I had the opportunity to present a 4.5 hr lecture on Building Rich Internet Applications at ACM’s Compute 2010 today. We started out by defining what an RIA is and exploring the various RIA platforms available, we then further explored the Flash Platform in more detail, wrote some experimental code to understand the internals of Flash Player, looked at Flex 4 and its various new features and also spent some time understanding the Flex Component Lifecycle Here’s the slide deck from beginning of the lecture which tries to define what an RIA is and explores the architecture a typical…
RIA (Rich Internet Apps)
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Mrinal Wadhwa
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An Introduction to Rich Internet Applications
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Going Commando in Flash Builder
2 Dec 2009 | 5:49 pmAlong with the Custom Components in Flex 4 presentation I shared yesterday, I also gave a 15 minute lightening talk at Adobe DevSummit on Keyboard Productivity in Flash Builder, this was just a quick show and tell where I walked people through various ways of what Jeff Atwood calls Going Commando … Shortcuts Here are some Flash Builder Keyboard shortcuts I use very frequently, if you have suggestions on others that are especially handy, please let me know … CMD + 3 - the swiss knife of a commando, jump to anywhere inside eclipse CMD + SHIFT + T - find type CMD + SHIFT + R - find… -
Custom Components in Flex 4
1 Dec 2009 | 3:21 amI gave a presentation on Custom Components in Flex 4 at Adobe Devsummit last week in Chennai and today in Hyderabad, here’s the slidedeck where we create an Imperial StormTrooper component -
Flash, Erlang and Realtime Collaborative Interfaces
27 Nov 2009 | 6:49 pmI’ve been learning Erlang for the past few weeks and loving the simplicity and beauty of the language. As part of a discussion at SAP TechEd, last week, I ended up creating a simple, rather rudimentary prototype of a realtime messaging server that enables collaborative user interfaces where multiple users can simultaneously work with the same interface … Here’s a video of the code in action … As you watch the above video, note as I drag a rectangle in any one Flash application, its sends AMF encoded binary messages to the server and the server multicasts these messages… -
The state of Enterprise UIs : “It’s a design thinking problem”
8 Sep 2009 | 9:46 amJames Governor of RedMonk yesterday kicked off an interesting discussion about the state of Enterprise User Interfaces, more specifically Enterprise Portals and points out … “… That’s right- less painful for users. Products like IBM WebSphere Portal and SAP Netweaver Portal were supposed to bring much improved user interaction models to enterprise IT, but unfortunately traditional systems-focused IT departments, rather than user interaction specialists and their web brethren, did the work …” James eludes to the crux of the problem in the above quote and Thomas…
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InsideRIA
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RIA Radio Episode 7: Joshua Davis, Branden Hall [HYPE]
8 Feb 2010 | 1:07 pmJoshua Davis and Branden Hall joined us to talk about their latest ActionScript Library/Framework/Ideas called HYPE. We were also joined by Liz Fredrick, Kevin Schmidt, Zach Stepek, and Leif Wells. Listen to this week's podcast (m4a or mp3). You... -
Effects and Animation - Hello! Flex 4
8 Feb 2010 | 6:00 amThis excerpt is from Chapter 4 (Spark containers, view states, effects, and styling) of Hello! Flex 4, by Peter Armstrong. This excerpt is published with permission. Session 18 - Effects and Animation - Hello! Flex 4 In this workshop... -
QOW: iPad; What's your take?
8 Feb 2010 | 5:00 amNow that we have already had the Flash on the iPad discussion, let's take a different look in discussing the iPad. (Please don't start the Flash iPad flame war again) Will you buy one and if so why? Would... -
Educational RIA StrataLogica Combines Quality Map Content with Useful Interface
4 Feb 2010 | 6:00 amDespite formal education's best efforts I still find geography enjoyable which is probably why I've spent way too much playing with Google Earth. Nystrom a Herff Jones company has recently released StrataLogica to harness this and combine it with their own map content for use in the classroom. StrataLogica is an online version of Nystrom's wall map and globe content. -
AIR 2.0 Beta 2 released
2 Feb 2010 | 10:06 amToday Adobe announced the release of the AIR 2.0 beta 2 on Adobe Labs, capping off a successful period of production and demo apps in built in beta 1. Some of the new features include enhanced control over printers, support for TLS/SSL sockets, and increased text input handling.
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Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer
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AIR 2 Beta 2 Available – Much Improved Printing Support
3 Feb 2010 | 3:41 pmIf you missed it yesterday, AIR 2 beta 2 is now available on Adobe labs. This release includes some bug fixes, some optimizations, and a few new features including support for TLS/SSL socket communication and much improved support for interacting with printers. I sat down with the engineer who did a lot of the work on the new printing API and interviewed him about it. He also walked me through a demo of the new features. The APIs let you have complete control over printing and customize the experience. It’s worth checking out. Discussing New Printing Features in the AIR 2 Beta 2 from… -
Important Flex 3.5 Update
2 Feb 2010 | 10:53 pmIf you have updated to Flex 3.5 you want to be sure to grab the new version of the SDK. There is a bug that has been fixed which caused issues with the auto-update UI. Here’s the scoop. The Flex team has released an update to the 3.5 SDK that addresses an issue with the Flex-based AIR auto-update UI packaged within the SDK (SDK-24766). The refreshed build, SDK 3.5a, has only a few files modified in order to fix this issue and this change does not affect the signing and caching of the SDK 3.5 RSLs originally released in December. We encourage all developers using SDK 3.5 to upgrade their… -
HTML and Flash Thoughts
2 Feb 2010 | 5:12 pmKevin Lynch blogged today in response to a number of issues that have cropped up recently and does a great job of laying out both Adobe’s vision for Flash and for web tools. That and a couple of other posts got me thinking a bit. The first is Jeffrey Zeldman’s post. He contrasts Flash with some of the benefits of standards. Most of the time I see “HTML5 is going to kill Flash!!” without any kind of rational conversation on why. Jeffrey does a better job than most. His intro paragraph is a perfect example: Lack of Flash in the iPad (and before that, in the iPhone) is a… -
The Locked iPuzzle
29 Jan 2010 | 1:04 pmSo the iPad came and as expected, everyone can’t stop talking about it. I was cautiously optimistic about Apple’s tablet. I’m a sci-fi fan with a gadget fetish and I was loving the idea of carrying around a computer tablet just like they do in all of the latest science fiction movies. And Apple has a way of completely turning the computing world upside down. They have an elegance and polish that makes the intersection of software and hardware a nirvana. Part of that is because they rule their platforms with an iron fist. The iPhone is obvious. It’s arguably the most… -
On Google, YouTube, HTML5, Adobe, and Flash
21 Jan 2010 | 5:48 pmLast night Google blogged about how they were experimenting with offering some videos on YouTube that support the HTML5 video tag and the H.264 codec, and that work in Chrome and Safari. This is part of TestTube, where YouTube’s engineers test out different products without rolling them into the main YouTube experience. YouTube and Flash obviously have a deep relationship. It was Flash that helped YouTube become one of the most visited sites on the Internet, and YouTube has helped increase penetration of newer versions of Flash Player by rolling out features, like H.264 support, that…
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The Official Flex Team Blog
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Update to Flex SDK 3.5
2 Feb 2010 | 1:37 pmThe Flex team has released an update to the 3.5 SDK that addresses an issue with the Flex-based AIR auto-update UI packaged within the SDK (SDK-24766). The refreshed build, SDK 3.5a, has only a few files modified in order to fix this issue and this change does not affect the signing and caching of the SDK 3.5 RSLs originally released in December. We encourage all developers using SDK 3.5 to upgrade their build to SDK 3.5a to continue their development. The SDK 3.5a can be found in the "Latest Milestone Release Build" table here:… -
Tell Zend about PHP development
26 Jan 2010 | 7:44 amOur friends at Zend are looking for more information about how PHP developers use front-end design and development tools like Flash, Flex and Ajax. The results of the survey will help shape future solutions from Adobe and Zend. Take their online survey to and then be entered in a drawing to win a free Macbook. -
Flex SDK 3.5 Released
5 Jan 2010 | 1:50 pmFlex SDK 3.5, the latest official build, has been released for a few weeks on the Flex Open Source site and can now also be found on the main Adobe.com downloads page with the updated data visualization components. We are not releasing a new version of Flex Builder, but the 3.5 version will work in Flex Builder using the multi-sdk feature. This release supports the security updated runtimes of Flash Player 10.0.42 and AIR 1.5.3. Additionally, it includes key bug fixes in the SDK, which can be viewed here (please login to the bug system to see this list). The Flex 3 Language Reference have… -
Take a 15 minute survey for a chance at great prizes
18 Dec 2009 | 7:56 amWe're calling on you, Flex and Flash users, to tell us the next generation of features you'd like to see. Please take this 15 minute survey, which will help us plan future releases. For those who take the survey you'll be entered to win one of the following prizes: One Apple 64 GB iPod Touch (valued at $399) One Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5K 9 MP Digital Camera with 10x zoom (valued at $350) One of two $250 gift cards from Amazon One of five $100 gift cards from Amazon For more information on the raffle rules, click here. -
Flex Builder Linux Alpha 5 release
24 Nov 2009 | 7:39 pmThe Flex Builder for Linux alpha bits posted on Adobe Labs have been updated to extend the hardcoded timeout period. The current FB Linux Alpha 4 product will expire on Dec. 1st, 2009, so if you are currently using Flex Builder for Linux be sure to download the updated Alpha 5 bits from Adobe Labs prior to Dec. 1st. There are no changes to the functionality of the product in these new bits; however they have been tested on later versions of Linux distros. Please see the release notes posted on Adobe Labs for complete details.
