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 the complexity of our development environments.
Using the cloud is a popular BINGO word, but in reality… I think desktop virtualization is the better fit.
Posts Tagged ‘development’
March 12, 2010 Tags: development, Flex, LiveCycle, PaaS, Training, Virtual Machine, virtualization
Category: Best Practise, Flex 1 Comment 
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
December 20, 2009 Tags: Adobe Flex, development, iPhone
Category: Uncategorized No Comments
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 …
Read MoreJust 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 …
September 13, 2009 Tags: development, iPhone, Mobile, On3, on3solutions.com, Titanium Mobile
Category: iPhone, Mobile 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 …
Read MoreSeptember 3, 2009 Tags: ActionScript, Adobe, Adobe Flex, AS3, Code Quality, development, Open Source, PMD
Category: Best Practise, Flex, RIA 1 Comment
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.
May 9, 2009 Tags: Adobe, Adobe AIR, CFUnited, development, Flex, Flex Builder, Flex Conference, On3, Training
Category: AIR, ColdFusion, Flex No Comments
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 …
Read MoreApril 28, 2008 Tags: Adobe, cursor, development, Flex
Category: Flex 13 Comments
Creating FlashPaper documents on the fly is simple and easy once you have the right tools. The right tool is the FlashPaperConnect .dll. I found a version in Contribute. Read more to see how I used ColdFusion to generate FlashPaper documents on the fly.
Read MoreApril 28, 2008 Tags: development, FlashPaper
Category: ColdFusion 4 Comments
Being a developer is a tough job. We”re constantly under pressure to get some piece of code working as soon as possible. When we”re in a pinch, we often come up with some wacky workaround (aka refactor candidates).
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.
Read MoreApril 28, 2008 Tags: cursor, development, Flex
Category: Flash Platform, Flex, Flex Builder No Comments
“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 …
Read MoreApril 28, 2008 Tags: development, Flex, Shared object
Category: Flash, Flex No Comments
