**Updated with fixed links. Sorry about that! GitHub I’ve recently started work on a side project. It’s going to be a front end client for a media management server (Plex), which means it’s going to serve up lists of content and play back videos/music. One of the things that makes Continue Reading
In my previous posts about writing native extensions for iOS, I pointed out that it’s important to tell Flash Builder where the iOS SDK is located. When I installed Xcode on a Snow Leopard machine the SDK was located at: [sourcecode] /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS5.0.sdk [/sourcecode] I set up a brand new Macbook Continue Reading
This is the last step of the native extension build process. Did you miss something or are you late to the party? Jump back to step 1. Now that all of the supporting projects have been built and compiled, it’s time to put it all together. For native extensions, that Continue Reading
Building the Android library was very interesting. It was easier for me to write Java as it was more similar to ActionScript. Some amount of debugging (log statements) is actually possible with zero work on the developer’s part which is a great addition (more on that later). Also, using the Continue Reading
The iOS project is the part that, in my opinion, is the hardest. There are plenty of mistakes that are very easy to accidentally make. Hopefully this post will help everyone else avoid the same mistakes that I made. The iOS Library 1. Open Xcode and make a new project. Continue Reading
In this post we’ll discuss the parts of the native extension that are written in ActionScript. This includes in the main library and the default implementation. The ActionScript Library The main library is an ActionScript library which serves as an interface to the AIR application. This library is also responsible Continue Reading
I’ve been writing a lot of native extensions lately. The project I’m working on now requires all kinds of custom behavior. It’s been an interesting ride. I’ve learned a lot, for sure, particularly since I haven’t coded extensively with iOS or Android. I’ve learned some things and I’d like to Continue Reading
Okay, so, I have been a little behind schedule actually posting content. Here is my first attempt at reconcilliation. These are the slides from my garbage collection talk at flash and the city this year. They go into moderate depth about the internals of garbage collection on the Flash Player Continue Reading
Late last night adobe released several new betas on the labs.adobe.com site, including: • 64 bit Flash Player (Code Named “Square”) • Flex 4.5 SDK (Code Named “Hero”) • Flash Builder Next (Code Named “Burrito”) • Flash Catalyst Next (Coe Named “Panini”) Square is obviously very interesting, as more and Continue Reading
At 360|Flex DC yesterday, I presented my “Whats under your skin” presentation, all about architecting components with skins and layouts. I had a great audience, who was very engaged and asked lots of pertinent questions. For anyone interested, here are the slides. The code for the ShoppingList component can be Continue Reading
As promised, here are the slides for “Ouch! It hurts when i do that.” presentation first delivered at 360Flex San Jose, March 10th, 2010.
Down to the last 5 (Cheap) tickets left for 360|Flex. Register now, save $100 and get the same awesome content for a little less coin. Act fast, these last tickets won’t last. When they’re gone, the regular price of $599 kicks in. Come on out and hear me give advice Continue Reading
As you probably know, its pretty easy to use a custom preloader in flex to replace the built in preloader shown as a flex application loads. There are a few tricks to remember with a custom preloader though, remember that the preloader is built to be displayed until the flex Continue Reading
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File this under the better late than never… On September 26 and 27th, the folks who bring you Flex 360, put on a 2 day "Flex Camp" in New Jersery, which went over extremely well. I was presenting on Testing with Fluint (formerly known as DPUint). Of course, I Continue Reading
and found the public beta of flash player 10 was out. How cool is that. I knew this would be coming before too long, but didnt realize that it would be out so quickly. This new version is filled with lots of new features aimed at allowing greater “expressiveness” in Continue Reading
I’m a bit late in releasing this news, but our “Flex 3 Training from the source book” was released last week, and is now available from our publisher, as well as the major online bookstores such as Amazon, and Barnes and Noble. Speaking of Amazon, we are currently the #843 Continue Reading
Next week I'm off to London to speak at CFUnited Europe, and the following week, I'll be speaking at AJAX World East. In both places, I'll be speaking about the joy that is Flex 3 in all its forms. The CFUnited talk is more focused on how Flex can improve Continue Reading
1/18 – Flex Camp Chicago 1/24 – Flex Camp Omaha 2/24-2/27 – Flex 360 Atlanta 3/12-3/13 – CFUnited Europe 5/1-5/4 – CF.Objective() 5/19-5/23 – WebManiacs 6/25-6/28 – CFUnited
