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Andrew Trice

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Andrew Trice is the Principal Architect for Flex & AIR for Cynergy Systems, based in Washington, DC. He specializes in data visualization, client-server architectures, Object-Oriented principles, and rich application development. He has been developing for the web for over 10 years, with over eight years development for the Flash platform. Andrew has developed with Flex since version 1.5, and he thrives off the creativity and flexibility that the Flex/Flash platform enables. Andrew possesses over seven years experience with ColdFusion, is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer, and has a wide range of knowledge regarding relational databases, AJAX/Javascript, .NET, and Java web applications.

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LCDS 3.0 Available on Adobe Labs

July 01 2009

Kind of old news (only a week), but Adobe recently released a beta version of LCDS 3.0 on Adobe Labs. Read on to get more information about LCDS 3.0... read more

Building a Simple Chat App With Adobe Flash Collaboration Services

June 26 2009

In this post, we will focus on getting started with Adobe Flash Collaboration Services (formerly Cocomo). If you've heard of this, but aren't really sure what it is, AFCS is a hosted service provided by Adobe which enables real-time collaboration within your own Flex applications. read more

It's an active news day from Adobe!

June 16 2009

Two news items from Adobe today. Adobe released online spreadsheets with Acrobat Tables, and Adobe also releases the RTMP specification as part of the open screen project. read more

Flex 4 & Data Wizards Make Life Easy

June 04 2009

Connecting to data with Flex 4 and Flash Builder is now easier than ever. In this post, we'll walk through a simple scenario that will connect a Flex application to a web service, and we will barely write any code. read more

Having Fun With Google Maps Flash API

May 27 2009

Here's a post that contains a trick combining graphics filters with Google maps for some interesting effects. They don't necessarily make it easier to read the maps, nor do they have a lot of value, but they look interesting, and are fun to play with. :-) read more

Adobe Opens-Up Acrobat.com Presentations

May 27 2009

In a move to have an online office suite, Adobe recently released Acrobat.com Presentations. This, paired together with Buzzword and the additional capabilites of acrobat.com provide Adobe with a compelling online suite of office productivity applications, powered by the Flash platform. read more

Flex 4 & Custom Layouts

May 21 2009

If you haven't been keeping up with the latest on Flex 4, this is something that you will certainly want to look into. One of the new features of the Flex 4/Spark component architecture is that you can customize the layout of a container without altering the container itself. All… read more

Wow, Video in Flex 4 is easy!

May 08 2009

I was experimenting with Flex 4 this evening, and I realized something -- Incorporating video in your application is now really, really, really easy. Don't believe me, read on... read more

Flex 101: RPC Basics

May 01 2009

When building Flex applications, it is important to understand how to get data into and out of your applications and remote procedure calls (rpc). In this post, I'll try to shed some light on HTTPService, WebService, and RemoteObject classes and their usage. read more

Pushing Data Around With Blaze/LCDS

April 23 2009

Here's a quick tip for working with real time data in Flex applications (in particular Blaze Data Services and LiveCycle Data Services). LCDS isn't new by any means, but not everyone uses it on a daily basis. Here are a few ways that you can push real-time data between the… read more

3D Web Plugins - The Next Trend?

April 22 2009

Both Adobe and Microsoft have demonstrated the capabilities and importance of player-based runtimes within the browser -- There is no question about it. There are numerous things that you can do within the player based runtime that allow for an enhanced experience, and amazing graphical capabilities. Now, it appears that… read more

Flex 101: Consuming A Simple RSS Feed

April 09 2009

In my last "Flex 101" post, we reviewed the basics of consuming data through a web service. This time around, we are going to review the basics of loading a simple RSS XML feed and displaying the results in a Flex List component. read more

SWFScan - First Look

March 24 2009

I've seen several blog posts recently announcing SWFScan, a free tool from HP for decompiling and inspecting swf files for security vulnerabilities. In this post, we'll take a quick glance at what the tool can do for you. read more

Microsoft Releases IE8 RC1

March 19 2009

Microsoft has released a new beta of IE8. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/. It is supposed to be faster, easier and more secure. I'm downloading it at this very moment to test it out. read more

Google Releases Chrome Experiments

March 19 2009

Google recently released http://www.chromeexperiments.com/. It's a collection of Javascript-based experiments designed to show off the speed of the Google Chrome browser. read more

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