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Payback’s a Queen! Nate got a special surprise in the middle of his session at 360|Flex. This should teach you a) don’t fuck with me and b) don’t do a presentation on your birthday. Happy birthday Nate! P.S. Apologies for the shaky camera work, there were plenty of other video cameras in the room recording (including the [...]

I have created a small file template for creating custom Event classes quickly and easily using IntelliJ IDEA. Simply go to Preferences > [IDE Settings] File Templates > Create a new template [click the + icon] > Name it i.e. ActionScript Event | Give it an extension i.e. as | enter the below script [...]

Following some feedback on my first release of ParticleLab 2.0, I decided to rebuild my node based user interface from the ground up. I feel the main issue with my original node based particle editor was the sheer size of the nodes meant navigating through the scenes was quite an unfriendly experience. To that end, I’ve stuck with the detail panel but added a node based UI for navigation and selection.This now offers an immediate view of the entire scene and illustrates the relationships between all the objects. Although the UI doesn’t yet allow users to create relationships, it can

Desktop or web applications written in Flex can currently display localized strings with relative ease (using tools such as data binding and the ResourceManager), but localizing an app involves more than just translating the strings: there are a number of…

What’s super great about Flash Catalyst is if you know how to import files into a program, can pick some choices from a pull down menu and click an export button you pretty much know how to use Flash Catalyst – no kidding it’s that easy to use and again, no coding!

Lately, some (okay, someone) have accused Flash of being a resource hog. And lots of others have jumped on the bandwagon, without actually having performed any real tests or gathered any real data. But Jan Ozer has been doing just that, and has posted all of the details online. Streaming Media has posted their summary as well.

My slides but not the code made it up on the 360Flex usb drive, I didn’t figure that out until today when I was giving my talk. So my talk at 360Flex in San Jose was called: OptimizeIt – Actionscript tips for iPhone games. It really is a bunch of Actionscript optimizations and some of the [...]

As promised, here are the slides for “Ouch! It hurts when i do that.” presentation first delivered at 360Flex San Jose, March 10th, 2010.

A batch of interviews from Day 2 of the 360 Flex conference in San Jose . Contact E-mail Jeffry and John Follow us on Twitter

In my new position at litl, we are using an extremely handy plugin for Eclipse and Flash Builder called Flex Formatter. One of the cool things about the plugin is that you can set it up to automatically format when you save a file, so your code will always conform to your company’s code style guidelines, [...]

After completing my preso at 360|Flex San Jose I realized how many people are having problems starting with Test Driven Development (TDD). I had many people walking up to me and telling me about their interest of starting using TDD and how it’s hard to get started. I decided to share my knowledge. [...]

All to often marketing rhetoric is mistaken for technical reality. One one hand we hear Steve Jobs tell the world that Flash does not work well on their devices and with the other hand he is making sure that it does not by denying Flash access to the ability that they retain for only their [...]

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What a conference! The talks where really awesome so far. Not exactly sure what I will attend today. I might attend “Optimize it! ActionScript Tips for iPhone Games” followed by “Adobe is from Mars, Microsoft is from Uranus: A View from the Client”. Then I will have to split early to catch a flight to Salt Lake City for the MountainWest RubyConf 2010. Optimize it! ActionScript Tips for iPhone Games Renaun Erickson Renaun is Plaform Evangelist for Adobe since last week. He will put up the slides and code on his blog later today. Many of the tips are good

I have just posted information about FlashCamp San Francisco, a free developer / designers event that we will be holding in the Adobe San Francisco Office on Friday night, April 16th. This will be similar to the other world wide FlashCamps going on this spring, with this event focusing on Flash Player 10.1, Flash CS5, [...]

I’ve been looking for an opportunity to take advantage of the new flash.desktop.NativeProcess class within AIR 2.0 and was fortunate enough to have a quick project fall [...]

ReadWriteWeb distills some results from a Streaming Media post about performance between Flash Player 10 and 10.1 and HTML5. In analyzing the results of the tests, Ozer determined that the key to better Flash performance was dependent upon whether or not it could access hardware acceleration. This feature, launched in Flash 10.1, allows the plugin to [...]

Responsible for coding, testing and analyzing application software. Supports existing business systems applications. Partners with business analysts to identify business needs and appropriate technical solutions. Responsible for designing and documenting technical requirements for business applications… Candidate Requirements: 3+ Years of ColdFusion and MS SQL experience, including T-SQL and stored procedures. Familiarity with ColdSpring, Flex, .NET, or JSP [...]

