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 but handy modification to the viewer container. Such as the mouse’s lat/lon location is displayed on the control bar. The theme has changed to green too.

Good job!

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 licensing scheme (comparable to the 3rd party components available for Silverlight) would be perfect. Apart from ILOG Elixir (that comes with problematic licensing options) there’s hardly anything out there. Even Dough Mcune with his fantastic Flexlib library seems to have given up.”One reader Ricardo [...] Continue Reading…

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 comes with its own mobile Flex Framework to deal with mobile UI and accessing mobile data such as geo locations. Once the code compiled with it, the app can be deployed to iPhone, Android phone, Symbian phone and Windows Mobile phone. Is that great!?It [...] Continue Reading…

Many Flash Graphic Examples with Source Code

If you are looking for ideas of creative graphic effects, this site, uncontrol, is a good place. It has all sorts of Flash graphics. You can play it at its Flash site. The best part is that you can download the source code and look under the hood and learn who they are done.

Apple Tablet Confirmed runs on iPhone OS

CEO of McGraw-Hill has confirmed in an interview to CNBC today that Apple is going to announce their Tablet on 27th and it will run on iPhone OS. Here is the interviewer:

“Yeah, Very exciting. Yes, they’ll make their announcement tomorrow on this one. We have worked with Apple for quite a while. And the Tablet is going to be based on the iPhone operating system and so it will be transferable. So what you are going to be able to do now — we have a consortium of e-books. And we have 95% of all our materials that are [...] Continue Reading…

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 is generated across the organization throughout various parts of the process from setting priorities through Ecoregional assessments to developing strategies, taking action and tracking results as part of Conservation Projects to managing information on properties we purchase to protect. This viewer is configured using [...] Continue Reading…

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 on the post, Bouwman not only reskined the viewer’s UI, but also add new capabilities such as the supports of OpenStreeMap and CloudMade. Best of all, Dave is willing to share his with the community.

Dave’s work have been cheered by his readers. So, check [...] Continue Reading…

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 codeModule Loading external contentOptimize Flex design and CSSUsing sub-applicationFor the details, go read it.

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.>