olimpics.cat. Featured as the App of the Week in Adobe Flextv’s first episode, Olimpics.cat [...]

If you need to access the Flex component that a skin belongs to, you need to know that the skin's parent is the component that you're skinning. So you can access properties of the component through the skin's parent (N.B. Don't do this in the constructor – the skin isn't added to the component's display list until after the constructor has run)...

I have had a few people ask how to read the users IPAddress from within Flash. The way I do this is to use my application server to write the IPAddress into a flash var which I then read from flash. This is obviously open to spoofing if the user wants to play games as [...]
Few days ago I found out about Adobe TV website which you may already know about. This site is about Adobe’s technologies explained using videos. Photographers, designers, video professionals and developers can use this to learn about Adobe’s products and technologies. There are lots and lots of presentations and tutorials regarding Flex, AIR, LiveCycle and [...]
Flex In A Week is an online Flex training course. To date there are three days of content posted, made up of over 20 videos and 10 exercises, and more content to follow. And it's all free for the browsing.

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