Turkey Day Travels
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development, General Media / Stuff, MAX 2008, Rich Internet Applications | CommentsIts the day before Thanksgiving, Turkey's eve I guess, the most glorious of American gluttony-days, uh I mean holidays. A wonderful day full of family, football and of course food. Oh the food! I am only being semi-facetious, I ...
Binding Source for Flex 4 in Flex Builder 3
Thursday, August 28th, 2008 Posted in Flash Player, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications, web 2.0 | CommentsYesterday, I sat down and started playing around with trying to get the daily build of the Flex 4 SDK inside Flex Builder 3. After a bit of digging I finally got it all running and compiling as expected. ...
VivMedia Code Library: Version 0.03 released
Saturday, July 19th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Distribution, Flash Player, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications, Self Reference, web 2.0, web integration | CommentsI pushed a new version of the library yesterday to Google Code. This is a relatively small release, which was not really my intention for version 0.03. Originally, I was planning on adding the first of a series ...
VivMedia Code: Selection Controller
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications | CommentsWith the previous release of version 0.02 of the code base I added a new class called the SelectionController that enables you to treat items that implement the ISelectable interface as a selection group. As promised, this is the ...
Adobe kuler Desktop Sneak Peek
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Posted in Adobe APIs, Flash Player, Rich Internet Applications, kuler, web 2.0, web integration | CommentsA new version of Adobe kuler desktop is now here and ready for you download! Recently, I have been providing Flash and AIR development for the wonderful people in Adobe's Emerging Creative Technologies (ECT) team and I wanted to share ...
VivMedia Code Library: Version 0.02 Released
Friday, June 6th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications | CommentsIts been a busy few weeks for me (with work and personal projects) but I am happy to say that version 0.02 of the VivMedia library is now available. This update includes a fully automated Unit Test suite for ...
VivMedia Code: the HashTable
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications | CommentsOne of my favorite, and until recently, most used classes in Flex was the ArrayCollection. The ArrayCollection is a powerful data-structure that acts similarly to an Array but provides an extended API that provide shortcuts to data access. A ...
Flex 4: New MXML States Specification
Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in Flash Player, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications | CommentsTed over at OnFlex posted a link to the new Flex 4 MXML states spec and I sat down to read it. After finishing the spec, I thought long and hard about it and finally decided to add my ...
Is it Flex?
Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development | CommentsEarlier this morning my friend Aaron hit me up with an IM asking if I had seen SearchMe.com. It is a new visual search engine that is 100% Flash Player based and he was curious if it was Flex. ...
Adobe Kuler 2.0 is live!
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in Flash Player, Rich Internet Applications, kuler, web 2.0, web integration | CommentsAdobe Kuler is a Flash based web application (and now with an available AIR version) that helps designers and developers with color themes. Designers can design their own color theme using the Kuler create tools, submit their theme to ...