Using Force.com as a Flex back end…
or depending how you see it, using flex as a force.com application front end.
Either way salesforce is one of the PaaS (platform as a service) providers, that sees in Flex the technology for adding rich user interfaces to its applications. As we’ll have the chance to point out in numerous occasions, RIA’s and SaaS (software […]
Tracking Olympics Real Time With Flex
We have finally reached the momentous day. Sports buffs across the world will be breaking their heads to keep track of all their favorite events and results. I wish that by the next Olympics they can all have access to their versions of Olimpics.cat.
Featured as the App of the Week in Adobe Flextv’s first episode, Olimpics.cat […]
Create Your Flex Games
I have never been a big gamer. But I remember sweating for hours at length creating my own stages in Tank and Lode Runner, and being thrilled while playing those as a kid. User-generated content in games could be the next big thing, and PlayCrafter, the gamers' next big thing.
PlayCrafter is a suite of games [...]
Rounding Up Last Week
British Telecom acquired Ribbit for about $105M. Ryan Stewart already interviewed Chuck Freedman, Ribbit's director of development platform, about the way it might affect developers. Ribbit, the self-proclaimed "Silicon Valley's first phone company", is an open platform that enables voice telephony in Web 2.0 applications.
The Flex SEO Contest Ryan launched early last month got good [...]
Flex Programming Tips of the Week 0807d
Keeping Rotated Content Clipped - When you are getting more towards the visual and media side of Flex you will have to deal with something like this. So, be prepared.
Define Dynamic XML Literals by javier Julio - XML is first class citizen of Flex/Actionscript. However, from time to time you just want to do more [...]
Flex in E-commerce
Towards the end of last year, Charles wondered how RIA technologies can enhance usability in E-commerce sites. His main ideas were rotatable and magnifiable images, and an easily browsable gallery. I have come across very few websites that use RIAs not just for the main pages but also the stores.
Coyote Store is one such website, [...]
Flex Programming Tips of the Week 0807c
It's a busy week.
Flex/Flash/Maya 3D UI Button Controls - Live Example - As I said before, Flex is a great tool for bridging developers and creative designers. Here is an example by Joya Moore. He didn't give out too much details but the result is just amazing.
Create a SkinnableComponent in Flex 4 - If the [...]
Flex Programming Tips of the Week 0807b
DataGrid with flexible row height - DataGrid is the most used component for displaying structured data. For more complex data structure inside a grid, it takes some customization to make the display look good. This example by Harry Vikatos will tell you how that could be done.
Flex 3 Component Explorer - Let's call it [...]
DataGrid with flexible row height
In one project I needed to have a data grid cell present some hierarchical data and I thought I could just use a tree control as the item data renderer for that grid column.
This what I got:
As you can see if you open the trees, the data row is not adjusting [...]
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