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Visualrinse | Design and Development by Chad Udell
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links for 2010-02-07
7 Feb 2010 | 3:04 pmiPad User Experience Guidelines | UX Magazine Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for the iPad outline how to create user interfaces optimized for the iPad device. According to Apple, the best iPad applications: downplay application UI so that the focus is on content; present content in beautiful, often realistic ways; and take full advantage of device capabilities to enable enhanced interaction. (tags: ipad) code · Video for Everybody! This maight just be the most flexible way to deploy video on your site. Uses HTML5 for complian browsers, falls back to Flash and Quicktime for those… -
links for 2010-02-04
4 Feb 2010 | 3:05 pm52Framework The framework from the future… HTML 5 and CSS3 to the rescue. (tags: css3 html5 framework) Enable CSS pseudo-element selectors in Internet Explorer with IE-CSS3 … Bring some advanced CSS3 stuff to IE7/8 via a simple to implement JS file. Nicd work! (tags: css3 ie7 IE pseudo-selectors) -
links for 2010-02-03
3 Feb 2010 | 3:04 pmCSS Help – CSS / Cascading Style Sheet glossary Having trouble with those terms? Here's asmall reference to help you understand some CSS keywords (tags: css reference glossary) W3's Doctype List If it's a DocType, it's here. (tags: doctype w3c dtd) -
links for 2010-02-02
2 Feb 2010 | 3:04 pmiPad GUI PSD | Teehan+Lax Scalable vector templates for designing iPad UIs? Well, I may just take you up on that. (tags: ipad iphone_development) iPhone CSS—tips for building iPhone websites — CSS Wizardry—CSS, Web Standards, Typography, and Grids by Harry Roberts Some quick tricks on building a mobile webkit friendly site. – Requires a small amount of PHP. (tags: php iphone_development) The World is Moving to HTML5 Do we live in a post Flash world? Tough to say as of right now. (tags: flash html5) iPhone Source Code Library Somewhat ironic it's written in ASPX, but oh… -
Flash and the City… Come See Me Hack Robots!
29 Jan 2010 | 8:01 am
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Digital Backcountry - Ryan Stewart's Flash Platform Blog
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AIR 2 Beta 2 Available – Much Improved Printing Support
3 Feb 2010 | 3:41 pmIf you missed it yesterday, AIR 2 beta 2 is now available on Adobe labs. This release includes some bug fixes, some optimizations, and a few new features including support for TLS/SSL socket communication and much improved support for interacting with printers. I sat down with the engineer who did a lot of the work on the new printing API and interviewed him about it. He also walked me through a demo of the new features. The APIs let you have complete control over printing and customize the experience. It’s worth checking out. Discussing New Printing Features in the AIR 2 Beta 2 from… -
Important Flex 3.5 Update
2 Feb 2010 | 10:53 pmIf you have updated to Flex 3.5 you want to be sure to grab the new version of the SDK. There is a bug that has been fixed which caused issues with the auto-update UI. Here’s the scoop. The Flex team has released an update to the 3.5 SDK that addresses an issue with the Flex-based AIR auto-update UI packaged within the SDK (SDK-24766). The refreshed build, SDK 3.5a, has only a few files modified in order to fix this issue and this change does not affect the signing and caching of the SDK 3.5 RSLs originally released in December. We encourage all developers using SDK 3.5 to upgrade their… -
HTML and Flash Thoughts
2 Feb 2010 | 5:12 pmKevin Lynch blogged today in response to a number of issues that have cropped up recently and does a great job of laying out both Adobe’s vision for Flash and for web tools. That and a couple of other posts got me thinking a bit. The first is Jeffrey Zeldman’s post. He contrasts Flash with some of the benefits of standards. Most of the time I see “HTML5 is going to kill Flash!!” without any kind of rational conversation on why. Jeffrey does a better job than most. His intro paragraph is a perfect example: Lack of Flash in the iPad (and before that, in the iPhone) is a… -
The Locked iPuzzle
29 Jan 2010 | 1:04 pmSo the iPad came and as expected, everyone can’t stop talking about it. I was cautiously optimistic about Apple’s tablet. I’m a sci-fi fan with a gadget fetish and I was loving the idea of carrying around a computer tablet just like they do in all of the latest science fiction movies. And Apple has a way of completely turning the computing world upside down. They have an elegance and polish that makes the intersection of software and hardware a nirvana. Part of that is because they rule their platforms with an iron fist. The iPhone is obvious. It’s arguably the most… -
On Google, YouTube, HTML5, Adobe, and Flash
21 Jan 2010 | 5:48 pmLast night Google blogged about how they were experimenting with offering some videos on YouTube that support the HTML5 video tag and the H.264 codec, and that work in Chrome and Safari. This is part of TestTube, where YouTube’s engineers test out different products without rolling them into the main YouTube experience. YouTube and Flash obviously have a deep relationship. It was Flash that helped YouTube become one of the most visited sites on the Internet, and YouTube has helped increase penetration of newer versions of Flash Player by rolling out features, like H.264 support, that…
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Mike Chambers
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Some personal thoughts on Apple and the trend towards closed platforms
28 Jan 2010 | 12:11 pmYesterday, Apple announced their new tablet device, the iPad. Even if you are able to step back from all of the hype and reality distortion field surrounding the announcement, it is still an impressive device, once which I would love to get my hands on. However, as a developer and Mac user, I am increasingly concerned with Apple’s movement toward creating a locked down, and closed ecosystem and platform. A platform where Apple controls which applications developers can deploy, and which applications and content users can consume. And yes, Flash is currently one of the casualties of… -
FITC Amsterdam : Building High Performance iPhone Applications with ActionScript 3
25 Jan 2010 | 9:13 amSorry for the two month hiatus on posting. I was on a sabbatical and vacation from work for the last 6 weeks of 2009, and have spent the first couple of weeks of 2010 busy working on code, and preparing some events for the spring (more on that in another post). Some of the stuff I have continued to spend a lot of time working on, has been building iPhone content using the Flash CS5 private beta. I have been doing a lot of work on trying to figure out how to get the best performance, and understand the limits of Flash content on the device. I plan to make a separate post on that in the next… -
Results from AS3 Development Task Contest #1
16 Nov 2009 | 12:15 pmI have just completed running all of the performance tests for the ActionScript 3 Development Task Contest #1. The result below are tentative until I have confirmed that the code follows the rules (and spirit) of the contest. If you see any issues with any of the top 5 submissions, please post them in the comments. You can view all of the entries in the contest’s GitHub repository. Here are the results: You can download the raw results in CSV format from here, or view them on google docs here. All examples were compiled with MXMLC from the Flex SDK 3.4 (Version 3.4.0 build 9271), with… -
ActionScript 3 Development Task Contest #1 Entries
13 Nov 2009 | 2:20 pmI have uploaded all of the entries for the ActionScript 3 Development Task Contest #1 to the contest’s GitHub repository. If you sent me an entry and do not see it in the repository, email me ASAP (without the file). Adobe’s spam system can be a bit overzealous at times, but if I know you sent me something, I can find it. Also, I have not validated all of the entries yet. I will do that later today or over the weekend. If you see any major issues in a submission, then post them in the comments (do not email me directly about it). My plan is to post the initial test results on… -
Update on ActionScript 3 Development Task Contest #1
12 Nov 2009 | 10:30 amWell, there is just a little over a day before the deadline for entries to the ActionScript Development Task Contest (AS3DTC) are due. I wanted to make a quick post with a couple of reminders to ensure everyone has their correctly working submissions in on time. First, a couple items: Make sure to include your name for the copyright in the ProximityManager.as file (replace my name at the top). This is really important, as you have the copyright, and it makez it easier for me to know who the submission is from. Run your submissions again against the latest test files. There have been some…
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Christophe Coenraets
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FlexStore Revisited: Building an Animated Spark Layout
2 Feb 2010 | 7:29 amSix years ago, I wrote the FlexStore sample application for Flex 1.0 (code name Royale at the time). The original version is still running here and shows the progress we have made in six years! Two years later, I rewrote the application for Flex 2. One major difference in the Flex 2 version was that the product Tile List was animated to visually represent the items being filtered out or filtered back in. The animations were helpful, but I was never too happy with the code: the layout animation logic was tightly coupled to the container logic and therefore wasn’t very reusable. In Flex… -
More Flex 4 / Spark ItemRenderer Samples
1 Feb 2010 | 7:24 pmHere are a few additional examples of Flex 4 / Spark ItemRenderers. They are similar to the examples I provided in my previous post with a different set of items. Here is a first example using the new “depth” attribute, the new States syntax and a PostLayoutTransform: A second example showing a different approach to “zoom” the hovered ItemRenderer: A third showing a Rotate3D effect: You can view the complete source code for the application here. You can download the source code here. -
Cool ItemRenderers Made Easy in Flex 4
