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I’ve heard that there are a lot of online alternatives to Photoshop, like Picnik, Adobe Photoshop Express and Splashup. I have tried SUMO Paint now. The “Online Image Editor” is a very elaborate webapp using Flex.
I’ve experienced enough slow and neverending wait times and was pleasantly surprised by how fast SUMO Paint loads. And once [...]
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Group Fx{r} based on the need for communication among web developers, and try to support members as a means of quickly solving various problems or situations that require a technical answer, endorsed or based on experience from other virtual community and more.
This group is a [...]
So we all know people build some amazing things using ActionScript: it’s a flexible language that provides some syntactic sugar to make developer’s lives easier. That sugar, however, gives me, umm, toothaches, some of which I talked about already. So now, I’ll rant about some other idiosyncrasies of AS3 that make it an [...]
The Agile Chronicles is a set of articles documenting my experiences using an Agile process (Scrum) in software development on my current Flex project.
Part 1 - Stressful
Part 2 - Code Refactoring
Part 3 - Branch Workflow
Part 4 - POC, Strategy, and Design Challenges
Part 5 - Acceptance Criteria & Punting
Part 6 - Tools, Extra Merge Day, and Postponed Transitions
This [...]
Today I've moved my blog feed from FeedBurner to Google. With this, I am also closing my Flex-specific feed. If the title of my blog appears as Manish Jethani (flex) in your feed reader, you should unsubscribe and subscribe to the main feed here.
I am also introducing Google ads in my feed on an experimental [...]
Today I've moved my blog feed from FeedBurner to Google. With this, I am also closing my Flex-specific feed. If the title of my blog appears as Manish Jethani (flex) in your feed reader, you should unsubscribe and subscribe to the main feed here.
I am also introducing Google ads in my feed on an experimental [...]
Our last day at Max was like this. In the text bellow you can find news and interesting things that we considered that worth mentioning them here.
Using the Text Layout Framework (Justin Everett-Church)
new text engine parallel with the TextField engine
text blocks can contain: text, groups that can contain images
inline images with events
ligatures
for flash developers: download [...]
The second day at Adobe MAX was a full one. We attended at the following sessions and labs:
Developer best practices with Flex (James Polanco)
FXG exported by Fireworks, Illustrator and Flash Catalyst can be used in Flex
FXG based on SVG
Flex 4 new skinning architecture
Spark (is the official name of Gumbo)
Catalyst will integrate version control tools
Catalyst is [...]
The first day at MAX (yesterday, 01-12-2008)… Lots of people… about 1300! The biggest Adobe MAX in Europe until now.
We attended at the following sessions:
Opening General Session, the opening keynote
iPlayer by BBC (Anthony Rose)
Fiat Eco Drive (Rick Williams and Adam Creeger)
Herald Tribune Reader by New York Times (Ted Pattrick)
Adobe Wave
Tour de Flex
Cocomo and [...]
The Agile Chronicles is a set of articles documenting my experiences using an Agile process (Scrum) in software development on my current Flex project.
Part 1 - Stressful
Part 2 - Code Refactoring
Part 3 - Branch Workflow
Part 4 - POC, Strategy, and Design Challenges
Part 5 - Acceptance Criteria & Punting
Part 6 - Tools, Extra Merge Day, and [...]
Adobe has published a new page, Flex Learning Paths, to provide a useful way to get started with Flex according to your role:
The Agile Chronicles is a set of articles documenting my experiences using an Agile process (Scrum) in software development on my current Flex project.
Part 1 - Stressful
Part 2 - Code Refactoring
Part 3 - Branch Workflow
Part 4 - POC, Strategy, and Design Challenges
This entry is about creating proof of concepts that tackle challenging components in your [...]
If you were lucky enough to be at MAX this year, and even luckier to see the “Looking ahead to Flex Builder 4″ session, then you saw me demo ASDoc support in the next version of Flex Builder, code-named “Gumbo”. For everyone else, this feature is way too cool (and useful) not to know [...]
If you were lucky enough to be at MAX this year, and even luckier to see the “Looking ahead to Flex Builder 4″ session, then you saw me demo ASDoc support in the next version of Flex Builder, code-named “Gumbo”. For everyone else, this feature is way too cool (and useful) not to know [...]
If you were lucky enough to be at MAX this year, and even luckier to see the “Looking ahead to Flex Builder 4″ session, then you saw me demo ASDoc support in the next version of Flex Builder, code-named “Gumbo”. For everyone else, this feature is way too cool (and useful) not to know [...]
Tour de Flex is a desktop application for exploring Flex capabilities and resources, including the core Flex components, Adobe AIR and data integration, as well as a variety of third-party components, effects, skins, and more.
Tour de Flex has three primary purposes:
Provide non-Flex developers with a good overview of what is possible in Flex in a [...]
So the full documentation for Flex Builder extensibility is finally online.
This also means the JavaDoc for Code Model is online as well. Code Model is the engine that drives the language-aware features in Flex Builder and Flash Catalyst. We’ve tried to make sure the published APIs stay well documented, and I’m constantly moving more functionality into the [...]
Tomorrow at 3:30 at Adobe MAX 2008 there will be a session on building rich Internet applications in the cloud using Salesforce and Adobe Flex. They will even be giving away a new Macbook! The combination of Flex and Force.com (the platform side of Salesforce) is a fantastic way to build RIAs in [...]
Tomorrow at 3:30 at Adobe MAX 2008 there will be a session on building rich Internet applications in the cloud using Salesforce and Adobe Flex. They will even be giving away a new Macbook! The combination of Flex and Force.com (the platform side of Salesforce) is a fantastic way to build RIAs in [...]
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