Flex Viewer Sighting in Dubai
Flex Viewer travels around the world. I was at GISWORX in Dubai running a series of workshops. Surprised (shouldn’t) to find there were two Viewers running in such a small exhibition setting that demonstrated the latest GIS development from two reginal goverment organizations, one was from Dubai and another one was from Abu Dhabi. The [...]
The most comprehensive explaination of Flex 4 Skin
One of the biggest change you will encounter when develop or migrate to Flex 4 is the spark skin creation. It’s a big leap to separate UI design from programming. There are many resources available to start tutoring the skin development. I found the best one so far among them is this slides created by [...]
Calhoun County on Flex Viewer
Here is another Flex Viewer sighting. The Calhoun County of Alabama has setup this Flex Viewer to allow citizen search parcel information and properties sales information. They also created a Google Street View widget that allows click at a street on the map to view Google Street View in a popup.
Noticeably there are other small [...]
Does Flex Need Support for Comerical Component Libraries?
Tom Van den Eynde wrote a post about Flex and commercial component libraries. From Tom’s view Adobe lacks a component library update. They have Spark around the corner but that’s a two-year in making.
“As far as I’m concerned Adobe doesn’t have to come up with these components itself. Third party components with a decent [...]
Flex on iPhone
While Adobe is struggling to get Flash 10.1 on iPhone and other trying hard with different route, OpenPlug sees this opportunity and seems done it right and more.
This one is a Flex Builder plug-in (well, Eclipse plug-in) that once installed (Windows only so far), you can develop mobile applications just like developing Flex applications. It [...]
Flex Viewer Going Green for Nature Conservation
Here is another of the Flex Viewer sighting, Core Conservation Data Viewer. This is from the Nature Conservancy a conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people.
Spatial data and related information plays a vital role in conservation at The Nature Conservancy. A wealth of data [...]
Creative Customization of the Flex Viewer
While I’m head-down crafting the Flex Viewer 2.0, there are some creative Flex developers have been busy too making impressive customizations to the Flex Viewer 1.x. Let me start introducing these geo flexers to the community.
Dave Bouwman is one of them. Couple of months ago Bouwman re-mixed the Flex Viewer and wrote about it. Based [...]
Optimize Flex SWF
As an Adobe Flex developer you should pay great attention to performance. Sati at AskMeFlash wrote nice post about optimizing Flex SWF to reduce its size and improve loading performance.
In the post, Sati summarized in the following areas:
Implement RLS in your project.
Create SWC file of your common code
Module
Loading external content
Optimize Flex design and CSS
Using sub-application
For [...]
Haiti Geo Info on Flex Viewer
The Flex Viewer has been deployed for many geoweb type of application through out the world. You can view Haiti geo information from the Flex Viewer based ESRI GEO VIewer.
You can check out the viewer from Flex RIA lab too.>
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