New “Flex in a Week” Training Videos Now Available

10/13/2008 01:17 am in Adobe Flex

The Adobe Developer Connection just added more videos to the “Flex in a Week” series. New Topics - Adding Visual Appeal: Implementing Navigator Containers Embedding Images Embedding Fonts Creating Constraint-based Layouts Applying Styles to MXML Components Skinning Flex Components with with Adobe CS3 Creating New States Animating with Behaviors and Transitions Drawing Shapes with the Drawing API Skinning Components Programmatically Extending Components Here is a quick copy/paste of [...]

Free Chapters of Learning Flex

10/09/2008 10:32 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe Flex

Download two chapters of “Learning Flex 3″ - Applying visual effects and styling applications

10/07/2008 03:12 am in Adobe Flex

Today on the Flex Developer Center, two chapters of the book Learning Flex 3 were made available for download. This is the first time I’ve looked at this particular Flex book and I have to say, I’m impressed. It’s highly illustrated (in vivid color) and seems very well organized. I just ordered mine! You can download [...]

Learning Flex 15 Minutes at a Time

10/05/2008 04:44 am in Adobe Flex

I’ve discovered another great source of videos for those learning Flex. Jeffry Houser, producer of The Flex Show, has an ongoing video series titled, “Fifteen Minutes With Flex“. The following episodes are available now: Episode 1 - Setting Up a Flex Project Episode 2 - Using the Flex Debugger Episode 3 - Understanding Data Binding Episode 4 - Creating [...]

4 More Flex Videos from 360Flex San Jose 2008 added

09/12/2008 03:09 pm in Adobe Flex

I just added 4 additional video links to my previous article titled, “21 Flex Videos from 360Flex San Jose 2008” bringing it to a total of 25 videos. Below are the additions: Advanced State management by Troy Gardner - Cogs is a heirarchical statemachine library for use with AS3.0 projects. Reflective Programming by Eric Ko - This [...]

Jibidee.com Launches - Fantastic UI - Online organizer, mini-documents, list management, etc.

09/10/2008 04:01 am in Adobe Flex

Allen Clary and other friends of mine here in Tampa today launched Jibidee.com at the Techcrunch50 Conference. As you can see in their Techcrunch profile, the site is built using Adobe Flex (which I’ll take partial credit for ) The site has one of the most beautiful UIs you’ll find anywhere. In addition [...]

The JSONObject class: For reading and writing JSON in ActionScript

08/25/2008 12:37 pm by Manish Jethani in Adobe Flex

Back in February while working on an AIR application, I found myself dealing with a lot of JSON data in ActionScript. I was using the corelib library for parsing and generating JSON objects. It was all good until I realized I could improve it even further. While the JSON class does its job perfectly well, it [...]

Bringing together Flex, J2EE, PDF and BPM - Flex Developer’s Journal Article

08/19/2008 06:26 pm in Adobe Flex

Yakov Fain, managing principal of Farata Systems, recently wrote a great article on Adobe LiveCycle ES (Enterprise Suite) where he discusses LCES, Flex, PDFs, Rights Management, creating processes, etc. Article: LiveCycle ES 8.2 is a solid platform for business process management It’s great to see an article spanning all of these products as a single solution! If [...]

My favourite new features in Flash Player 10 (beta)

08/19/2008 01:52 am by Manish Jethani in Adobe Flex

In a recent article on Adobe Developer Center, Justin Everett-Church explains some of the new features in Flash Player 10 “Astro” (beta). If you have any investment in the Flash platform, you should definitely check out those videos. Here are my favourite features from this release: 3D effects Custom filters and effects (Pixel Bender) GPU mode Enhanced sound APIs unloadAndStop Limited full-screen [...]

Intuit’s flexy PaaS

08/14/2008 05:20 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe Flex

Intuit, better known for its accounting software, is one of the latest entrants in the PaaS, ecosystem. It recently launched its Quickbase developer program, currently running in closed beta. What’s particularly interesting about it, is that it is based in Adobe Flex, as we shall see. Of course, looking to assess the various PaaS offerings out [...]

The Survey, 2008: For people who make websites

08/04/2008 06:12 am by Manish Jethani in Adobe Flex

A List Apart have launched their survey for 2008. If you’re in the business of making websites, you should consider taking it.

Where is FSVideoDisplay.as?

