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 
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
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 is documented by the community on osflash.org. Additionally, there are numerous open source products that read and …
Read more →May 10, 2010 Tags: HTML5, osflash.org, Silverlight, SWF, Tamarin
Category: Best Practise, Flash, Flash Platform, Flex, RIA 12 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 of love for the Cairngorm framework. …
Read more →March 24, 2010 Tags: Adobe, AIR, Cliff Hall, Flex, Licensing, PureMVC, RIA, Zarqon
Category: AIR, Best Practise, Flash Platform, Flex, PureMVC 2 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
Adobe recently released (August 2009) the Flex implementation of PMD tool which is extensively used at J2EE shops for code quality management. FlexPMD is a tool that helps to improve code quality by auditing any AS3/Flex source directory and detecting common bad practices.
The Flex PMD tool is locate on the Adobe Open Source Projects …
Read more →September 3, 2009 Tags: ActionScript, Adobe, Adobe Flex, AS3, Code Quality, development, Open Source, PMD
Category: Best Practise, Flex, RIA 3 Comments
Swiz is a framework for Adobe Flex that aims to bring complete simplicity to RIA development. But, until recently, the documentation was limited.
But now…
Swiz Framework Site: http://swizframework.org/
Swiz 0.6.2 Actionscript API Reference: http://on3solutions.com/swiz062/
Swiz Framework Source: http://code.google.com/p/swizframework/
Enjoy guys. Now start coding!…
Read more →July 29, 2009 Tags: Flex, frameworks, Swiz
Category: Best Practise, Flash Platform, Flex, RIA, Software Frameworks, Swiz No Comments
Having used a dozen or so IDE over the years, I appreciate it when they provide a way for me you use my favorite font (Bitstream Vera Sans Mono). You can set the font in Flex Builder from Windows > Preferences dialog window. Select the General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts category. …
Read more →April 28, 2008 Tags: BitStream Vera Sans Mono, Flex, font
Category: Best Practise, Eclipse No Comments
File Upload:
File Upload in Flex/Flash in Internet Explorer
File Upload Using Flex/Central/Java
Architecture Ideas:
Cairngorm and an associated Breezo that will help explain
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April 28, 2008 Tags: Adobe, AIR, ColdFusion, Flex
Category: Cairngorm, ColdFusion, Flex No Comments
