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 I'm finishing writing a book for O'Reilly "Enterprise Development with Flex". It's my 6th one. Yesterday, I got an email from a person asking if I'd like to write a new book on software. Here's what came to my mindJun. 7, 2009 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 372 |
 Flex framework’s current stable version is 3.x and the Flex team at Adobe is actively working on getting the version 4.x ready this year. At this time, the core SDK of Flex 4, codenamed Gumbo, is evolving through an open source process. From peeking into its initial version, it looks p...May. 16, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 552 |
 Starting Monday May 18, 2009 fun begins at Indianapolis. No, not the car race; its 360 Flex! 360 Flex is a unique and special event for many reasons, namely: Its the one and only event dedicated completely to Flex (and AIR).
Its an informal event that is run for te community, by the c...May. 16, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 487 |
We'll be a two day training workshop "Flex for Architects" that will take place in Boston, MA on May 21-22, 2009. During registration at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/295389518, enter the discount code flex100 to get $100 of the tuitiion. Apr. 24, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 483 |
Tomorrow is the last day for submitting papers for Adobe's main conference called Max'09. I've submitted two proposals - one's called "Practical Design Patterns in Flex", and the other one is titled "Data Synchronization. Apr. 24, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 365 |
 In the first part of this article dedicated on AIR menus you've learned how to create an AIR native menu (read the full Creating AIR native menu with Flash CS4 - Part 1 article). In this new article you'll learn how to create an AIR submenu item using the NativeMenuItem class with Flas...Apr. 17, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,815 |
 The AIR runtime allows you to manage and interact with the system tray and dock bar icons of your application. You can define context menus for them. On Microsoft Windows systems, the icons in the system tray don’t have any default context menus, so unless you have a specially prepared...Apr. 17, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,393 |
 Adobe Flex and Flash are the ideal technology for Rich Internet Applications because you can build those applications with reusable components that are Loosely Coupled. In his session, learn how you can create an On-Demand Authoring Environment for creating Rich Internet Applications b...Sep. 20, 2008 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,478 Replies: 1 |
 Enterprises are enthusiastically embracing the shift from traditional client/server computing to SaaS. Inspired by customers who have embraced the Web, developers are using RIA tools to create innovative new on-demand business applications. One important factor in the shift from tradit...Sep. 20, 2008 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,110 |
Enterprises are enthusiastically embracing the shift from traditional client/server computing to SaaS. Inspired by customers who have embraced the web, developers are using RIA tools to create innovative new on-demand business applications. One important factor in the shift from tradit... Sep. 14, 2008 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,911 |
In this session Thomas will share his experience in migrating from AJAX to Flex, the advantages/disadvantages that Flex has as the primary client for a consumer web-based SaaS product, and his vision of how Flex + AIR via any desktop + Mobile (in one or more technical forms) takes us a... Aug. 11, 2008 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,664 Replies: 1 |
4D announced the release of 4D Web 2.0 Pack v11 Release 2. The new version, a combination of two products - 4D AJAX Framework and 4D for Flex - brings a powerful set of tools, plug-ins, and components that allow 4D developers to harness the power of Web 2.0 technologies, and deliver li... Jul. 25, 2008 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,085 |
 Read about Forrester's findings on RIA security included in a Forrester Research paper valued at $775 titled 'Securing Rich Internet Applications' by Jeffrey Hammond, plus find out about Curl's Security Architecture in a new Curl white paper titled 'Developing Secure Rich Internet Appl...Jul. 25, 2008 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,179 |
In today's complex web application world, developers need to test applications that go beyond simple HTTP-based pages. They need to test Rich Internet Applications that incorporate complex technologies like Adobe's Flex. Adobe Flex applications may be different from applications you wo... Jul. 19, 2008 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,715 |
 Following the private Beta release last month, DreamFace Interactive announced the general availability of the DreamFace-Fx Mashup Kit for Adobe Flex. As promised, DreamFace-Fx is the first Mashup Kit to reach developers in a comprehensive roadmap which will extend the DreamFace Open S...Jun. 30, 2008 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,239 |
2008 is going to be an important year for Rich Internet Applications. Most organizations are delivering or planning to deliver Rich Internet Applications; however, at the same time, most IT managers are facing a dilemma: which Rich Internet Application technology and platform to use? T... Jun. 20, 2008 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 35,735 Replies: 2 |
Flex 2 was released in the Summer of 2006 and it was a mini-revolution in the RIA space. Almost nobody knew about Flex 1.5, but now almost everyone has at least heard about this software. Flex 3 was released in early 2008. It has a number of useful new features, but it was not a major ... May. 7, 2008 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,211 |
 Vectors supporting types are the part of next release - and are billed more of performance/coding help then language enhancement. Most of the Java 5 constructs are not really applicable to ActionScript 3 - for fair comparison you need to use Java 7/8 with dynamic scripting language sup...Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 7,916 |
 Adobe has put an alpha pre-release of AIR for Linux up in hopes, it says, of getting feedback from the community, not to mention winning adherents. It's English-only. The company also joined the Linux Foundation to encourage the growth of RIA technologies on Linux, it said. The company...Apr. 4, 2008 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 12,386 |