28 Jan 2010 | 7:37 amFlex 4 makes a lot of things a lot easier to build. After looking at custom components and skins in my previous post, here are a couple of samples focusing on ItemRenderers, States, and Animations. In this first example, I use the new “depth” attribute together with the new States syntax to make sure that the hovered ItemRenderer is always on top of the other ones. I also use a PostLayoutTransform to “zoom” the hovered ItemRenderer without any impact on the position of the other ItemRenderers in this TileLayout. Here is the source code for the ItemRenderer. <?xml… -
Creating a Custom Component and Skins in Flex 4
22 Jan 2010 | 10:46 amThe basic idea behind the Spark component model in Flex 4 is to entirely decouple the behavior of a component from its visual representation. You code the behavior of a component in one class and its visual representation in interchangeable MXML skin classes. This new architecture leads to lighter weight and easier to customize components. As a simple example, I created a Spark version of the PhotoInput component I built for some of my Flex 3 samples (Salesbuilder and inSync). The PhotoInput component allows the user to take pictures using the webcam. Here is the PhotoInput component with a… -
Tampa Bay Adobe Developer Event this Thursday
18 Jan 2010 | 2:50 pmI’ll be in Tampa with James Ward and Greg Wilson this week, and we thought it would be great to put together an informal event for the local Tampa bay developer community. The details below are from Greg’s original post. When: Thursday, Jan 21 6:30pm-8:30pm Location: Taverna Opa Tampa – Channelside – next to Splitsville – http://tavernaopatampa.com/info.html Map: http://bit.ly/5kF4aR (Google Maps) No slides and no presentations – just informal chat/Q&A IMPORTANT PART –> Beer is on James, Christophe and me for the first hour! How can you resist now?! Between the 3 of…
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blog.FlexExamples.com
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Setting the corner radius on a Spark BitmapImage control in Flex 4
7 Feb 2010 | 11:46 pmThe following example shows how you can set the corner radius on a Spark BitmapImage control in Flex 4 by creating a mask with a corner radius (in this case a Spark BorderContainer container with the cornerRadius style set). <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2010/02/07/setting-the-corner-radius-on-a-spark-bitmapimage-control-in-flex-4/ --> <s:Application name="Spark_BitmapImage_cornerRadius_test" xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" [...] -
Creating a simple image gallery using the Spark PopUpAnchor control in Flex 4
7 Feb 2010 | 8:05 amThe following example shows how you can create a simple image gallery using the Spark PopUpAnchor control in Flex 4 using the PopUpAnchor, BitmapImage, and MX Image controls. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2010/02/07/creating-a-simple-image-gallery-using-the-spark-popupanchor-control-in-flex-4/ --> <s:Application name="Spark_PopUpAnchor_gallery_test" xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" [...] -
Setting the horizontal scroll policy on a Spark DropDownList control in Flex 4
6 Feb 2010 | 8:39 amThe following example shows how you can set the horizontal scroll policy on a Spark DropDownList control in Flex 4 by setting the horizontalScrollPolicy style on the drop down menu’s Scroller skin part. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2010/02/06/setting-the-horizontal-scroll-policy-on-a-spark-dropdownlist-control-in-flex-4/ --> <s:Application name="Spark_DropDownList_scroller_horizontalScrollPolicy_test" xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"… -
Setting the border alpha on a Spark TextInput control in Flex 4
5 Feb 2010 | 7:11 pmIn a previous example, “Hiding the border on a Spark TextInput control in Flex 4″, we saw how you could toggle the border visibility on a Spark TextInput control in Flex 4 by setting the Boolean borderVisible style. The following example shows how you can set the border alpha on a Spark TextInput control in Flex [...] -
Setting the content background alpha a Spark List control in Flex 4
5 Feb 2010 | 6:51 pmIn a previous example, “Hiding the border on a Spark List control in Flex 4″, we saw how you could toggle the border visibility on a Spark List control in Flex 4 by setting the Boolean borderVisible style. The following example shows how you can set the content background alpha on a Spark List control in [...]
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Flex and Flash Developer - Jesse Warden dot Kizz-ohm
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Flashbelt, Robotlegs – JXLTV Episode #4
9 Feb 2010 | 6:56 amRegistration for Flashbelt, a Flash conference for the midwest, is open! Also, a brief overview of Robotlegs, a new MVCS application framework. Mentioned links: Flashbelt Robotlegs SmartyPants IoC Guice Spring DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself Beers Hopslam Ale 1554 Black Ale -
Apple’s iPad, HTML5 Video, Gaia Flash Framework – JXLTV – Episode #3
31 Jan 2010 | 7:02 amI talk developing for Apple’s new iPad, how you can use your existing video to play on it. Also the Gaia Flash Framework’s history with a quick summary of what she does. Mentioned links: Apple iPad Alternative Videos for iPhone/iPad Building iPad apps with Flash CS5 Gaia Flash Framework Ruby on Rails Unload Flex Modules Beers Shiner Bock Lagunitas Brown Shugga Bridgeport Hop Czar New Belgium Fat Tire -
Conferences, Why Frameworks, Cairngorm 3 – JXLTV – Episode #2
26 Jan 2010 | 8:34 amJesse talks about upcoming conferences, why use a framework, clearing up whether or not he’d use Cairngorm 3 on a project, and MLK quotes of note. Mentioned links: 360Flex Flash and the City MIX Cairngorm 3 Swiz Parsley Mate SpringAS Robotlegs Martin Luther King, JR Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout -
Error 2112 in Flex Using EarthBrowser’s Mac Middle Mouse Fix
25 Jan 2010 | 9:30 amWe’re using the EarthBrowser Mac Mouse Wheel fix in our current Flex project. I was noticing some sporadic “SecurityError: Error #2112: Provided parameter LoaderContext.ApplicationDomain is from a disallowed domain.” pop up, but only when scrolling our TileList via the middle mouse. If you used the mouse on the scrollbar, it worked fine. I found the cause of the problem was when the JavaScript called Flash Player via ExternalInterface, eventually the loader.load call in the Flex Image control would throw an exception. Since the Flex 3.3 SDK< doesn’t wrap the load… -
1 vs Many, Mediator vs Presenter, 30 mins – JXLTV – Episode #1
15 Jan 2010 | 8:57 amJesse talks about 1 class vs. many classes, the Mediator vs. Presenter pattern contest on Twitter, & the 30 minutes a day tactic. Mentioned links: Atlanta Flex User Group Follow Sean Moore on Twitter Gaia Flash Framework Robotlegs Mediator Design Pattern Presenter Pattern 2° Below Ale by New Belgium
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The Flash Blog
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Web development will become much more complicated
4 Feb 2010 | 6:05 pmNow many of you are expecting this post to be about the lack of Flash on the iPad or about the future of HTML 5. While those issues are important, there are actually much larger issues facing the web development community. These issues are not necessarily negative, but they will change the way we all work. My first real job in this industry was doing DHTML at AOL/Netscape. Now this was during the peak of browser-compatibility headaches. There was IE 5, Netscape 4.7 along with the new Netscape 6 (yes they skipped version 5 to catch up with IE) and Mozilla browsers. Adding to the madness was… -
New video of iPhone apps built with Flash CS5
1 Feb 2010 | 7:58 pmNow that the Flash/iPad issue has been done to death on this blog, I can now get back to simply talking about Flash. Adrian Ludwig recently released a video showing some of the newer applications that have been created for the iPhone using Flash CS5. The performance is getting better and better. On this one, Adobe, Apple, and developers all benefit. Lee -
Buy some cool Flash stuff and help out Haiti
31 Jan 2010 | 5:30 pmChuck Freedman has created a great auction on eBay where all of the proceeds go to charities that are helping people in Haiti. There are many cool Flash collectibles up there for you to grab and I have also donated a bunch of items for the cause. The items below won’t show up until Chuck updates the auction page but you can at least see what I donated. Official Flash on the Beach Speaker Bag This is an unused Timbuk2 messenger bag (sorry John). It even still has the tag on it. Big Pile of Foreign Money Collected over the last two years of evangelism travel. Includes money from… -
We have our answer about the iPad
31 Jan 2010 | 1:58 amAs I’m sure you have already heard, Steve Jobs confirmed that Flash will not be coming to the iPad. He called out both Google and Adobe. He said that we are lazy and basically said that Flash will never come to Apple devices. Personally I find this really sad, as I really enjoy using Apple products and I think Flash Player 10.1 would have been awesome on the iPad. Why not give people the option to have it is the question that I keep asking. Even though I obviously disagree about Flash, I have to say that I actually admire Steve Jobs. He sticks to his guns and doesn’t waver. I… -
Some questions about HTML 5 video
30 Jan 2010 | 9:34 amNow before I even start this post let me make something clear. I am trying to do some research on HTML 5 video and have some questions that I’m hoping someone can help me with. I’m planning on doing some demos as I am genuinely interested in trying to build some players. Any comments that try to rekindle the flame war from the last post will be deleted. Let’s keep this one about the technology, not whether HTML 5 video is better than Flash, etc. OK so here are my questions. Any help would be much appreciated. Is there a definitive reference for both the video tag and the JS…
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Alex’s Flex Closet
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Spark Charts
5 Feb 2010 | 10:43 pmMX Charts are very flexible and use composition much like the Spark architecture. I don't know if/when we'll create Charts on the Spark base classes. I decided to see how far I could get by putting a bunch of DataGroups and a custom collection and layout into play. Usual caveats apply. There are bugs, missing features, etc. But it might be a starting point if you need to throw some charts on the screen on top of the Spark. Run Demo Download Source -
