The State of Flex Development Ecosystem Reviewed
I spent some time last weekend went over my weaponry cache for Flex development and put out a post on InfoQ.com that reviewed current state of Flex development ecosystem. Go check it out.
I did missed couple of great Flex tools:
FunFx is Flex testing tools that uses Ruby to write the test script. It’s fun and [...]
Good example for learning Flex 4 Skining
The Flex 4 learning curve will be from Spark and its new skin programming model. Here is another source to learn a few things from, Christonphoe Coenraets’s post Creating a Custom Component and Skins in Flex 4.
Coenraets created webcam app that takes pictures and display them. He skinned the application differently while maintaining the same [...]
Flash Builder 4 with PHP Services
Came across this post about Flash Builder 4 with PHP services. It’s very interesting for people doing integration between Flex 4 and LAMP server development.
It used AMFphp and Adobe Catalyst also involved ZEND Framework. I think it’s especially helpful for Flex developers who start thinking of using Catalyst. This will have your expectation in check, [...]
What Adobe is up to - MAX Thought
Back from MAX. Realized Adobe is a new company now. It was a desktop software company with a niche market in the graphic design and creativity tools area. Through organic growth and acquisitions (mainly Macromedia in 05)
Adobe is evolving into a developer focused IT platform company and gaining acceptance and great respect among development communities. [...]
3 ActionScript 3 Cheat Sheets
Here are three ActionScript 3.0 Cheat Sheets from a similar named blog.
Top Level Class Cheatsheetdownload from here.
flash.display Package Cheatsheetdownload from here
Packages Cheatsheetdownload from here.
It always have something handy around for a handyman.
Check Spelling When You Can - new Spell Checker for Flash AIR Flex
I wrote about ActionScript Spell Checker and 10 more others you can use in your Flash based RIA. Here is one more from Adobe: Squiggly.
Squiggly is a spell checking engine for Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR. The Squiggly library allows you to easily add spell checking functionality in any Flex 3 based text control. [...]
Google Takes on Flash and Silverlight with Chrome Frame
In my 10 RIA Predictions for 2009 No. 3 I said “Google will release a RIA runtime to beat Flex, Silverlight, Firefox and everybody else for UI spaces.” I am right!
Google released the Google Chrome Frame yesterday (9/22/09).
It’s a plugin, as I predicted. So far it’s only for IE. “With Google Chrome Frame, developers [...]
Rounding Up A Week of Acquisitions
Google’s justification for acquiring reCAPTCHA makes a lot more sense than Adobe’s for acquiring Omniture. However, Adobe’s announcement of the release of Adobe Flash Access throws a new light on the acquisition and it now appears that perhaps Omniture does fit in.
Sarah Perez reported an example of what could go wrong with cloud services. That [...]
POP with Flex Viewer
I’ve seen stores for Halloween stuffs poping up already. It’s not a surprise the web will be haunted too. The Paranormal Operating Picture (POP) is a good use of the Flex Viewer for Center for Paranormal Research and Investigation.
You might want to spend a bit of time to play with it. I’m sure you will [...]
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