Archive for April, 2009
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009TweetWant to learn more about how to use LocalConnection between AIR applications? Want to see how you can launch an installed AIR application from a second AIR application? Want to see how PseudoThreading works? If you said yes to any of these, be sure to check out my 360|Flex Indianapolis presentation titled “Building an AIR [...]
Flex Formatting, my new best friend!
Monday, April 27th, 2009TweetI recently stumbled across the Flex Formatting project for eclipse on SourceForge and it has made me so very happy! If you haven’t use this awesome plugin yet, you should as soon as possible. So, what does it do? Well, as the name suggests, it formats your ActionScript and MXML. Once you have this plugin [...]
Rounded Colorized Image Borders
Friday, April 24th, 2009TweetThis week I ran across a really cool demo application using images within Flex. Russel Brown’s SmartImage component will take an image, add a rounded border and colorize that border based on the average colors within the image. Here is a live sample (View Source is Enabled): [kml_flashembed fversion="8.0.0" movie="http://everythingflex.com/flex3/SmartImageTest/SmartImageTest.swf" targetclass="flashmovie" publishmethod="static" width="500" height="400"] [/kml_flashembed] [...]
51 Great AS3 & Flex tips
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009TweetI just published a new article from Sean Moore over on InsideRIA titled “51 ActionScript 3.0 and Flex optimization techniques and practices” where he has laid out 51 performance tips for AS3 and Flex. Check it out, it is chock full of really great information.
MAX Session Deadline is Today
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009Tweet Reminder that today is the last day for MAX Los Angeles session submissions. You can use the public form at http://groups.adobe.com/pages/5fbd55f575.
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