Spark Menu and MenuBar
3 Feb 2010 | 11:28 pmSo far I've repurposed List into a DataGrid, Tree, DateField and ColorPicker. Here is my attempt to convert List into Menu and MenuBar. Usual caveats apply. There are probably bugs, the visuals need tuning, and there is no guarantee that the one we finally ship someday will look anything like it. Run Demo Download Source -
Custom Preloader DownloadProgressBar
29 Jan 2010 | 3:21 pmThe DownloadProgressBar is the thing you see while the SWF is being downloaded. It also shows a progress bar while the application is being initialized. The one we ship is pretty vanilla and boring to watch if you have a large SWF that takes a long time to download or initialize. You can create custom ProgressBars by implements IPreloaderDisplay on a Sprite and doing whatever you want in it. The trick is that you can't use Flex classes since they haven't been downloaded or initialized yet, and you can't probably don't want to do asynchronous things like load images since you're already in the… -
Coloring Text in MenuBar
28 Jan 2010 | 12:20 pmApparently, some folks want the text in a menu bar to change when you rollover or select it to show a menu. I'm not sure why the default menuBarItemRenderer doesn't respond to textRollOverColor and textSelectionColor, but here are the modifications I made to get it to work. Usual caveats apply. Download Source Run Demo -
Spark DateField and ColorPicker
26 Jan 2010 | 3:52 pmWe also ran out of time to do a Spark-based DateField/DateChooser and ColorPicker. It is on the list for future releases. I was able to hack a DateField and ColorPicker using all Spark components. I have no idea if the version we ship in the future will look anything like this at all and I'm sure there are bugs, but it will give you an idea of the flexibility and consistency in the Spark architecture. The components on the left are the ones I created, the ones on the right are the old mx versions. Usual caveats apply. Run Demo Download Source
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Adobe Flex Developer Center: Recent tutorials
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Creating engaging online rich media ads using Flash and Flex
1 Feb 2010 | 12:02 amDiscover the power of rich media advertising, learn how they work, and examine a sample ad that carries over user selections to a landing page. -
Hello! Flex 4 book excerpt: FXG and MXML graphics—building a game
25 Jan 2010 | 12:01 amLearn about the full designer-developer workflow from design tools such as Illustrator to developer tools such as Flash Builder 4. -
The flash.globalization package in Flash Player
25 Jan 2010 | 12:01 amLearn about how the flash.globalization package enables you to seamlessly enable your SWF applications to accommodate users around the world. -
Building a game with Flash Builder using the Cairngorm framework-Part 1: Displaying the board and processing player moves
21 Dec 2009 | 12:12 amLearn how to develop a four in a row game and leverage the power of Flash Builder 4. -
Developer spotlight: Kevin Schmidt
7 Dec 2009 | 12:12 amMeet Kevin Schmidt, picked for his use of Adobe technologies such as ColdFusion and Flex to create compelling business applications.
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ScottGu's Blog
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VS 2010 / .NET 4 Release Candidate
8 Feb 2010 | 11:39 pm[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu This afternoon we made available the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release candidates. You can find download links here. Right now the downloads are available only to MSDN subscribers. Starting Wednesday (Feb 10th) everyone will be able to download them (regardless of whether you are a MSDN subscriber or not). Background on the Release Candidate I blogged about us deciding to ship a public VS 2010 release candidate last December. The primary motivation behind… -
jQuery 1.4.1 Intellisense with Visual Studio
8 Feb 2010 | 10:30 pm[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu A few people have emailed me recently asking about the availability of a Visual Studio –vsdoc intellisense hint file for jQuery 1.4.1. I blogged about –vsdoc files in the past – they provide additional intellisense help information for Visual Studio, and enable you to get a richer intellisense experience with dynamic Javascript libraries. If you are using VS 2008 SP1 you’ll want to download and install this patch in order to have VS 2008… -
Built-in Charting Controls (VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series)
7 Feb 2010 | 9:54 pm[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] This is the fifteenth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post covers a nice addition to ASP.NET and Windows Forms with .NET 4 - built-in charting control support. ASP.NET and Windows Forms Charting Controls A little over 14 months ago I blogged about how Microsoft was making available a free download of charting controls for both ASP.NET 3.5 and Windows Forms 3.5. You can download and use these… -
ASP.NET MVC 2 (Release Candidate 2) Now Available
5 Feb 2010 | 12:44 am[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu Earlier this evening the ASP.NET team shipped ASP.NET MVC (Release Candidate 2) for VS 2008/.NET 3.5. You can download it here. The RC2 release of ASP.NET MVC 2 is a follow-up to the first ASP.NET MVC 2 RC build that we shipped in December. It includes a bunch of bug fixes, performance work, and some final API and behavior additions/changes. Below are a few of the changes between the RC1 and RC2 release (read the release notes for even more details):… -
Nice “Quick Hit” Videos about ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010
28 Jan 2010 | 9:12 pm[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] I’ve been working on a series of blog posts the last few months that cover some of the new features coming with .NET 4 and VS 2010. Earlier today someone pointed me at some nice “quick hit” videos that have been published that also provide quick first looks at some of the new features coming with ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010. These videos aren’t an exhaustive list of everything new – but do provide a great way to quickly learn about many of the cool new…
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Method ~ of ~ failed by Tim Heuer
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Quick FAQ on Visual Studio 2010 RC release (February 2010) and Silverlight development
9 Feb 2010 | 7:37 amYesterday Microsoft announced that Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate was available for MSDN subscribers and would be generally available on 10 February 2010 for the public. This release represents a significant improvement in the overall Visual Studio product and a lot was based on beta tester feedback. Of course, as a Silverlight developer you will be wondering: Can I still develop Silverlight 4 applications with the VS2010 RC? Here’s the simplest form of a FAQ I could provide for you: Q: What was released this week for Visual Studio 2010? A: The Visual Studio team released Visual… -
When Blobs attack – understanding cloud storage bursts and viewing logs
8 Feb 2010 | 10:42 amHere’s how it started… Lisa (my wife) [shouting from office into the kitchen]: Tim, what’s this Amazon charge for $193? Me [thinking what I may have purchased and not remembered]: Um, don’t know…let me look. I then logged into my Amazon account to see what order I may have forgotten. Surely I didn’t order $200 worth of MP3…that’s ridiculous. Sure enough nothing was there. Immediately I’m thinking fraud. I start freaking out, getting mad, figuring out my revenge scheme on the scammer, etc. Then it hit me: Amazon Web Services account. The Culprit Sure enough I logged… -
Silverlight DataGrid quick styling tip: keep selected row focus state
4 Feb 2010 | 9:27 amA developer asked me this question and while a simple answer, I thought it would be a good quick tip to share for those who may be in similar situations. The scenario is the classic master-details scenario where perhaps you have a grid of data and when a user selects the row, the details are enabled in a form (or perhaps the child of the element) for editing. Maybe something like this: See you can see the row clearly selected (note: this is using the default DataGrid styling). But watch what happens when you go to the form to edit: Notice the focus now on the TextBox in the form, and the… -
Smashing Magazine February 2010 Windows 7 Theme
31 Jan 2010 | 4:23 pmit’s that time again…beginning of a new month! That means that Smashing Magazine has released their monthly wallpaper pictures again. As you could expect, February entries are full of a lot of Valentine type stuff. Here are your February Windows 7 Theme Packs for the wallpapers though…including all images (note: some ‘without calendar’ images are not provided by the authors) unfiltered. Smashing Magazine February 2010 Windows 7 Theme (calendar) [58.2 MB] Smashing Magazine February 2010 Windows 7 Theme (without calendar) [51.8 MB] Smashing Magazine Desktop Wallpaper: February… -
Reading MP3 metadata with Silverlight and drag-drop
30 Jan 2010 | 2:38 pmI’m working on a little sample application for music management in Silverlight using WCF RIA Services and some other new Silverlight 4 features. One thing that I wanted to add to the application was the ability to drag an audio file and either lookup the data and/or add a new album/artist/song to the library automatically. Audio formats have a ‘tag’ format known as ID3. It’s a format used for audio file metadata that is used in Windows Media Player, iTunes, and various hardware devices as well. Over the years there has been an evolution of this format, with the older ID3v1…
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Google Web Toolkit Blog
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GWT Developers: Hope to see you at Google I/O
13 Jan 2010 | 6:23 amAs you may have heard from our announcement this morning, registration for Google I/O is now open. In addition to publishing access to registration, we've also included event details on the I/O website. We already have quite a few Google Web Toolkit I/O sessions and Developer Sandbox demos lined up, and we expect this number to grow over the coming months. Here's a partial list of the GWT sessions that are already listed on the I/O website: GWT + HTML5 can do what?! Architecting GWT applications for production at Google Measure in milliseconds redux: Meet Speed Tracer Faster apps faster:… -