 Fast-spreading rich Internet applications require new skills for development of what was known as boring-looking enterprise applications. In the past, development of the user interface was done by software developers to the best of their design abilities. A couple of buttons here, a gr...Mar. 30, 2008 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 14,574 Replies: 5 |
If I could pass just one Flex advice that would be: Use Data Transfer Objects. Use custom Data Transfer Objects to pass data between server and Flash tiers of your Flex application. Do not use XML. Yes, I know that XML cool. Do not use raw objects. Feb. 25, 2008 05:30 AM EST Reads: 9,927 |
Parleys.com is a great Web site with lots of recoded videos of technical presentations on a wide variety of Java-related topics. While the original version of Parleys has been created in AJAX, more advanced Flex and AIR versions are now available too. I had a chance to chat with a man... Feb. 18, 2008 07:00 PM EST Reads: 9,921 |
OK, car manufactures go Flex. Will they lose or gain customers because of that? Car manufacturers want to have fancy consumer sites. It's a world of RIA, and having interactive Web sites should bring more people to car dealerships. But poorly performing Web site can turn into lost rev... Feb. 16, 2008 01:15 PM EST Reads: 7,449 Replies: 2 |
This is the first in a series of articles that will cover best practices of Flex development using the code of the soon-to-be-released open source class library theriabook. These components were developed by Flex and Java architects from Farata Systems. Over the past couple of years we... Feb. 14, 2008 02:45 AM EST Reads: 15,315 |
Earth Live is an application that EffectiveUI has created in collaboration with Discovery channel. The application helps people to learn the world by engaging them with a more effective UI, so complex information such as climate change can be digestible by a regular person. The appl... Feb. 11, 2008 12:00 AM EST Reads: 7,766 Replies: 1 |
We are entering an era of Rich Internet Applications (RIA), and many enterprise development managers are facing the dilemma - which way to go - remain with tried and true Java or .NET technologies or less known (as yet) yet AJAX, Flex, OpenLaszlo... Feb. 10, 2008 11:15 AM EST Reads: 46,082 Replies: 4 |
Flex is an open source product, which means that you can fix the bugs on your own. This may fork out the product, but that's another story altogether. On the other hand, developers can vote for the bugs so the Flex team can fix them. I remain cautiously optimistic that Flex team will b... Feb. 7, 2008 06:45 AM EST Reads: 6,633 |
Action Message Format (AMF) is a protocol that is used to serialize the data coming into Flash Player or going out to other programming environments that need to communicate with Flash Player. Say, if you create in Java an instance of the class MyOrder, this instance can be converted i... Feb. 4, 2008 11:30 AM EST Reads: 6,255 Replies: 1 |
The Adobe Flex enterprise market picks up really fast, and it's obvious that the need for Flex developers will only get bigger and bigger. The question is what kind of Flex developers are in huge demand. I'll share with you the experience of our company, but first, let's look at the d... Feb. 4, 2008 11:30 AM EST Reads: 8,065 |
Unless your Flex 2 project has to go to production this month, switch to Flex 3. Now. Flex 3 final Beta days are almost over and it brings you lots of goodies. If you are still thinking of using AJAX or JSF for your data intensive business application, just stop it, will you! Just take... Feb. 1, 2008 02:45 PM EST Reads: 10,355 |
I ran into an interesting blog written by a Flash programmer who feels that Adobe's promotion of Flex puts him and other Flash programmers at a disadvantage. And he knows how to resist! Jan. 31, 2008 05:00 PM EST Reads: 9,451 |
Less than 10 years ago, still in its infancy, the Internet was a land of promise for businesses. Companies saw bright new ways to increase their agility, reach more customers and to deliver new, never-before-seen services. Unquestionably since then it has transformed the way consumers ... Jan. 31, 2008 04:00 PM EST Reads: 38,241 |
 The main concern of any project manager is if there are enough people in the pool of Flex developers to staff the project. Yes, there is a pool of Flex developers, but let's look at the creature called 'Flex Developer' under the microscope. If you are considering adding Flex to your se...Jan. 15, 2008 07:15 AM EST Reads: 14,820 |
 Redmond Developer News has published an interview with Dr. James Gosling, creator of the Java language, where among other things, he talks about JavaFX and competing technologies. And he made a comment I can't agree with. Here it is: 'If you look at something like Flash, when you get t...Jan. 9, 2008 10:00 AM EST Reads: 19,441 Replies: 4 |
Time Magazine has published their version of the 50 best Web sites of 2007. Check it out. You may or may not agree with their ranking, but I'm sure you'll find some interesting sites there that you did not know about. It's good to see that Time has started using Adobe Flex too. Jan. 3, 2008 07:00 AM EST Reads: 12,616 Replies: 2 |
This started as a Skype chat room conversation between my colleague Anatole Tartakovsky and myself, and I thought that it would be a good idea to invite more Flex developers to join this discussion. Having said this, I'd like to make it clear that over my career, I've been developing f... Dec. 27, 2007 09:45 AM EST Reads: 15,422 Replies: 1 |
 In Java world, the solution to this issue is pretty simple. A typical Java application consists of a number of .jar files (think libraries or swc) and there is a concept of a class path. If a program needs to use a class MyGreatCreation, the Java class loader tries to find it based on ...Dec. 25, 2007 01:30 PM EST Reads: 19,299 |
Just two of the text fields on your Flex window have to support the mouse wheel. The user turns the wheel, the numeric field in these fields is incremented or decremented. Let's do it. Dec. 21, 2007 11:00 AM EST Reads: 9,998 |
Release of BlazeDS is a great help from the Flex enterprise adoption perspective. On the technical side, BlazeDS provides a lightweight replacement for LiveCycle Data Services ES. The remoting part seems to be identical to the LCDS offering. But how the LCDS implementation is different... Dec. 20, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 9,914 Replies: 1 |
There are different ways of connecting Web clients written in Flex with the server-side applications being that Java, PHP, Ruby on Rails, ASP or anything else that can generate HTTP responses. Up till today, the least expensive way was by using Flex objects HTTPService or WebService.... Dec. 13, 2007 01:30 PM EST Reads: 14,594 |
