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
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
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
If you are dealing with 508 compliance and wondering if a Flex application is accessible, this is your post.
First, yes, screen readers can read Flex applications. And yes, its fairly easy. But, I’ll discuss how in a future post.
But, if you’d rather send people to your old HTML version of your site when …
Read more →September 2, 2009 Tags: 508, Accessibility, Adobe, Adobe Flex, Flash Player 10, Flex, JAWS, Screen Reader
Category: Flash, Flash Platform, Flex, RIA 2 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 built/architected/developed/consulted many Adobe Flex applications and being one of the first certified Flex instructors in the world, I’ve seen a lot of Flex applications. Some good, some bad.
But no matter how many applications or who I’m talking to, I always stress the importance of securing proprietary information. By securing, I mean don’t …
Read more →June 25, 2009 Tags: Adobe, Adobe AIR, decompiler flash, Flash, Flex, security
Category: AIR, Flash, Flash Platform, Flex, RIA 3 Comments
