Who is Using Flex

Posted by Charles | October 31, 2007 .

Interesting post at infoQ titled who is using Flex. It recognizes that Flex is reaching critical point (or mass), as a number of large companies are now using Flex to implement new features. Some big players are mentioned there.
First, of cause it’s SAP. As we can still remember that SAP is indeed early (very) adapter of […]

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Flex a Good Sleep

Posted by Charles | October 30, 2007 .

Glad to see people are trying to utilize Flex for their commerce sites. One example if the P E Sleep Lab. You would see those familiar components are adapted there to built the site. If get rid of the background and beautify those title fonts, the site would be a good start.
One thing I like […]

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Many Ways to Skin a Flex

Posted by Charles | October 29, 2007 .

The best part of Flex, even though not that noticeable, is the skin (theme) and style support. It’s a important step to separate the UI design and the coding. The famous Flex Style Explorer will show the rope if you want to cut deeper into the skin thing. Otherwise, heading to Scale Nine will be […]

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Enterprise in a Box

Posted by Charles | October 28, 2007 .

“Enterprise” is a multi billion dollar word. Many people and vendors are bring complexity into the enterprise world for a big price; Some others are trying to make it simple and easy. I found the company Epazz is the later one. It’s product BoxesOS tries to put enterprise into a box.
Really BoxesOS is a content […]

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Smart Widget Hunting Flash Map

Posted by Charles | October 27, 2007 .

The greatly anticipated Nokia widget platform, WidSets, is going from beta to live! Jack at N95Pro will give you some details that how he will enjoy those goodies on the Nokia N95. What I’m amazed here is the Widsets Map, the Flash widget discovery interface.

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TGiF with a new designer

Posted by Charles | October 26, 2007 .

I enjoy promoting creative designers. It’s the designers that make Flex a main stream development platform now, not developers. We developers really just tag along and extend the Flash territory. Here is another young and talent one, Ala Abdulwahab. The site has his portfolio.
I can’t imagine a good creative designer does without a a great flash […]

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Flex Components in a Box

Posted by Charles | October 25, 2007 .

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Is j2flex a Promising Flex Data Framework?

Posted by Charles | October 24, 2007 .

Flex and RESTfull Ruby on Rails is my favorite data driven RIA web application framework. I even posted 10 Flex and Ruby on Rails resources awhile ago. I know people have been trying many other ways to allow Flex UI connect to the data sources, j2flex is a newer example.
There are not whole lot on […]

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Flex into Social Graph Kingdom

Posted by Charles | October 23, 2007 .

While it’s getting colder everyday here at northern California, our neighborhood startup Facebook is getting hotter every moment you turn your attention to it.
By now you should have known the term Social Graph. It’s crafted by the Facebook crowd and represents complex social environment and rich social data. You won’t pass a day lately without […]

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