08/01/2008 06:03 am by Manish Jethani in Adobe Flex

Someone wrote to ask of the whereabouts of the FSVideoDisplay.as file, the source code to a component I had written back in October 2006. The FSVideoDisplay component was based on Flex 2’s VideoDisplay (also by yours truly), with one additional property, displayState, which could be set to "fullScreen" to set the component into full-screen mode, [...]

Using weak references in ActionScript 3

07/31/2008 06:08 am by Manish Jethani in Adobe Flex

Sometimes you want to keep a weak reference to an object. i.e. you don’t really care if the object is garbage collected, and you don’t want to be the one keeping it from being so, while at the same time you’d like to access it while it’s available. Here’s a simple class for doing this in ActionScript 3: public class [...]

5+ hours of free Flex training videos now online…

07/30/2008 06:09 pm in Adobe Flex

The Adobe Developer Connection now has over 5 hours of Flex training videos available for viewing and even more videos coming soon! Here is a quick copy/paste of available videos: Comparing Flash, Flex, Flash Player and AIR; Introducing Flex Builder; Creating a Flex Builder workspace and project; Using pre-built Flex controls; Understanding MXML; Binding data between [...]

Have you seen Flex.org this week?

07/29/2008 05:43 am in Adobe Flex

Flex.org has been upgraded to a new look with new features, many of which are community focused. If you are new to Flex.org, don’t miss the Flex showcase! More information about the new features can be found at http://www.flex888.com/732/the-new-flexorg.html The menu bar across says a lot about the new features [...]

Major bug in Firefox 3 on Mac OS X 4.1 Tiger: Flash applications fail to receive mouse motion events (e.g. mouseMove) while in full-screen mode

07/26/2008 04:25 pm by Manish Jethani in Adobe Flex

We noticed this problem while testing the Issuu document viewer on Firefox 3 on Mac OS X 4.1 Tiger: running under that environment, the application doesn’t seem to receive any mouse motion events, such as mouseMove, mouseOver, and mouseOut, while in full-screen mode. Naturally, my first instinct was to test other popular websites, like YouTube, and [...]

Flight Monitoring Demo Video

07/25/2008 06:12 pm in Adobe Flex

This is a video of a prototype I put together a while back. It is a system to monitor incoming airline flight information that I wrote using Livecycle Data Services and UI components I scavenged and modified from the Flex Interface Guide site and the Network Monitor demo. Incoming JMS messages containing flight [...]

A suggested Cairngorm based modular architecture

07/17/2008 04:50 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe Flex

There have been a few discussions around after Flex 2.01 introduced the concept of modules, about issues with using modular architecture along with Cairngorm framework. I will not address here problems arising from using singletons along a shell and loaded modules (as done here), but rather present a way to integrate a Cairngorm based shell [...]

A suggested Cairngorm based modular architecture

07/17/2008 04:50 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe Flex

There have been a few discussions around after Flex 2.01 introduced the concept of modules, about issues with using modular architecture along with Cairngorm framework. I will not address here problems arising from using singletons along a shell and loaded modules (as done here), but rather present a way to integrate a Cairngorm based shell [...]

Custom Component with Degrafa Skinning

07/15/2008 07:15 am in Adobe Flex

This demo shows my initial attempt at using Degrafa skinning. I wanted to customize the tiles in the list so that they would look unique and also provide a nifty way of displaying a list of options for the selected tile. You can see the result by clicking on the lower right corner [...]

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New “Flex in a Week” Training Videos Now Available

Free Chapters of Learning Flex

Download two chapters of “Learning Flex 3″ - Applying visual effects and styling applications

Learning Flex 15 Minutes at a Time

4 More Flex Videos from 360Flex San Jose 2008 added

Jibidee.com Launches - Fantastic UI - Online organizer, mini-documents, list management, etc.

The JSONObject class: For reading and writing JSON in ActionScript

Bringing together Flex, J2EE, PDF and BPM - Flex Developer’s Journal Article

My favourite new features in Flash Player 10 (beta)

Intuit’s flexy PaaS

The Survey, 2008: For people who make websites

Where is FSVideoDisplay.as?

Using weak references in ActionScript 3

5+ hours of free Flex training videos now online…

Have you seen Flex.org this week?

Major bug in Firefox 3 on Mac OS X 4.1 Tiger: Flash applications fail to receive mouse motion events (e.g. mouseMove) while in full-screen mode

Flight Monitoring Demo Video

A suggested Cairngorm based modular architecture

A suggested Cairngorm based modular architecture

Custom Component with Degrafa Skinning

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