Archive for March, 2010
Flash Embrace – Flash on Chrome: Bravo Google!
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010TweetWhat a great day. While many of the Apple kool aid drinkers are eagerly awaiting the arrival of their so called Flash death machine known as the iPad, Adobe and Google have announced Flash Embrace. Flash Embrace is a commitment by Google to include the Flash Player in the distribution of its Chrome Browser. So, [...]
Flash Builder 4: Create a twitter search UI in minutes!
Monday, March 29th, 2010TweetOne of the coolest features about the new Flash builder 4 IDE is the code generation abilities for connecting to services and building UI. This was the subject of one of my MAX 2009 sessions and that presentation is still available here. In this demo,I am going to show how easy it is to create [...]
Flex 4 & Flash Builder 4 are Here!
Monday, March 22nd, 2010TweetAdobe has made it official. Adobe Flex 4 SDK is final and now available at the open source site. Adobe Flash Builder 4 is also now available. I highly suggest you get involved with Flex 4 as soon as possible as it will make your life much easier. Updates like the new state management, component [...]
How is the 360|Flex conference going?
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010TweetIf you are at the 360|Flex conference this week, please let me know how it was by answering this simple poll. Click here to vote!
F3 v. F4: Using ViewStack, TabNavigator and Accordion
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010TweetYou have probably used mx:ViewStack, mx:TabNavigator and mx:Accordion somewhere in your Flex development efforts over the last 5+ years and had code that looks like this: 1234567891011121314151617181920212223<mx:TabNavigator width="400" height="200" horizontalCenter="0" y="15"> <mx:VBox label="Tab 1"> <mx:Label text="This is tab 1"/> </mx:VBox> <mx:VBox label="Tab 2"> [...]