Via Vivek, a new article on the Adobe DevNet mobile section: Design tips for creating mobile RIAs. Alessandro

A new article posted in Adobe Devnet by Dave Zuverink on “Design tips for creating mobile RIAs”. He talks about the considerations and importance of Mobile RIA, how your app provides the most compelling experience possible to the user? and shared some of the great tips for achieving it. “The opportunities and limitations of the mobile experience [...]

Hi guys, I’ve just upgraded HFCD 3 to Release Candidate 2 and the official release is… “right around the corner”. I’ve also updated stopcoding.org. Please check it out. The installation guide and user guide are also available. Installation Guide: http://stopcoding.org/hfcd/doc/HFCD-3-Installation-Guide.pdf User Guide: http://stopcoding.org/hfcd/doc/HFCD-3-User-Guide.pdf HFCD 4 will remain in beta status, but I will start finalizing it when Flex 4 [...]

On Tuesday, I’ve attended a couple of panels and 2.5 sessions. The morning panel was titled “Principles of RIA” and was about bringing animation and effects to your RIA to make it more engaging. For some reason it didn’t get me excited as I have to deal with more prosaic issues on a daily basis. The next [...]

I am very excited to continue Cynergy’s tradition of pushing the limits of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and designing and building incredible software experiences by announcing the first ever Adobe Flex4 and Adobe Catalyst application seen in the wild. I…Read More

FlashMoto more and more wins the hearts of Internet users and Flash developers. Recently our advanced Flash content management system has been reviewed by Crazy Leaf Design Blog – a useful resource dedicated to all aspects of web technology and graphic design. It covers the freshest IT news and inspirational articles, quality tutorials and interesting [...]

Last evening while discussion with Rajesh I found that he is trying to build a Mobile based security application using VC++. This was an application that takes photo of a specific location at intervals and stores which can be viewed by an user while on the go using a typical mobile handset with GPRS. When [...]

Did you ever want to let your PDF files track themselves on their own? Without using the download link from your site? Well, it’s very easy todo when you use Flash with the Google Analytics AS3 API. We will embed an invisible Flash object into your PDF. So the flash object will do the tracking for [...]

At These Days a lot of the websites we build have a Flash or Flex interface with content being fed in via XML documents. That makes it really easy to deploy the same website in multiple languages. You just pass in a localised XML file and voila, you’ve got a localised site. Until [...]

Day 2 is here and gone. In this entry I’ll talk about some of the highlights of the talks I attended and good things I’ve learned during the presentations.

I was very happy to learn that Yakov Fain and his colleagues at Farata Systems were working on a new book, especially one with both “Flex” and “Enterprise” in its title. In my work developing Enterprise Flex projects, I often feel that many of the resources out there are targeted at Media applications developers and not at the developers of large-scale Enterprise Flex applications. This is why I rushed to get a PDF copy of the rough-cut version of Enterprise Development with Flex. So what’s in this book? I’ve reviewed a selection of the chapters for you. It starts with

Source: WebAppers gameQuery is a jQuery plug-in to help make JavaScript game development easier by adding some simple game-related classes. gameQuery has the following features: multi layer-sprite animations, sprite hierarchies, collision detection, swappable sound support, periodic callbacks and keyboard state polling. JavaScript games are still in their infancy but but there is many reason why they are more than a curiosity: Modern browser provide very good JavaScript engine and improvement keeps coming. Then to develop JavaScript games you don’t need an expensive proprietary IDE, widly available, free, open source software are there waiting for you! Sometimes Flash is not available

“ESPN360.com, ESPN’s 24/7 broadband sports network, today announced that it will collaborate with MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM) for its technology infrastructure and operations support when the network’s name changes to ESPN3.com on April 4th.

Flash Lite 3 (and now 4) can be customized to support h.264 video but the license for h.264 needs to be purchased separately by OEMs. We often get questions on how much additional costs this is going to incur so I researched and here’s what I found. H.264 has a different licensing structure for devices [...]

If you’re like me and couldn’t make it to the Flash Gaming Summit, you’ll definitely want to check out these Connect recordings: Session Recordings from Flash Gaming Summit I’d [...]

A few weeks ago I attended the SanFlashCisco usergroup meeting which was really great. After the meeting we moved to the Mars bar where I got to know Luke Bayes who founded Project Sprouts. Project Sprouts is a Ruby based open-source, cross-platform project generation and configuration tool for ActionScript 2, ActionScript 3, Adobe AIR and [...]

