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July 02 2009
SourceForge's FOSS project of the month of June was Silex. From the SourceForge writeup: "Silex is an open source RIA that enables you to build Flash websites for Flash Player 7, 8, 9, and 10. Silex is a new kind... read moreEclipse / Flex Builder Undelete
June 22 2009
Regardless of whether you use Windows, Mac or Linux, if you delete a file in an Eclipse or Flex Builder project, the file does not go to your Trash. Fear not! You can retrieve these missing files. Eclipse keeps... read moreFlash Builder, Linux and Winning the RIA War
June 17 2009
Summary: Adobe should address developers with a marketing program that is separate from their designer marketing program, and offer products aimed at hard-core developer interests. The goal would be to leverage the influential developer community to drive sales of products... read moreMay 29 2009
Flex Builder complains when a CSS definition exists for components that are not used in a project. I do not find this helpful.If you click on the filter button in the Problems panel, a dialog will appear that allows you... read moreMay 03 2009
Sometimes I wish Flex had the equivalent of the 'Display Element Information' feature of the Web Developer plugin for Firefox. It is often useful to see exactly where the boundaries of a container are, and selected information about a component... read moreApril 10 2009
You might be surprised to know that Flex can create a JavaScript function and call it on the fly. For example, here is a snippet of ActionScript that shows how to obtain the URL of the page that invoked a... read moreFree Flex Builder for Unemployed, Students and Faculty
April 06 2009
Adobe has a terrific offer for unemployed programmers and students: a free, fully enabled copy of Flex Builder 3! See for yourself at https://freeriatools.adobe.comThe criteria for unemployed programmers is:To receive the product under this program, you must attest to the... read moreActionScript and MXML Pretty Printer
March 17 2009
I previously blogged about the importance of coding standards, and offered my opinions on what beautiful code looks like. Regardless of whether you accept my code formatting conventions for yourself or not, there is an excellent Eclipse plug-in that can... read moreMarch 11 2009
FlexMDI is an excellent floating panel implementation.If you have tried other floating panel implementations then you know they leave much to be desired. DragPanel is awkward to work with, and does not provide much functionality. SuperPanel is very slow and... read moreActionScript Data Structure Performance
March 11 2009
As I have previously reported, lots of Java programmers are adopting Flex. One question that Java programmers always ask is "where are my beloved collections classes?" First, the good news: this blog will point you to some excellent collection classes,... read moreCustom Renderers for the Flex AdvancedDataGrid
March 01 2009
There are hardly any code example for how to use renderers for AdvancedDataGrid, and those that do exist are trivial. Apparently AdvancedDataGrid has issues, according to none other than the illustrious Doug McCune: As a very general word of... read moreSample App Using Google Maps API for Flash
February 12 2009
Google recently published a sample Flex application that demonstrated the Google Maps Flash API. Andrew Trice reported on the API last May. You can try the new demonstration application here. The application is pretty cool, but lacks some important features... read moreRunning Flex Applications Within PDFs
January 25 2009
The entire family of Adobe Acrobat 9 products feature a Flash runtime, and Flex applications can now be embedded in a PDF. You can embed an XML document into a PDF, include a Flex application that reads the XML data,... read moreAdobe to Publish RTMP Specification
January 21 2009
Now that Adobe has announced that it will publish the RTMP specification for rich media streaming, how long before the various Flex Data Services open source projects like BlazeDS, GraniteDS and Pimento support RTMP channels?... read moreJava to ActionScript Converter, Take 3
December 26 2008
I needed to estimate the effort required to port a Spring Rich Client application to AIR. Spring RCP applications are actually Java Swing applications. The project had 93 Java files, consisting of 118 Java classes and 16,950 total lines of... read moreRecent Posts | All Posts
