Ok, I know i promised to have these online earlier, but, regardless of the timing, here they are now. You can download the hands on files from my "Deploying HMTL/JavaScript Applications to the Desktop with AIR" here: air_experience.zip Thanks to those who attended, and to Kevin Hoyt, who provided the Continue Reading
I've been asked to speak at the first ever CFUnited Europe this year. CFUnited, which has been running each year in the Washington DC area (earlier under the name CFUN) for the past 9 years, is branching out, and hosting the conference in Europe as well. The conference will be on Continue Reading
Increasingly, clients have been asking for a "reflection" effect, showing a vertically flipped image of a component next to the actual component. After reinventing the wheel on this several times, I came up with this simple reusable component: package com.tappernimer.components{ import mx.containers.Canvas; import mx.core.UIComponent; import flash.display.BitmapData; import flash.geom.Matrix; import flash.display.IBitmapDrawable; Continue Reading
A mere 33 days until Max North America. As we are lucky enough to have Max in our home city of Chicago this year, my colleague Steve Lund has put together the ‘Max Attendees Guide to Chicago‘. It is a guide to local bars, restaurants and activities that are in Continue Reading
I missed it yesterday, when it was announced, but Adobe has now announced support for H.264 (also know as MPEG4) in an upcoming version of the flash player. H.264 is the same standard which is used by BluRay and HD-DVD — the ability to have this type of video in Continue Reading
Notice we have now defined a variable called carProxy which holds an instance of the CarPreferenceProxy class (coming up next). This class takes an instance of our old CarPreferenceManager as a parameter to the constructor. Now look at the Labels. Where we used to say carPrefs.getPreference(‘name’), we now say carProxy.name, Continue Reading
I am back in Chicago after a great event at 360 Flex. I had the opportunity to work with Matt Boles delivering a 4 hours cram session on Flex 101, badger the Flex product manager and gain some interesting additional insight into Flex memory. I also had an amazing opportunity Continue Reading
Sorry its been so long since the last blog entry, between the two kids, writing 3 books, and many clients, its been hard to find time to write new entries here. Today, I wanted to give a quick example of the Flex 2.0.1 feature of loading CSS style sheets at Continue Reading
As a reminder to all of you who have not yet signed up for Max. Early bird discounts end Friday 8/10 at midnight. So, go here https://secure.adobemax2007.com/, sign up, remmber to use my name ‘Michael Labriola’ as the community leader that told you about this. Then come and listen to Continue Reading
Thanks to all those who attended my Flex for ColdFusion Developer session at CFUnited. As promised, here are the files that i used in the session.
Well, things got busy and this slipped lower on the priority list, but I have finally posted my slides from FITC Chicago, the AIR talk at Adobe User Group Chicago and more recently my slides for the FDS2 and Flex Framework talks at FlexManiacs. All are enclosed below. My apologies Continue Reading
As promised, here are the starting files from my "FlexManiacs 2007 – Getting Started with Apollo" session. Thanks for attending my session, I hope you enjoyed it and the FlexManiacs Conference. Overall, i thought this conference was a great success. Many attendees of all levels. Great networking, Great debates, and Continue Reading
I recently built a hands-on presentation for the FlexManiacs conference, and thought it would be fun to have the class build a little apollo based mp3 player, which reads in the mp3 files from an iTunes libary.xml file, which they can then play, pause or stop. Well, we did just Continue Reading
Today, Adobe has released 3 new public beta's on Adobe Labs: The Adobe Integrated Runtime (formerly known as Apollo) beta, the Flex 3 Beta, and the Flash Player Updater were all publicly released on Labs today. I've been recovering from a failed hard drive all day (remind me to post Continue Reading
Ever have an MXML page with a bunch of validators that need to be checked before the page can be submitted? Here is quick trick to keep yourself a little more sane. Wrap all of your validators in an mx:Array tag and provide it an id. When the submit button Continue Reading
After some discussion on the Flex Components Yahoo group today, Matt Chotin publicly confirmed that the next release of Flash Player is committed to solving the existing right to left and bi-direction text issues that currently inhibit the platform. For the uninitiated, a good portion of the world reads and Continue Reading
At 1am, on tuesday May 15th, Kagan Scott Tapper, our 2nd child and first son, was born. He was born weighing 7lbs 12oz, and measuring 19.75" in length. Mom and baby are home and healthy, and all are well but all a bit tired.
It seems Sun is interested in re-gaining some of the market share it one had in the Rich Application space. The annual JavaOne conference is underway, and there seems to be quite a bit of buzz surrounding the upcoming annoucement of the JavaFX project. It seems that JavaFX is looking Continue Reading
Last night, Ben Forta continued his whirlwind tour of Scorpio, the code name for Adobe’s ColdFusion 8 software, this time in the beautiful environs of downtown Chicago. The talk was extremely illuminating, for a number of reasons. First, the people in the CCCFUG lived up to their rep by grilling Continue Reading
I was working on a deferred instantiation issue with Kyle from Adobe Support and came across this chunk of code in Container.as. if (child is Container) Container(child).recursionFlag = recurse; It seems innocuous. The child, which is some descendant of Container is cast as a Container and then the recursionFlag is Continue Reading
