One of my presentations on Flex Localization with BabelFx was recorded at 360|Flex in 2011. Zaa.tv recorded a bunch of the sessions at this event and they have recently posted the videos for free.
So if you missed 360|Flex, you will find several of the presentation …
January 12, 2012 Tags: apache, BabelFx, Flex, i18n, l10n, localization
Category: 360|Flex, Best Practise, Events, Flash Platform, Flex, RIA No Comments 
I often get asked, “How did you get to where you are?” To which I respond, “Mediocrity?”
The real answer… public speaking, community involvement, not sucking at what I do and genuinely enjoying my work.
Now, I can’t help you with all these topics. But I can give you some advice on getting start with being recognized. …
Read MoreNovember 16, 2011 Category: Best Practise, Events No Comments
For years the Adobe Flex SDK has been “open source.” And it was, kinda. But they had never opened it up to the community to help work on the project. Then last 360 Flex 2011 in Denver, Adobe announced that they’d support the Spoon project which would …
Read MoreNovember 16, 2011 Category: Flash Platform, Flex, RIA 1 Comment
First of all, the sky is not falling. Flash is not dead.
But with a poorly handled announcement by Adobe regarding the Flash Player plug-in for “mobile browsers” it really caused quite a stir. Unfortunately, the intent of the communication was not clear enough for most people. Including most of us in the community. Adobe …
Read MoreNovember 12, 2011 Category: Flash, Flash Platform, Mobile No Comments
Adobe gives away free copies of the new Flash Builder 4 Standard edition to students, teachers, and unemployed developers. To apply for your free copy, visit http://bit.ly/FreeFlashBuilder
Read MoreJune 8, 2010 Category: Flash Builder, Flex 1 Comment
Flash Player is open and SWF is documented
The core of Flash Player is the Tamarin Virtual Machine, which is an open source project under Mozilla. While the SWF file format is not fully open, it …
Read MoreMay 10, 2010 Tags: HTML5, osflash.org, Silverlight, SWF, Tamarin
Category: Best Practise, Flash, Flash Platform, Flex, RIA 11 Comments
If you need an easy and affordable way to secure your application against license sharing and ‘keygen cracks’, Zarqon just may be the answer you’ve been looking for.
A good friend of mine, Cliff Hall, is most known for the PureMVC framework which was inspired by his his lack …
Read MoreMarch 24, 2010 Tags: Adobe, AIR, Cliff Hall, Flex, Licensing, PureMVC, RIA, Zarqon
Category: AIR, Best Practise, Flash Platform, Flex, PureMVC 2 Comments
Download Adobe AIR from the Adobe downloads.
Open a terminal window.
cd to download directory
chmod the AdobeAIRInstaller.bin to 755
su -m
enter password
./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
Read MoreMarch 19, 2010 Tags: Adobe AIR, Linux
Category: AIR No Comments
I’ve been reading a few discussions on how to more effectively manage development of a Flex project. And the reason many are looking for a solution has nothing to do with Flex, per say, but has more to do with the complexity of our development environments.
Using the cloud is a popular BINGO word, but in reality… I think desktop virtualization is the better fit.
March 12, 2010 Tags: development, Flex, LiveCycle, PaaS, Training, Virtual Machine, virtualization
Category: Best Practise, Flex No Comments
On my latest project, I was going through several areas of the application adding toolTips to make some of the data that is clipped visible if desired. In doing so, I found out that I needed to use a combination of the different types of tips available.
Most components …
Read MoreMarch 11, 2010 Tags: dataTipField, Flex 3, itemRenderer, List, toolTip
Category: Components, Flex, RIA 1 Comment
