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Category Archives: Flex
How not to frag your Flex Team (or ‘How to prevent . actionScriptProperties and other files from getting checked into SVN)
The situation: you wake up one morning and update your flash builder project, only to get an error message saying there is a conflict in .actionScriptProperties. Images of the rap video Who Broke the Build suddenly rise up out of … Continue reading
Posted in Adobe, Flash, Flex 4, RIA
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Capital Flash Camp 2010 : A brief recap
I attended Flash Camp in DC today and though I would share my initial impressions, given that we were at 360 Flex not too long ago and a lot of attention is being given to the upcoming Flash & the … Continue reading
Posted in ActionScript, Adobe, Design, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Flex, Flex 3 -> Flex 4 Migration, Flex 4, Illustrator, Photoshop, RIA, Software Architecture, UXD, Wireframing
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Flex 3 Word Wrapping Does Work Afterall
Turns out that word wrapping in Flex 3 datagrids does work after all. After adding wordWrap=”true” to Flex 3 datagrid columns to no effect and much fustration I came across this solution/explanation by Bruce Phillips. In short, you need to … Continue reading
Two-way Data Binding in Flex 4
In Flex 3 we created a data binding expression using curly braces, like so: <TextInput label="textInput1" /> <TextInput label="textInput2" text="{textInput1.text}" /> In Flex 3 if you wanted to make the binding two-way, you had to make a second binding expression. … Continue reading
Posted in Adobe, Flex, Flex 3 -> Flex 4 Migration, Flex 4
Tagged Flex 3 -> Flex 4 Migration, Flex 4
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would the REAL iPhone killer please stand up?
Certain defenders of Apple’s stance on excluding the Flash platform from Mobile Safari, such as Daring Fireball have been trying to flip the argument, saying that Flash is an outdated technology, the concept of browser plugins is outdated, and that … Continue reading
Web to Print: Client Side PDF Generation from Adobe Flex / AS3
Generally when the question of PDF generation from Adobe Flex applications comes up, the defacto answer has been ‘use LiveCycle’ or some other server-side technology to handle the PDF generation. But sometimes we don’t have the option of using a … Continue reading
Posted in AIR, ActionScript, Adobe, Balsamiq Mockups, Flash, Flex, RIA
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takeaway from MAX: iPhone & Mobile development from Flex and Flash
There were lots of news and sneaks at the Adobe MAX conference this week, and fortunately a lot of it is available in a couple places: a) Adobe MAX Online Site b) most of the sessions are now available on … Continue reading
Making the transition to Flex 4: The Package Explorer
It seems lately that there are a lot of UI changes in new Adobe products. The other day I was trying to give someone quick Flash tips, I happened to be using CS4 for the first time and found I … Continue reading
review: Creating Visual Experiences with Flex 3.0 by Juan Sanchez & Andy McIntosh
The short version: Juan & Andy rock, Addison Wesley SUCKS. Continue reading
Posted in ActionScript, Adobe, Flash Catalyst, Flex, RIA, Software Architecture, Thermo, UXD
Tagged ActionScript, Adobe, anaara, book, effective, Flex, programming, review, ui, UXD
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Web 4.0?!? GE leverages Flash player in a whole new way with the FlarToolKit
I saw this tweet by crashmedia and was totally blown away by this video demo showing an implementation of FlarToolKit: The demo is by Robert Cooper, creative director of some company (couldn’t quite make out the name from the video, … Continue reading