Flex Programming Tips of the Week 0805a

A lot of interesting experiments are going on with Flex especially in animations and graphics. This week I thought giving a few of them a closer look along with other stuff Chart Drill down Animations Complete with source this one is sure to give you good hang of things on how to develop a drill down where basically a user can venture out to detailed information from a summary level. Flex Graphics Masks This one really is good point to learn all about mask objects and how to implement them. It’s well written with good code snippets and has […] Continue Reading…

Flash Lite + Java ME = Cool Mobile Platform

In an exiting development Sony Ericsson has been able gel two of most popular development platforms in mobile computing through its new technology called ‘Project Capuchin’. It intends to combine the best of two worlds, Adobe Flash Lite and the Java ME development platform thus opening up a sea of possibilities for developers. The Java ME development platform is the technology of choice for most mobile application developers because of its security and stronger back-end capabilities. Java has APIs that allow it to access mobile phone functionalities like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, etc. Adobe Flash Lite on the other hand […] Continue Reading…

PixelPerfect, a Little Perfect AIR Tool

Among the various AIR applications that have caught my fancy, PixelPerfect stood out for its sleek implementation (pure AS3) and it usability. Essentially it is designed to let you measure the accurate size of entity’s of your desktop. This software lets you take the measure of objects in pixels. It comes with multiple resizable rulers and also in addition to it multiple windows to swap between projects or the same project. Since it can have many images or movie files in the same project.
It utilizes highlights, toning, colors, and transparent windows with chrome effects. Rulers and measures are always […] Continue Reading…

How to Load a Cross Domain File in AS3

In today’s internet world, web sites are using more catchy and snazzy videos to gain people’s interest and to capture larger market share. In this process site developers are been troubled to check out the stuff from other servers due to security reasons. As usage of cross border data is often a necessity it is therefore prudent to validate it. Thankfully Action Script 3 does this job with ease thus giving the opportunity to the developers to create a link between servers while keeping security intact.

Simply put policy files are basically XML files that essentially grants permission to the […] Continue Reading…

How to Get Sound Spectrum Information with AS3?

These days’ sound files are being readily introduced to jazz up the web pages. Once we have the preferred tracks onto our site many of us may be tempted to try our hands at creating visualizations similar to the look and feel of popular media player applications. In order to display such visualizations it is necessary to gain the related sound spectrum information.

Now if you were thinking that getting this information with AS3 is a tough ask, then you will be surprised find out that all you need is to write is just few lines of code and your […] Continue Reading…

Breaking News: Java World Has been Stirring Up by Spring

InfoQ just revealed a very significant new development in the Java world, SpringSource launches a new application server without following the Java EE standards. According to InfoQ: SpringSource Application Platform is not a Java EE application server. While it does support WAR deployment, EAR deployment is not supported nor are some other EE specs such as EJB. The SpringSource Application Platform has been designed from the ground up to instead focus directly on supporting the widely used Spring Portfolio of open source projects. Specifically, the application server builds on the Spring Portfolio programming model leveraging Spring Dynamic Modules […] Continue Reading…