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Platform as a Service (PaaS) vs. Managed Virtualization

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 …

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Build Flex applications for iPhone? ELIPS says yes!

ELIPS Studio 3 is a cross-platform mobile application SDK based on Adobe’s Flex Builder. But it only works on Windows, so I’m wondering how that is going to work.
Check it out: http://developer.openplug.com/index.php/learn/elips-studio-3-flex-for-mobile…

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Adobe MAX 2009 Online

Not going to Adobe MAX 2009? Not to worry…

Watch MAX keynotes, streamed live from Los Angeles-register now
(go to http://max.adobe.com/online/ )

On October 5th and 6th, Adobe MAX Online will feature the keynotes, streamed live, highlighting the newest and most exciting developments in the world of technology. Join 10 minutes early and participate in …

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FITC Mobile Presentation on iPhone Development

Just finished my presentation at FITC Mobile 2009 in Toronto. And it went very well!
I had lots of questions and was able to answer all but one.
The presentation was about building native iPhone applications using JavaScript and HTML instead of Objective-C. I’m currently using Titanium Mobile to does this.
I’ve posted a …

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Adobe Flex/AS3 Code Quality Tool (PMD)

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

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CFUnited has lots of Flex Training Sessions

One of my CFUnited sessions:
AIR: Building Desktop Applications with Flex 3 – http://cfunited.com/2009/topics/235

Here is a little Q&A about CFUnited and me.

1. Have you spoken at CFUnited in the past?  What would you tell someone who hasn’t been

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Set Cursor Focus in Flex

I have a pet peeve, although I’ll admit it’s one of many. The pet peeve is this. When starting a Flex application that requires authentication, I have to use tabbing or, heaven forbid, my mouse to set focus to the “user name” field on the login screen. Why!! We have been doing this for years

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Dynamic FlashPaper

I was recently trying to create a document collaboration tool for one of my clients. In order to make it a bit easier for the user, I decided I would use FlashPaper to display the uploaded documents they are discussing. …

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Using useHandCursor in Flex

While working on a recent Flex project I found a code sample that someone created because they were having trouble getting the useHandCursor to work. It was pretty obvious what they were trying to do, take a look:

<mx:Canvas width="176" …
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Local SharedObject

“When you create a SharedObject, Macromedia Flash Player creates a new directory for the application and domain, and creates an empty *.sol file that stores the SharedObject data. The default location of this file is in a subdirectory of the user”s home directory; for example: c:/Documents and Settings/username/Application Data/Macromedia/Flash Player/web_domain/lso.mxml.swf/. While usually predictable, the location …

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