Rounding Up a Mournful Week

Posted by Sravan | June 29, 2009 .

Towards the end of last week, Farah Fawcett was followed by Michael Jackson was followed by Billy Mays. Gawker has some interesting statistics about how the news about MJ’s death melted the entire Internet, and Lee Brimelow tweeted that he was thinking about approaching Billy Mays for a joke infomercial for Adobe.
The first Android smartphone [...]

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Flex 4 Component’s Life Cycle

Posted by Charles | June 24, 2009 .

Learning Flex’s component’s life is proven very important when you are developing application involving complicate event and object interaction (um…something like frameworks). Mrianl Wadhwa from Bangalore, India did a very good job showing what it looks in Flex 4.

There are code examples on Wadhwa’s site and worth checking out too.

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Infuse Flex with the Force

Posted by Charles | June 23, 2009 .

The anti-software outfit Salesforce.com has released the latest version of Force.com Toolkit for Adobe AIR and Flex. As you might or might not know, Force.com’s Flex/AIR API is the really the proxy API for its SOAP web service API. The have a long list of such APIs for consuming the force.com web services, from .Net, [...]

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RunPee During Your Weekend Movie

Posted by Sravan | June 19, 2009 .

RunPee.com is a thoughtful Flex-based website that “helps your bladder enjoy going to the movies as much as you do”. It was developed by Dan Floro aka polyGeek who has a simple realistic premise: Every movie has a few scenes that aren’t crucial to the plot that you can miss and not be lost.
I initially [...]

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RIAs at the Enterprise Level

Posted by Sravan | June 18, 2009 .

The penetration of RIAs into the consumer world is beyond doubt. We have numbers supporting that time and again. To that extent, RIAs are here to stay. However, I sometimes wonder the scenario when it comes to enterprise apps.
Let us exclude AJAX for the sake of discussion because most GUIs these days are being built [...]

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Rounding Up An Eventful Week

Posted by Sravan | June 16, 2009 .

Adobe Flex & Adobe AIR
Adobe AIR has now been installed over 200 million times. Adrian Ludwig of the Adobe AIR team recaps the various territories it has been adopted into: social apps (mostly Twitter apps, I think), enterprise apps (Salesforce, Oracle), government apps (the Polish Finance Ministry), and what I call novelty apps (like the [...]

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Graphical Designers Market - Geniografico

Posted by Charles | June 9, 2009 .

The readers of Flex888 should have known by now we love designers. It’s the designers make the Flex RIA thrive, the Flex developers are taking a nice ride from all the years of creative works. So it’s naturally seeing a graphical designer market place built with Flex. Today I’d like show you Geniográfico. I’m not [...]

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Rounding Up Another Flex 4 and Flash Catalyst Week

Posted by Sravan | June 8, 2009 .

The Adobe Flex team is conducting three free online seminars this week covering the new features of Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst. A session each for PHP developers, Flash Catalyst, and ColdFusion developers will be conducted this Tue, Wed and Thu respectively.
Lee Brimelow uploaded a two-part tutorial on Flex Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst.
Carlos [...]

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ESRI Sample Flex Viewer is on Tour de Flex

Posted by Charles | June 2, 2009 .

The Sample Flex Viewer from ESRI is up on Tour De Flex now. The Sample Flex Viewer developed using ESRI ArcGIS API for Flex and Adobe Flex. This sample viewer was designed to showcase some of the core capabilities of the ArcGIS Platform through a simple, modern, Web2.0 style and RIA based user interface. This [...]

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