LocalConnection – Maintaing connection between AIR applications
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009In my 360Flex presentation last week in Indianapolis I used LocalConnection to communicate between two AIR applications. Here is a very simple sample of how I set up the two applications to talk to each other.
So, the general concept is this. I have 2 AIR applications, one is the Primary and the other is [...]
Flex Formatting, my new best friend!
Monday, April 27th, 2009I 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 [...]
51 Great AS3 & Flex tips
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009I 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.
FlashBook, Adobe & Facebook Partner Up
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Adobe and Facebook have announced a new partnership have created a new AS3 library to continue to simplify the integration of the Flash Player and the Facebook platform.
Documentation, example applications and code are now available at http://www.adobe.com/go/facebook.
ECMAScript 4.0 Gone, My Reaction
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Well, I just got back from a nice weekend reunion with some College friends and I am greeted with the news that ECMAScript 4 has been officially killed in favor of ECMAScript 3.1.
Adobe has included many things in ActionScript 3 (like packages, namespaces, bindings, etc) that were all proposed for ECMAScript 4 and will [...]