I’ll be filling in for Mykola Bilokonsky with a presentation on Blackberry Playbook development for the Columbus Digital AUG tomorrow, Tuesday the 11th at 6:30 EST. UPDATE: View the recording! We’ll step though environment setup, including the Tablet OS simulator, SDK tools for Flash Builder, Throwing together a quick app and compiling a .bar file …
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Last evening, I was interviewed by Jeffry Houser and John Wilker of The Flex Show with a focus on Flex Development in Higher Education. We chatted about a general overview of Flex and education, some Flex projects I’m involved with at the University of Denver, a bit about the Adobe Education Leader program, and emerging …
I’ve published the source of my AIR for Android Flex 4.5 “Hero” example application “My Shit-List!” to a GitHub repository. One of the really neat things in this example, aside from the new Flex mobile stuff, is the integration of FlexORM in the project to simplify my use of SQLite databases. FlexORM is an Object …
I was recently invited to start producing content for ActiveTuts+ (a great bunch of people!) and my three-part series on using the AS3XLS libraries in Flex has now been published in its entirety. Best viewed in full screen, of course: Using AS3XLS with the Flex Framework: Excel Import This tutorial will cover implementation of the …
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We all know that ColdFusion allows Flash Remoting (AMF) communication to occur via two separate URL strings: http://my.site.com/flex2gateway http://my.site.com/flashservices/gateway I recently came across the problem where the URL Rewrite rules in IIS7 were blocking both of these URLs from being passed on and correctly processed by ColdFusion. The solution is to add the following two rules …
In working on a small utility application (Adobe AIR) this week, I came across a pretty major memory leak in the beta Open Source Media Framework based Spark components in Flex 4.1 final. The utility I am building grabs over 10,000 video clip records from our media repository and then systematically goes through and renders …
Say you have a Spark List in your application with a TileLayout and drag options toggled on: But when you drag item up the list, depending upon your itemRenderer, it may take forever for the list to scroll… and the areas which trigger scroll up and down the list view are tiny in comparison. You …
I came across a strange situation over the weekend where a custom event being broadcast through dispatchEvent() was not being caught by the registered listener object. To make things even more bizarre, hasEventListener() definitely showed the event as registered, and I could even trace the type out through willTrigger(). Relevant example code is below: private …
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While building a little Twitter aggregator for an upcoming conference, I found myself in need of a set of methods to create hyperlinks from three distinct elements that can be included within a tweet; links, usernames, and hashtags. I was able to find regular expressions to do all the heavy lifting from various sources on …
The more I work with Flex 4, the more I understand why certain choices were made regarding the new component architecture, especially in regard to skinning. I stumbled, at first, as the skinning model is quite different and can appear much more cumbersome at first glance. Like most Flex devs, I was used to just …
Every once in a while, Flash Builder loses its mind when I attempt to debug a project and tells me that I don’t have a debug version of Flash Player on my machine. I do… FB is just crazy. Right. Sometimes it’s looking at the player running in the browser, in which case I just …
The music distributor CD Baby just completed a huge update over the weekend. Looks like they have some Flex going on in the user admin area: It’s just the default Flex styling, so it’s pretty obvious- very cool to see, nonetheless!