Search for ActionScript code with flcodr
If you are looking for a piece of ActionScript code for doing, say, a special effect, you might give flCodr a try. There is not lot to say about it because it’s just a simple search interface to get you start. Or, bring up the tag cloud (3D) to drill down the code you are [...]
Rounding Up Social Media Outage Week
Many developers are increasingly working on Android apps. Now that Apple’s App Rejection pseudocode has been exposed. I have seen only two applications of pseudocode so far: interviews and jokes.
Ryan has examples to prove that the latest release Adobe AIR 1.5.2 is in fact more than what I previously called “a minor update… which includes [...]
Flex Unit Testing Made Easy With FlexMonkey
Gorilla Logic released the 1.0 version of their FlexMonkey, an open source AIR application for optimizing automated and unit testing of Flex-based applications. The earliest version first came out in September 2008.
Using FlexMonkey is easy and straight forward and one can quickly create an elaborate test suite with test cases with tests in them. The [...]
Google Indexing External Content
The Google Webmaster Central Blog recently carried a post assuring webmasters across the globe that Google is now capable of indexing Flash content along with its associated external resources. In plain English, it means that if SWF X loads content from SWF Y, then Y can be recognized as a child of X and both [...]
Generating Speech With AIR and Java
Rich Tretola recently posted a nice AIR/Java example for voice applications. The inspiration came from the ColdFusion Jedi Raymond Camden who posted an example of generating speech with ColdFusion and Java.
Both examples essentially use an underlying TTS (text-to-speech) system. They use Java-based FreeTTS here but you could use any of the TTS systems freely available. [...]
Silex, the June Sourceforge POTM
Silex is an open source RIA that can be used to build Flash Web sites for Flash Player 7, 8, 9, and 10. It is a CMS which can handle a wide variety of media, comes with an online WYSIWYG editor, automatically generates deep linking for your SWFs, and creates on-the-fly HTML versions for each [...]
Rounding Up The Google Wave Week
Last week actually became a Flex 4 week towards the tail end, but read about that in the next post. Google Wave is a phenomenal project and I already told you that.
One of our readers has a doubt: “I wondered if submitting an XML site map to google with relevant descriptions and titles was an [...]
Rounding Up The Cannes Week
I realized only last week that “sex” is the second most commonly searched term on our blog. Sad. If only the remaining top ones had been similarly inappropriate! Anybody think we should sprinkle a little keywords in our posts every now and then?
There are more people wishing for AIR apps that do nothing. Reader radekg [...]
Lessons From Time100
Time100 is an Adobe AIR app showing with the most influential people of the world in the last six years (2004-2009) divided into five categories (Leaders & Revolutionaries, Heroes & Pioneers, Scientists & Thinkers, Artists & Entertainers, Builders & Titans) scattered across the globe based on their geographical locations.
The user can navigate across the globe [...]
Recent Comments