You can’t make this stuff up. Someone sent me a couple of great graphics supporting my assertion. So please respond with anything that supports the contrary.
Update:
After getting a little splashback from some of my friends and colleagues, I thought that I’d add a little supporting evidence to my assertions.
“Moving” to HTML5 …
Read more →April 11, 2012 Tags: Adobe, Adobe AIR, Adobe Flex, Apache Flex, developers, Flash, Flex, future of Flex, HTML5, Mobile
Category: AIR, Flash, Flash Platform, Flex, Mobile, RIA 4 Comments 
Writing good tweets is an art form.Some tweeters use “Shock ‘n Awe” and others use humor (that’s humour for my Canadian friends.)
OT: Should I call them “tweeters” or “twits”?
Never mind, let’s talk about some of …
Read more →April 4, 2012 Tags: advice, how to, social media, tweet, twitter
Category: Best Practise, Social Media No Comments
Let me start with the punch line: Adobe’s announcement only applies to browser-based applications that use domain memory IN COMBINATION WITH hardware accelerated Stage3D in Flash Player
If you don’t know what these features are, this announcement does not effect you.
It’s funny to me how a simple statement gets construed when passed on to even …
Read more →March 29, 2012 Tags: Adobe, announcement, dead, domain memory, Flash Player, game developer, gamer, Stage3D
Category: Flash, Flash Platform 12 Comments
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 (including mine) very helpful in your quest for mastering …
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 …
Read more →November 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 essentially spoon feed updates and additions to the …
Read more →November 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. …
Read more →November 12, 2011 Category: Flash, Flash Platform, Mobile No 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 more →March 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 …
Read more →March 12, 2010 Tags: development, Flex, LiveCycle, PaaS, Training, Virtual Machine, virtualization
Category: Best Practise, Flex 1 Comment
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 have a toolTip property that you …
Read more →March 11, 2010 Tags: dataTipField, Flex 3, itemRenderer, List, toolTip
Category: Components, Flex, RIA 1 Comment