Introducing Google Web Toolkit 2.0, now with Speed Tracer
8 Dec 2009 | 5:07 pmEarlier tonight, we wrapped up a very exciting Campfire One at which we announced that GWT 2.0 is now officially available. In addition to major improvements in the GWT SDK and the Google Plugin for Eclipse, GWT 2.0 includes a brand new performance analysis tool for Chrome called Speed Tracer. Introducing Speed Tracer We hinted at it a few weeks ago, and now it's available: Speed Tracer is a powerful new performance analysis tool for Chrome that gives you unprecedented insight into the inner workings of any web application — not just those created with GWT. Want to know why your web app… -
New insights into web application performance
4 Nov 2009 | 10:23 amI've sometimes thought that optimizing web applications is as much a science as dowsing. (No offense intended, dowsers of the world — but you have to admit it's a hard thing to explain even when it does work out.) Even when you are completely willing to invest time and energy into optimizing an application, how do you actually go about it? Our team, along with everyone else in the world who cares about web application performance, has had to essentially guess at where time goes inside the browser. We've spent countless hours debating each others' wild-eyed speculations as to the true… -
The enterprise (apps) in your pocket
19 Oct 2009 | 3:08 pmWhen building great enterprise apps for our users many of us often first target the desktop user. Did you know that GWT lets you just as easily build great user interfaces for your mobile users? Modern mobile phones such Android based devices and the iPhone ship will powerful web browsers which use the same Webkit rendering engine which GWT already supports and increasingly includes great capabilities like geo-location and offline storage. Today's guest blog post is from Navin Kumar, CTO of Socialwok who has offered to share some of their experiences around building mobile apps for the… -
Building Enterprise web apps in the cloud
8 Oct 2009 | 10:04 pmAn important decision to make when building a web application is how to coordinate state between client and server. This includes how to create appropriate representations of your data to send over the wire There are many possible approaches. I'd like to present a straightforward one from Jerome Breche, CEO of TimZon, who was kind enough to share it with us today. When we started our first GWT project (TimZon.com), we found out that one of the major benefits of using GWT is its ability to transfer complex object data structure between client and server through the RPC mechanism. So when…
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Appcelerant
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Titanium Desktop 0.8 Webcast
28 Jan 2010 | 1:56 pmIf you missed yesterday’s webcast, here’s your chance to pick it up via recording on Vimeo. In this webcast, Marshall covers everything that’s new in 0.8: http://bit.ly/d6AMID New Windows Installer: MSI packaging provides a more stable and more robust installation experience. Transparent windows: Microsoft Windows apps look fantastic with customizable opacity. Improved font rendering: cleaner, crisper native fonts for Windows New support for 64-bit Linux: run Titanium apps without 32-bit emulation MySQL support for PHP: embed this popular database in your app. Improved proxy… -
A Great Day To Be an Appcelerator Developer
26 Jan 2010 | 4:31 pmIf you’ve been following the twitter or press coverage of the Apple Tablet, you’ve probably noticed Appcelerator mentioned once, twice… ok we’re counting about 18 times. Before we get to the obligatory press run-down, we did want to confirm with everyone that we WILL be supporting the Apple Tablet/iPad/StevejobsbrainchildPod/iSlate in short order. When? How? We’ll let you know more on Thursday after the Apple announcement. But we are very pleased to say that we will be the first cross-platform company to support all three of Apple’s platforms… -
Tradui Translator App for Haiti Relief
21 Jan 2010 | 3:15 pmAppcelerator partner Intridea developed Tradui, a Creole/English translation app, last weekend to help aid workers on the ground in Haiti.”We started developing it at CrisisCamp DC last Saturday and finished it on Monday and it is now available for both iPhone and Android. Most of our time was spent trying to get a good dictionary to parse. Without Titanium, we would not have been able to get it done this quick.” The app has been featured in CNN, NPR, and O’Reilly. Download Tradui – iPhone Download Tradui – Android ShareThis -
Titanium Apps to Check Out: Razorfish, StumbleUpon, StatShaker
12 Jan 2010 | 9:59 amHoliday Dare2Share Razorfish recently launched its Holiday Dare2Share app on the App Store today. The application has a random New Year’s resolution generator that creates a fun New Years greeting for you to share via Twitter, Facebook, or via email. Razorfish created the application in Titanium to take advantage of the native UI and social sharing functionality included in the platform. The application is being distributed to all of Razorfish’s clients. Best of all, the app tallies the number of shares made and donates $1 for each to the Partnership for a Drug Free… -
Titanium 0.8 Launch Contest Winners
3 Dec 2009 | 5:59 pmGreat turnout for our innaugural Tweet 4 Swag contest. We had 115 retweeters participate, 41 of whom tweeted both lines. And 9 Tweeters retweeted both lines AND referred a friend to one of our webcasts: Titans (2 tweets & referral) @cb1kenobi @chehodgins @comspy @endpoint101 @erepublikws @hbstone @rdclark @tomayac @xNephilimx @yeco 2 tweets: @andrewjb44 @bmsterling @brianteeman @Chalkers @cheeaun @chelsea_robb @d13design @databyte @dgiul @erikwillemse @frankieshakes @halans @heyden @jaehess @jeedee @joemccann @jppommet @jwd2a @leomelzer @makenosound @martinbowling @mohammed_khan…
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joshy's blog
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The iPhone, Open Systems, and Leaving Sun
4 Feb 2010 | 2:27 pmLots of people have opined on Apple's iPad, many deriding it's closed nature and lack of features. The thing is, those problems don't matter to most people. The iPad isn't for you or me. It's for everyone else. I've spent the last 20 years hoping we would have the technology to build such a device, even though I knew it was a device I would not personally use. But that doesn't matter.. Make no mistake, the simplified and locked down iPhone OS (running on both the iPhone and the iPad) is the future. Eventually at least 90% of people will use an iPhone, Chrome Pad, netbook, or similar… -
2009: a year closes
4 Jan 2010 | 9:17 amYou might be wondering where I've been the past few months. JavaFX and Java Store work has definitely heated up, which has taken up the bulk of my time. I've also been working on Project Maitai, a tool for reactive visual artwork, as well as traveling to Sweden to speak at OreDev. Now that the Oracle acquisition has received approval (or at least been approved to receive approval), I'm hoping that things will move ahead quickly and we can all get back to writing great software. JavaFX I've been playing with JavaFX 1.3 and I have to say it's great. Even with the new graphics stack and compiler… -
My new blog
20 Oct 2009 | 1:58 pmAs many of you may know, user interface design is a passion of mine. I want software that both looks pretty and acts well. I've had lots of ideas on the topic, often bleeding over into art and traditional design, in addition to usability. After thinking about it for a couple of years I've finally decided to create a blog dedicated to the topic: www.joshondesign.com At Josh On Design I'll be writing on art, design, and usability, but with a twist. There are plenty of design sites that focus on professional designers. My site will focus specifically on design for software engineers. It's an… -
The Java Store, a Q&A
17 Jun 2009 | 10:53 amOne of the big announcements at JavaOne was the Java Store. I'm especially proud of it because I've been secretly working on the project for the past few months. Since the announcement I've gotten a lot of questions on the store and how it relates to the rest of the Java ecosystem. To supplement the excellent FAQ I thought I'd answer a few questions. What's the one paragraph summary of what you've announced? We have announced the private beta of the Java Store, a desktop client to let people browse and purchase desktop Java applications, and the open beta of the Java warehouse where… -
Top 5 Most Important Features in JavaFX 1.2
9 Jun 2009 | 10:12 amTechnically I'm on vacation this week so don't mention this post to my boss. I simply couldn't wait to blog about cool stuff we put into JavaFX 1.2. Shhhhh! Lots of JavaFX related things were announced at JavaOne, many of them concerning future products and other bits that aren't released yet. This post won't cover any of those. There were so many things discussed at JavaOne that I'm afraid some of the key points of the new JavaFX might have been missed. In this post I'm only going to cover the things that you can actually download and work with today. I'm talking only about the new version…
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James Weaver’s JavaFX Blog
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off topic but fun: Five-minute augmented-reality scavenger hunt
2 Feb 2010 | 7:59 amJust a quick heads-up: If you have an android mobile device and want to have some fun with augmented reality, go on the five-minute augmented-reality scavenger hunt. See my aug.mx blog post for details. Update 10-Feb-2010: Congratulations to Dave Pease of Liverpool, UK, who was the first one to successfully complete the five-minute augmented reality scavenger hunt! Dave walked to the other side of the augmented reality 3D snowman, and identified that the symbol on his back is a Christmas tree! Dave sent a screen shot from the Layar Mobile Browser running on his Android as proof:… -
A JavaFX app for your vagus nerve from Krishna Kishore
