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 
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
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
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 more →June 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 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
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
The event is Flex Training for ColdFusion Developers
A free full-day, hands-on training session, where attendees can learn how to build their first Flex application using the latest Flash Builder 4 beta software. This training is designed to help experienced ColdFusion developers get started in understanding how to add rich UI to existing and new …
November 2, 2009 Category: Events, Flash Builder, Flex, RIA, Training No Comments
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