The following example shows how you can create a multiline, justified label on Spark Button control in Flex 4 by creating a custom skin and setting the textAlign style and removing the maxDisplayedLines property. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!– http://blog.flexexamples.com/2010/03/09/creating-a-justified-multiline-spark-button-control-in-flex-4/ –> <s:Application name="Spark_Button_skinClass_textAlign_test" xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" [...]

From Mike Chambers: There has been a lot of buzz in the mobile space lately, and I suspect there will be even more around Windows Phone 7 at next week’s Microsoft Mix conference. One thing I wanted to clarify as it may have been lost in some of the other news is that Adobe and Microsoft [...]

Sujit Reddy and I just co-wrote a new technical paper for the Adobe Developer Connection on how to get your development environment up and running if you want to take advantage of the powerful new features of LiveCycle Data Services 3 and Flash Builder 4.Click here to get started – it only takes about 15 minutes from start to end.LiveCycle Data Services ES2 is an important component for many companies migrating to a three-tier architecture for enterprise RIA development. The advanced Message Exchange Patterns (MEPs) it enables are unparalleled and very robust. This article is aimed at developers and distills

At the last LFPUG I did a presentation on Flex 4 where I went through what I thought were the fundamental changes, and they showed some custom stuff I’d been working on. The plan was to then do a post on each slide explaining in a little more detail (which is still the plan), but [...]

There has been a lot of buzz in the mobile space lately, and I suspect there will be even more around Windows Phone 7 at next week’s Microsoft Mix conference. One thing I wanted to clarify as it may have been lost in some of the other news is that Adobe and Microsoft are working [...]

Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine is now out with their March 2010 issue, and in it you’ll find a chapter from Flex 4 In Action that we converted for magazine format that details Flex 4 components. In it you’ll learn about: Spark component architecture Simple vs. Composite components Flex 3 to Flex 4 migration tips [...]

Title says it all. Some really nice Flash charting examples. Check it out.

Quick post, this time no Flash but a Photoshop action that saves me a lot of time. First of all, I don’t use slides in Photoshop, but often I just make a selection, copy/paste that in a new window and then press ctrl-alt-shift-s to ’save for the web’. I am doing this a lot of times when slicing objects. Since a while now I use an action for that. I hope this will help you too work faster. Key thing you have to remember is to create a selection and press F2..It automatically does the copy/new/paste+’save for the web’

Very good perspective on Flash and standards. Both the standards community and the Flash community are extremely good at sharing knowledge and supporting the people within their respective groups. The relationship across communities, however, isn’t nearly as cordial. Two things are happening: either the people within each camp stay to themselves, or one ignorantly hurls insults [...]

In case you haven’t already seen this, Scott Evans’ MAX talk “Flash Builder 4 Advanced Tips and Tricks” is up on Adobe TV….

The following example shows how you can create a drop down MX DataGrid control in Flex 4 using the Spark PopUpAnchor control in Flex 4. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!– http://blog.flexexamples.com/2010/03/09/creating-a-drop-down-datagrid-control-in-flex-4/ –> <s:Application name="Spark_PopUpAnchor_DataGrid_test" xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"> [...]

Who says you can’t have it all? Check out this YouTube video showing the web, Flash and Air on an upcoming HP Slate Device: Also, see this Wired story.

In Issue No. 302 of A List Apart for people who make websites, Joe Clark explains what E-book designers can learn from 10 years of standards-based web design, and Daniel Mall tells designers what they can do besides bicker over formats. Web Standards for E-books by Joe Clark E-books aren’t going to replace books. E-books [...]

If you’re at 360|Flex this week, you should be doing your session surveys! Either via the iPhone app, or the AIR app. Why? 10 copies of anything you want from Adobe. 3 licenses for ElementRiver Source Mate Tons for books from O’Reilly, and Apress Copies of Techsmith Software 4 unlimited Domain licenses for Flextras Components 2 Timbuk2 Messenger bags from Apress If you [...]

You have probably used mx:ViewStack, mx:TabNavigator and mx:Accordion somewhere in your Flex development efforts over the last 5+ years and had code that looks like this: 1234567891011121314151617181920212223<mx:TabNavigator width="400" height="200" horizontalCenter="0" y="15">     <mx:VBox label="Tab 1">         <mx:Label text="This is tab 1"/>     </mx:VBox>     <mx:VBox label="Tab 2">         <mx:Label text="This is tab [...]

Here is are post of a video of the Branded Music Player AIR application that uses runtime CSS to switch the skins of the AIR application.