31 Jan 2010 | 8:55 pmThe physiology of stress is an interesting topic, even to a layman like me. Relaxing, taking time to enjoy beauty, and exhaling slowly, are important lessons for all of us that are often learned the hard way. While learning such a lesson, I became acquainted with the vagus nerve, which plays a key role in the physiology of stress such as regulating heart-rate. From what I read, exhaling slowly causes something called a parasympathetic stimulation that calms certain internal organs, which helps reduces stress.The screen shot above is of a JavaFX app named Blue Sea developed by Krishna… -
Oracle/Sun Strategy: We will invest heavily in JavaFX
27 Jan 2010 | 4:45 pmToday was a busy interesting day for lots of my fellow geeks (like you, perhaps) in that I found myself listening to two webcasts at the same time: The Apple iPad announcement, and the Oracle/Sun Strategy announcements. Being a JavaFX developer, I was particularly interested in the extent to which Oracle is going to embrace JavaFX (and how much crow I would have to eat from my April 21, 2009 What, Me Worry post). In the live Oracle/Sun Strategy webcast, I heard encouraging statements like: We will invest heavily in JavaFX Significant investment will be made in JavaFX; focus on designers;… -
JavaFX data visualisation app by Nik Silver
26 Jan 2010 | 12:52 pmBecause of its rich UI capabilities, one very natural and powerful use of JavaFX technology is data visualization. In today's post I'd like to highlight the JavaFX applet that Nik Silver created to visualize and navigate news. Nik's app accesses the Guardian Open Platform API from Guardian News and Media Limited, and presents it in the bubbles-style interface shown below: The purple border in the screen shot is my desktop, where this applet is located after having been dragged from the browser. The bubbles shown above represent tags with which articles are categorized. You can drag… -
Spotting JavaFX apps in the wild: iParticipate by lodgON
22 Jan 2010 | 7:49 amThe folks at lodgON in Belgium have created a JavaFX application named iParticipate that enables companies and organizations to interact with dedicated focus groups in a controlled environment. The screen shot above shows a portion of the application, which leverages JavaFX in its user interface and J2EE 6 technologies running in a Glassfish server. For more info on this application, see the related blog post by JavaFX developer Johan Vos. Regards,Jim Weaver
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Confessions of an Flash Addict
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Stress-Testing your server
4 Feb 2010 | 5:31 amAt the project i’m currently working on we do a lot of testing. Turns out we didn’t know if one of our servers was able to perform under high circumstances and we wanted to perform a stress test. One of our testers introduced me to Apaches JMeter. What i like a lot is the ability to record a test. It also allows you to test a lot of different protocols, HTTP, HTTPS, SOAP, Database via JDBC, LDAP, JMS, POP3(S) and IMAP(S) to name just a few. Make sure you check it out if you want to know how your application will perform with more than 10000 users at the same time! Please consider… -
Handy little snippet: System.setClipboard()
16 Nov 2009 | 3:35 pmJust so I don’t forget this: A little snippet to copy text from a textField to the clipboard. System.setClipboard(myTextFieldInstance.text); Please consider to buying me a coffee. HexoSearch -
Funky TAX Calculator
16 Nov 2009 | 3:29 pmA really long time ago, i created my ‘Funky TAX Calc’ and later on updated it. Now its better than ever What is it? Its a calculator that calculates the amount of tax for you. I was tired of doing all my invoices by hand so I created this. Whats new? Revamped U.I. You can adjust the percentage of TAX (or VAT or BTW) through an XML file in the installer directory. Copy every output value seperately to the clipboard with one click! You can download here or from Adobe’s AIR Marketplace. And ofcourse is this version also secured In this version you can also adjust the TAX value. -
Branding 101 for Developers part 3 of 4 and 4 of 4
15 Nov 2009 | 1:32 pmHad this post in my draft for a while now but its here to tell you my last installments on branding are published. Check out part three and four. Tell me what you think in the comments. Please consider to buying me a coffee. HexoSearch -
Changing the native cursor in FP10
15 Nov 2009 | 1:25 pmI just found out you can natively change the mouse cursor in Flash. This is handy if you want to have a different cursor when going over specific buttons or other DisplayObjects and don’t want to mess about with attaching clips to your mouse position. For documentation please go here Below is some quick code and an example: _arrow.addEventListener( MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, arrowOver ); _button.addEventListener( MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, buttonOver ); _hand.addEventListener( MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, handOver ); _iBeam.addEventListener( MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, beamOver ); _arrow.addEventListener(…
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James Ward - RIA Cowboy
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London Event Tomorrow: RIAs with Java, Spring, Hibernate, BlazeDS, and Flex
9 Feb 2010 | 5:33 amTomorrow night, Wednesday Feburary 10 2010, I’ll be speaking to the London Java Community about RIAs with Java, Spring, Hibernate, BlazeDS, and Flex. I hope to see you there! -
First Steps in Flex Screencasts
24 Jan 2010 | 1:33 pmA little over a year ago Bruce Eckel and I published First Steps in Flex. So far we’ve had great feedback on the book. The concise examples seem to resonate with how developers learn new technologies. Another way that developers learn is through seeing technologies firsthand. To better support that model of learning Bruce and I decided to create screencasts for each chapter of the book. We took a very casual approach to the screencasts. They were not scripted. We wanted them to feel as though you are sitting in the room with us as we discuss the code. Check them out and let us know what… -
Tampa Bay Adobe Developer Event this Thursday
20 Jan 2010 | 8:37 amAdobe’s Enterprise Evangelism team including Greg Wilson, Christophe Coenraets, and myself are in Tampa, FL this week. On Thursday night we are rounding up the local geeks at Taverna Opa for free beers and drunken confabulation about Flex, The Flash Platform, and other topics that bore most normal people. Hope to see you there! -
Flex and The Cloud
19 Jan 2010 | 2:49 pmThe combination of Flex and The Cloud is quickly becoming an IT and paradigm changing combination. Here are a number of recently published resources for learning more about this : An article I wrote has been published on the online Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine: Flex and The Cloud: Is this really just Client/Server 2.0? I’ll be speaking on Thursday, February 18 2010 at the Denver Flex User Group about Flex and The Cloud The recording of a webinar I co-hosted on the new Salesforce.com Cloud platform for developers has been posted Jeff Douglas has posted a video walk through… -
Flex 4, Java, Spring, and Hibernate in Flash Builder 4
17 Jan 2010 | 3:30 pmLast week I posted a screencast that walks through the basics of connecting a Flex 4 application to a Java / Spring back-end with the new Data Wizards in Flash Builder 4. Here is a new video that extends beyond just simple RPC method calls and adds Hibernate for persistence. Let me know what you think. (Open full-size video in a new window)
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The Dojo Toolkit blogs
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1.4.1 release candidate 1 is ready
21 Jan 2010 | 2:15 pmThe 1.4.1rc1 release is now available for testing at http://download.dojotoolkit.org/release-1.4.1rc1/ Given the timing of the Firefox 3.6 release, this is a great opportunity to test for regressions. Please try testing on the new Firefox release (or any other browser) and report your results by EOB Friday. Thanks! -
3-day Online Dojo Conference - dojo.connect
4 Jan 2010 | 11:15 amThis year we wanted to create an Dojo Conference / Event that is more inclusive for the Dojo Community than our traditional Dojo Developer Days. To that end, we have established a Dojo Conference, dojo.connect to provide an online virtual conference so that more people may attend and learn Dojo. The full conference is three days long, with the first two days consisting of practical sessions on how to use Dojo to build amazing web apps. The third day will consist of round tables and discussions centered around Dojo's future developmental goals. These days many conferences are simply big… -
Dijit 1.4
14 Dec 2009 | 4:50 pmThere are a lot of great new features in the 1.4 release, all of which are document in the release notes. I just wanted to document a few of the especially big changes in dijit: - Jared has done a lot of work on Editor, split between dijit.Editor and the dojox.editor plugins, including a full-screen mode plugin. - Shane implemented scrolling tab labels (you've seen these at the top of your browser window); they are quite useful when they are lots of tabs in a single TabContainer. - Multiple dialogs now can be opened too (one on top of the other). - Finally, there was a lot of refactoring work… -
New Dojo release ready for consumption: 1.4.0
10 Dec 2009 | 5:42 am... and without further ado, I proudly present to the community Dojo 1.4.0 final. This one has been a long time coming. Nine months of non-stop development, a few new committers and nearly 1000 closed issues cumulatively creates our fastest, most stable Dojo release to date. While this release is primarily a stability and performance release, we managed to sneak quite a bit of great new functionality into the various projects. All the significant changes have been outlined in the 1.4 release notes (including migration issues), and are far too numerous to list here: ranging from simple… -
Dojo 1.4 RC2
2 Dec 2009 | 3:42 pmHi all, A few days ago we put out the second (and hopefully last) 1.4 release candidate. Please give it a final check, reviewing the release notes and filing any bugs (don't forget to attach a test case after filing the ticket). If all looks good we'll make the release on Monday. Thanks! Bill
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Official jQuery Blog
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The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 9 – David Artz, Aol.
