Reload Flex Application From Itself
Here is a nice little trick to allow a Flex application reload itself. This is very handy when you are dealing with server side logics that need refreshing the application for something new.
The idea of this reload is via Application.application.url.
var urlRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(Application.application.url);
navigateToURL(urlRequest,”_self”);
The above code will do it. Nice and simple.
Around the World in a Flex Mashup
Most of us like travelling around the world, even though we may not be conscious about Mother Earth. But with the current situation of the world economy, we are forced to tighten our purse strings more than ever.
Journeys partially fills our appetite for travel. Through the Flex website, we can go around a [...]
Visualizing Your Community with Flex
Flex888
Introduction
Hello, everyone here at Flex888, my name is Landon Key and I am the creator of PostWorthy.com. As a guest blogger I’d like to tell you about an exciting widget that I have created using Flex 3.0 and Yahoo’s MyBlogLog API (showing in this post and at Flex888 site.)
The most exciting feature of the MyBlogLog [...]
Rich App for Rich Presentations
SlideRocket is a rich internet application in every sense of the phrase: rich utility, rich features, and rich look. It has been touted by the Flex community as the first and the best Flex app for a serious and a large-scale utility.
It is one of the competitors in the growing SaaS market of online office [...]
A Beginner’s Course on Flex
Recently, with RIA technologies continuously generating buzz and increasingly becoming visible, several people are seeking to learn about Flex or some RIA technology. Some of them have even expressed their desire as comments on this very blog. So, shall we have a small introductory course now? In the next half hour?
It’s a Friday, so let [...]
Your Baby’s Scrapbook
Babies! They fill our lives with awe and beauty. They simultaneously make us proud and humble. We would like to freeze each moment and store it forever, but neither can most of us afford it nor do we have such time to spare. That is where HowFastTheyGrow.com enters the picture.
The people behind the website developed [...]
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 [...]
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