I had the ‘pleasure’ of sitting next to a lawyer screaming previously confidential information into his mobile phone on the return home from a trip to New York. It seems that Motorola is actively working with Google/YouTube to bring their content directly to your mobile phone using Flash Lite. While Continue Reading
While the blog was down last week, the CFUnited Scheduler was launched. This is a cool little AJAX app, which lets you figure out which sessions you want to attend. You can browse the sessions by time, by presenter, or by track. If you are going to CFUnited this year Continue Reading
At midnight, Thursday April 26th at Midnight, Adobe officially announced that the Flex 3 SDK, will be released as an open source project under the Mozilla Public License. The actual timeline for the release looks like this: Summer 2007 – Daily builds of the Flex 3 SDK will be provided. Continue Reading
For reasons beyond my control, this blog has been unavailable for the past two weeks. As I spent time with the hosts tech support, it became clear the issue was a bad DNS entry, which has now been corrected. Of course, this coincides with a time when there was alot Continue Reading
Yep, you read that right. Adobe announced today that Flex is going to be an open source project under a Mozilla Public License. I’m still not sure how Adobe is going to keep making money from Flex, but you can read about the details of this move on Ted Patrick’s Continue Reading
An embarrassingly long time ago I was sitting with Jeff Tapper at Max when we first heard about support for dynamic modules in Flex. I leaned over and said, ‘The first thing I am going to do tonight is build a ViewStack that supports modules.’ Well, it wasn’t the first Continue Reading
Just finished watching the Tech Wednesday presentation for what is being called the Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3, and all I can do is share some of the quotes heard in the room: “Wow” “Double wow” “… I actually have goosebumps.” and, my absolute favorite: “holy mother of god.” Continue Reading
To support a high end print campaign for their client, Chicago creative agency 50,000feet conceived and designed an innovative way for customers to explore and purchase from an extensive collection of luxury wines at worldsgreatestwines.com. They turned to us for technical expertise and development in order to make sure this Continue Reading
[UPDATE] The post below was originally for Flex 2. In Flex 3, the property name has changed to UIComponentGlobals.designMode. [/UPDATE] Ever write a custom component that needs to do something different in design view than at runtime? Perhaps at runtime the component should query an rpc service and return the Continue Reading
I will be presenting the second part of a series about Flex Data Services at the Flash Platform Group in New York (fpgny.org ) on May 2nd, 2007. I encourage anyone in the NY area to check out this and other NY area Adobe groups. It is a great way Continue Reading
I still get a fair amount of email asking about errata for the Flex 2: Training from the Source book. It doesn’t look like the publisher has their errata page up, but you can now find information about the known issues (two missing files and an import statement) at www.flexgrocer.com Continue Reading
If any of you regularly extend Flex 2 components then you have undoubtedly been knocked off course at some point by the need to extend or access a method or variable in the Flex framework that is declared private. Figuring out that one private variable stands between you and completion Continue Reading
Well, I am back from webDU and doing my best to adjust to the new time zone. webDU was a fantastic event. Geoff Bowers and the team at Daemon go all out to make this a brilliant conference and they succeed. The conference accomplishes their goal of having one of Continue Reading
I admit it. Despite the (sometimes) good natured ribbing of individuals on my native North American continent, it took the comments of Geoff Bowers and Jesse Warden while I was Down Under at webDU to actually get this blog online. I intend to use it to demonstrate some interesting, and Continue Reading
Since it was mentioned and demo'd at the MAX conference in Las Vegas last year, I've been incredibly excited about the upcoming Apollo product from Adobe. Apollo promises to allow web developers to build real desktop applications, using technologies we know today, namely HTML, JavaScript, MXML and ActionScript. If your Continue Reading
After 2+ years of the same layout here, I'm being dragged kicking and screaming into a new design. The folks at blog city (who ultimately host this blog), have upgraded their software. Needless to say, my old design couldnt be automatically migrated, so, with a minimum of fuss, I've created Continue Reading
While the official errata site from PeachPit press is not yet available, the authors have put together one of our own here. Feel free to contact us with any additional problems you find in the book, and we will post them to the site.
According to Matt Chotin's blog, the Max 07 dates and locations are as follows: North America 9/30/07-10/3/07 McCormick Place West, Chicago Europe October 2007 Barcelona, Spain Asia/Pacific November 2007 Japan As an attendee of each of the Allaire / Macromedia / Adobe conferences since 2000, I have every confidence this Continue Reading
In browsing the latest Developer Center Update email, I noticed that they have chosen to include 4 chapters from our Flex Book on their site. It looks like they have put the pdf’s and files for Chapters 11 (DataGrids), 16 (Styles and Skins), 20 (FDS Data Push) and 21 (FDS Continue Reading
In work for a particular client, we noticed an odd little bug with the latest Flash Player (9.0.28). It seems that context menus (the items which appear when you right click) dont work when the right click is on an embeded image. Take a look at this simple example: main.mxml: Continue Reading
