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Flex Camp Italy Presentation Live Today!

Rich Tretola — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:20:30 +0000

I will be presenting to Flex Camp Italy today (Saturday 9/5) @ 12:10PM Eastern Time. This presentation will be available as a live stream on Adobe Connect at http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/tretola_fc/. The online stream has limited space so if you are interested in checking it out, please arrive in the room early. Here are the details: Title: Flex image loading [...]

GeneralRelativity Flash Animation Library

Rich Tretola — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:51:02 +0000

Some may say there are too many animation libraries for AS3, I disagree and fortunately so does Drew Cummins from GeneralRelativity.org as has given us a new Flash Animation Library. For more information please visit the original post here. Here is the demo: Tweet This! Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Share this [...]

Flash Builder (formally Flex Builder)

Rich Tretola — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:56:50 +0000

Adobe has re branded Flex Builder as Flash Builder in order to remove confusion over the outcome of the tool. How do you feel about this? Do you think this name change will accomplish this goal or will it simply lead to additional confusion over what the purposes are for Flash CS4, Flash Catalyst, Flex [...]

Flex Formatting, my new best friend!

Rich Tretola — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:53:20 +0000

I 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

Rich Tretola — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:00:19 +0000

This 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): Here is a simple [...]