29 Jan 2010 | 6:34 pmIn this prerecorded episode from Washington DC, we sit down with David Artz, Director of Website Optimization at Aol. David talks to us about the conviences and challenges of using jQuery at the enterprise level. You can subscribe to the show in iTunes or via the raw RSS feed or you can download the MP3. Here are the show notes for this episode: Permanent Sponsors Interview Who is David Artz? Director of Website Optimization Manage front-end development best practices (speed, SEO). How Aol. currently uses jQuery Plugins that Aol uses Challenges Corporations like Aol face by using jQuery at… -
14 Days of jQuery Summary: Days 8-14, jQuery 1.4.1 Released
29 Jan 2010 | 10:13 amIn case you’re not following along with the 14 days of jQuery, here’s a summary of what has been released for days 8-14. Highlights On Day 12, the jQuery team released jQuery 1.4.1, the first bug release to jQuery 1.4. jQuery 1.4.1 is now the latest release of jQuery; take a moment to review the 1.4.1 release notes. On Day 13, the team announced the new jQuery Meetups site. We want to help foster local meetups and eventually try to provide more resources to your groups. On Day 14, the jQuery UI team released jQuery UI 1.8 Release Candidate 1. The team would love you to test and… -
The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 8 – api.jquery.com
22 Jan 2010 | 9:25 amIn this episode we are at the Aol. headquarters in Washington DC filming video and releasing jQuery 1.4 for the 14 Days of jQuery. In this episode we talk with Karl Swedberg and Paul Irish about the new api.jquery.com documentation site. You can subscribe to the show in iTunes via the raw RSS feed or you can download the MP3. Here are the show notes for this episode: Interview Api site overview Based on Packt Reference guide New features of the site Disqus XML Feed Mobile reference guide already using xml dump Fully working demos version change/addition log more relevant searches How can… -
14 Days of jQuery Summary: Days 1 – 7
20 Jan 2010 | 11:08 amIn case you’re not following along with the 14 days of jQuery, here’s a summary of what has been released thus far. Pre Release Day 1 New jQuery API Site Pre Release Day 2 jQuery 1.4rc1 Day 1 jQuery 1.4 Released jQuery 1.4 Live Q&A Day 2 HD version of jQuery 1.4 Q&A Media Temple Giveaway jQuery Podcast episode 7 with John Resig Day 3 Internal Changes in jQuery 1.4, with John Resig Day 4 Getting Involved in the jQuery Community, with Karl Swedberg Day 5 appendTo Training Drawing jQuery 1.4 Hawtness #1, with Paul Irish Day 6 jQuery In The Enterprise Day 7 New jQuery Forum… -
The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 7 – jQuery 1.4 Release (John Resig)
15 Jan 2010 | 11:38 amIn this episode we are at the Aol. headquarters in Washington DC filming video and releasing jQuery 1.4 for the 14 Days of jQuery. In this episode we talk with John Resig after the live uStream keynote to get more insight into the jQuery 1.4 release. You can subscribe to the show in iTunes via the raw RSS feed or you can download the MP3. Here are the show notes for this episode: Interview jQuery 1.4 overview Major Contributors A look behind the scenes to get the release complete what are the main reasons people should upgrade to 1.4? Performance gains overview New functionality overview New…
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aralbalkan.com
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Base64-encoded images as CSS backgrounds in UIWebViews
6 Feb 2010 | 1:24 pmI love that you can embed Base64-encoded images in CSS and that WebKit understands them. Here, for example, is a way to add my Open in External App icon to links that you capture from a UIWebView to display in Mobile Safari: a { color:rgb(50, 79, 133); text-decoration:none; padding-left:26px;… -
Links for 2010-02-05
5 Feb 2010 | 3:05 pmapporacle | iPhone & Mac OS Icon and UI Design - Nicolas Thomsen An iPad mock-up of OmniFocus by the very talented Nicolas Thomsen: "Since OmniGroup announced their plans to bring their products to the iPad (iPad or bust!) I have been wondering how my most used app, OmniFocus, would look and feel on the platform. I made a quick mockup of how I´d like it to work based on the iPhone app and the Mac OS app." (tags: nicolas thomsen, apporacle, ipad, mockup) PSD: Apple iPad fully editable template | Icon Design for iPhone and OS X Fully editable Apple iPad in PSD format. Every element you see… -
Twitter fixes oAuth for desktop and mobile with xAuth
4 Feb 2010 | 4:16 amThose of you following my tweets may have seen that I was rather frustrated this week at Twitter's oAuth policy with regard to desktop and mobile applications. In a nutshell, Twitter requires any new applications that use the Twitter API to use oAuth for authorization if they want to display the source parameter in tweets. The source parameter is the little bit of text and the link to your app that appears at the bottom of tweets (e.g., via Tweetie). It constitutes a very important bit of organic marketing for Twitter apps. My gripe – as a developer creating a new mobile Twitter app for the… -
BeBox (Thomson) router and Be broadband info
2 Feb 2010 | 2:45 pmIt might just be me but Be's router doesn't come with great instructions and the username and password info in the guide is just plain outdated and wrong as of September 2009. Here are some notes to help you if you're trying to sign in to your Thomson router (BeBox). Control panel You access the control panel from 192.168.1.254. This will prompt you for your sign-in (log-in) details: Username and password If you haven't changed it, the username is Administrator and the password is the serial number of your modem. O2 remotely changed the password of your router to your router's serial number… -
Don’t plug in at the Waterstone’s Costa Coffee in Brighton: the most geek-unfriendly cafe in Brighton?
21 Jan 2010 | 9:59 amFor the past six months or so, I've been mostly working out of the Costa in the Waterstone's in Brighton. It's usually quiet (was even more so before Borders UK shut down, taking the popular Starbucks in its Churchill Square branch with it) and the staff are lovely. Unfortunately, I can't say the same thing for the staff at the Waterstone's itself. This afternoon, I was sipping my cappuccino and working away on my latest iPhone app when one of the Waterstone's staff approached my table and proceeded to tell me off for having my notebook plugged in. Yes, you read that right: a Waterstone's…
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Pibeca - Pixel Bender for Canvas
14 Jan 2010 | 3:59 amLet me say this first - I am not a fan of Canvas and tinkering around with this project I realized why I prefer programming in AS3 so much more to Javascript: my goodness - this language is a dirty mess, how can anyone get anything done with it? But for fairness sake - I guess there must be some pro development tools out there which I don't know about and my using of notepad might not be the true JS developer experience. So even though I think that compared to the capabilities of the Flash Player Canvas still lacks a lot, it cannot be ignored since it is now available on most major browsers. -
Galactose - Emergent Behavior of Particles
10 Jan 2010 | 11:04 amI have added a new experiment called Galactose to my Incubator. The motion of a particle field is controlled by the shape of the random clusters they form among each other. The orientation of the clusters control each particle's further motion which leads to all kind of interesting feedback effects and emergent patterns. The core algorithm which calculates the overall alignment and orientation of the clusters is written in Pixel Bender. -
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Flash Median Filter
20 Oct 2009 | 5:05 amAs you might have read in Eugene's blog, he, Nicoptere and me were having a little competition who could come up with the fastest implementation of a median filter. Median filters have the unpleasant property that they can not be as easily optimized as for example blur filters. The median filter is also one of those types of filters that are not very well suited for an implementation in Pixel Bender due to the way Pixel Bender processes images (except maybe for a trivial 3x3 median). What a median filter does is to take all the pixels within a certain radius around a pixel, sort them… -
Flash Player Memory Management
4 Sep 2009 | 8:35 amWhilst working with some huge bitmaps for Aviary I had to face the undeniable fact that huge bitmaps are memory hogs and that the memory that is made available to the Flash Player by the browser is not unlimited. Actually it is quite limited - on my Vista machine that has 4GB of RAM I max out the memory at ca 1.5GB in FireFox 3.5.2. - that theoretically allows to keep 25 of the 64MB 4095*4095 bitmaps in memory which are the maximum sized bitmaps that Flash Player 10 allows for. In practice it turns out though that this value is much smaller, the reason for it I learned from Joa: memory…
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Penguin.SWF
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Solving Different Problems
27 Jan 2010 | 12:30 pmThe most common apples 'n oranges-style tech comparison I hear these days takes place between the Adobe Flash Player and pick-your-favorite-dedicated-video-player program. "Why does Flash Player take more CPU to play a video than my favorite video player?" It's a reasonable question and the answer can be distilled quite simply as, "The Flash Player solves a different problem than your favorite video player." This is the core thesis of coworker Tinic's "On Performance" blog post from some time ago which addressed complaints comparing the performance of AJAX, SVG, and even static HTML to Flash. -
Welcome to the Thicket
26 Jan 2010 | 5:00 pmIt seems that my Welcome to the Jungle post illustrating the mess of audio APIs in Linux has shaped up to be among the most popular on this blog. A picture is worth a thousand rants and all that. I sometimes consider updating that graph to reflect the current (surely messier) state of things. But I think it drives home its point nicely as is. Another topic that has arisen is hardware-accelerated video decoding, H.264 video in particular since that is the standard video format. There aren't nearly as many ways to do this as there are there are to, e.g., push time domain samples out to a… -
Flash Player 10 Security Update
10 Dec 2009 | 12:17 pmThere's a new version of Flash Player 10 available, designated version 10,0,42,34, which primarily addresses security issues. This update includes x86_32 Linux and even a refresh of the x86_64 version. In the interest of managing expectations, the new x86_64 version is not significantly different from the previous x86_64 version. It is different in that it contains the relevant security fixes and perhaps a few other low-risk fixes. Check the sidebar ("Adobe Flash Player For Linux") for download locations. This is the new current version of Flash Player 10, which is not to be confused with the… -
Flash Player 10.1 Beta
17 Nov 2009 | 12:01 amThe beta of Flash Player 10.1 is available for download via labs.adobe.com. For this beta release, there is only a 32-bit plugin available for Linux (64-bit users will still need to use the previously released alpha version). Bugs can be reported and tracked here. -
Hardware Accelerated Video Playback
9 Oct 2009 | 10:41 amCheck out this press release from earlier this week at Adobe MAX regarding the forthcoming Adobe Flash Player version 10.1 -- GPU-Accelerated Netbooks from HP, Lenovo and Samsung Support full Flash Player: The combination of NVIDIA GPUs and Adobe Flash Player 10.1 enables device manufacturers to deliver uncompromised Web browsing of rich applications, interactive content and HD video with substantially decreased power consumption. With the support of the NVIDIA GeForce®, NVIDIA ION™ and Tegra™ products users will be able to enjoy a much smoother viewing experience when accessing rich…
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RIAGENIC.com
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Multi-touch VJ..err..DJ…err..nevermind.
6 Feb 2010 | 1:29 amI’m about 10 days out until I get my hands on my multi-touch monitor from Dell. As a result of this long wait, I’m just exploring the web tonight to see what’s out there in multi-touch land. I came across this video via vimeo (which can I just say is where all the creative people youtube their work). The concept is by James Cui (VJ Fader) and what it appears to do is allow him and other VJ’s to synchronize with visuals (both for his input and the audience watching him). I’ve been to a couple of raves in my time (17/18 yrs old) and I can see how this could definitely up the fame… -
FUI – Igniting the Fantasy User Interface spark.
5 Feb 2010 | 10:08 pmIntroduction Every single time I’ve been given a brief to design something, I often will browse the internet for inspiration, in that I just need something to help nudge me into the direction of an idea. I also constantly keep mug shot’s of user interfaces that I often enjoy interacting with or spot parts of that simply are well designed. In the past probably 3 years, Industrial Design has also gotten a hold of me, as the more and more I see how devices are emerging onto the world technology landscape the more and more I get excited about the software that drives them – hence… -
My Slides: Microsoft UX: What Just Happened
4 Feb 2010 | 9:26 pmI’ve been travelling around Australia in the past few weeks talking about Microsoft UX and essentially “What Just Happened”. I’ve uploaded my slides to slideshare.com (though they don’t animate, booo hiss..) but none the less they are there for those who may have attended my presos to look at. The “What Just Happened” title came from an internal discussion list inside Microsoft, where I would decode movements on Adobe for all of Microsoft to get a better understanding of the PR spin coming from those guys. I’d essentially break it down into less… -
DataGrids are the safety blanket for bad design.
4 Feb 2010 | 12:45 amI’m constantly in and out of meetings with developers who are making some pretty intense Silverlight based solutions. It’s exciting and irritating at the same time to see them having all the fun in Silverlight and all I do is give advice etc on how to fix X or approach the product from Y lense. One consistent theme I often see a lot is the over-use of DataGrids. DataGrids are being used pretty much majority of the time to present any if not all large amounts of data and it absolutely baffles me personally as to why developers keep gravitating towards them? I say this, mainly as… -
Microsoft Innovation. If it falls, does it make a sound?
4 Feb 2010 | 12:30 amNew York Times has kicked up some serious dust in the Microsoft ethos around whether or not the company does innovate. I often have found myself at a cross-roads of agreeing and/or disagreeing with people like Dick around the term “innovation”. I say this as I pretty much agree with Dick’s arguments in the NYT, but at the same time I can’t but help remember the amounts of innovation I saw inside the company – especially in the last 3 years. I look at Microsoft Surface and can’t but help wonder at the actual spark of innovation around this product. I state…
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Silverlight Cream for February 08, 2010 -- #794
8 Feb 2010 | 3:06 pmIn this Issue: Fons Sonnemans, Mark Monster, Karl Shifflett, Einar Ingebrigtsen(2), Jeremy Likness, Emil Stoychev, Andrew Veresov, Sergey Barskiy(2), and Tim Heuer. Shoutout: Karl Shifflett announced Karl Now Using Vimeo for Videos... check it out, thank Karl, and create an acount. From SilverlightCream.com: Keyboard selection on Silverlight ListBox and ComboBox Fons Sonnemans explains and provides a behavior that allows keyboard selection on a ListBox or ComboBox. MeXperience – Step 3 – Architecture, implementing pipes and filters Mark Monster has part 3 of his MeXperience application… -
Silverlight Cream for February 05, 2010 -- #793
5 Feb 2010 | 9:51 amIn this Issue: Joel Neubeck, James Bacon, Jeremy Likness, John Stockton, Fredrik Normén, Subodh Pushpak, Alexander Golesh, PhaniRajuYN, Victor Gaudioso, and Syed Mehroz Alam. Shoutouts: Michael Sync posted the material for his My WPF MVVM Session at Consistel Michael also posted an interesting post Rules of MVVM?? Andrew Marshall reported to me that he now has the code posted for his Silverlight and CUDA interop article.. thanks Andrew! John Papa isn't wasting any time with Silverlight TV ... he's got Custom Preloader - Silverlight TV 006 with John Stockton up already... and did you notice… -
Silverlight Cream for February 04, 2010 -- #792
4 Feb 2010 | 8:52 amIn this Issue: Nokola, Braulio Díez Botella, Gavin Wignall, David Poll, Mike Taulty, Pete Brown, Tim Heuer, Bruce Abernethy(2), and Kathleen McGrath. Shoutouts: John Bruin has a fun Silverlight app up on his site: Silverlight Circle Twist ... with source. Pixel in Gene posted a Quick tip about changing SketchFlow’s startup page name (Silverlight) From SilverlightCream.com: EasyPainter Beta: Top Secret Online Image Editor Announced Nokola posted information about and a link to his EasyPainter Beta, and wow is this a very nice online 'paint' tool. I'm sure we're going to hear a lot about… -
Silverlight Cream for February 03, 2010 -- #791
3 Feb 2010 | 8:30 amIn this Issue: Joel Neubeck, Alex van Beek, Kirupa Chinnathambi, Jim McCurdy, Dave Britton, Laurent Bugnion, Brendan Enrick, Robby Ingebretsen, David Burela, and Lee. Shoutouts: Michael Sync put up a post about 3 new websites for Silverlight Community... good ones to aggregate I think :) John Papa announced a new episode up: Silverlight TV Episode 005 – Using Metadata with MEF I don't want to advertise this guy, but there is a site silverlight-travel dot com that is scraping Silverlight sites such as Josh Holmes, Mike Taulty, David Poll, Shawn Wildermuth, Jesse Liberty, etc. Laurent and I… -
Silverlight Cream for January 31, 2010 -- #790
31 Jan 2010 | 9:45 pmIn this Issue: Jeremy Likness, Vikram Pendse, David Burela(2), Paulio, David Anson, Jesse Liberty, and Brett Balmer. Shoutout: Jeremy Alles has a Minor update to the Silverlight MVVM frameworks explorer Seema Ramchandani posted his materials PDC video, TechEd Iceland, VS2010, profiling, Silverlight 4 Gavin Wignall blogged about Metia launch Silverlight banner with Deepzoom and Smooth Streaming! Andrew Myhre posted about his Silverlight Preloader Project on Google Code Jim Lynn has a post up about a presentation he did on Silverlight, Maps and the BBC From SilverlightCream.com: Introduction to…
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Microsoft Silverlight content
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Quick FAQ on Visual Studio 2010 RC release (February 2010) and Silverlight development
9 Feb 2010 | 7:37 amYesterday Microsoft announced that Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate was available for MSDN subscribers and would be generally available on 10 February 2010 for the public. This release represents a significant improvement in the overall Visual Studio...(read more) -
Answering A C# Question
8 Feb 2010 | 5:17 pmI often receive questions about topics covered in one or another of my books, and I respond, most often, privately. Every once in a while, however, a question comes along that may be of more general interest. This question, though about C#, has a profound...(read more) -
SketchFlow: Exploring Ideas
8 Feb 2010 | 6:36 amSketchFlow, the prototyping environment in Expression Blend, lets you build deep, dynamic prototypes with a lot of “real” interactivity. Sometimes, these deep prototyping abilities make it easy to forget about another side of SketchFlow – the side that...(read more) -
BBQ Shack – Ocean v2 for Visual Studio 2008
7 Feb 2010 | 12:16 pmWhat the Heck is BBQ Shack? In September of 2009 I went on a cruise to Alaska with a simple goal of writing a WPF application that shared business objects and Ocean framework code with a Silverlight 3 project within the solution. The WPF and Silverlight...(read more) -
Behind the Curtain
7 Feb 2010 | 6:46 amOur team (officially Community Program Managers, but from time to time our conceit is to call ourselves STO Ninjas) has quietly expanded over the past few months, including the additions of two amazing and terrific new voices: Pete Brown and Jon Galloway...(read more)
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Sun Bloggers
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Creating a kiosk app with JavaFX, Sun Ray, Solaris and yeah some middleware...
8 Feb 2010 | 2:41 pmI set out to see how easy or doable it would be to create a kiosk system that could be used in a Minority Report type of display. Let me state this experiment is in its very very non-Minority Report stage. The first stage of this experiment was simply to create a display mechanism that could be used to broadcast images using Thin Client technology. So I chose to create a JavaFX application that would talk to Rest based server I set up. Using JSON the JavaFX application would retrieve data to display on the thin client screen. Not to taxing but a good learning experiment. So what did I learn. -
NetBeans 6.8 Patch 1 - looot of fixes for JavaFX
8 Feb 2010 | 12:52 pmPatch 1 for NetBeans 6.8 has been released on Friday 2/5/2010. Update your IDE to get the latest JavaFX SDK 1.2.3 and 36 fixes in JavaFX area. disclaimer: all opinions/comments/ideas in this blog represent my view of the world. They may differ from a view or an opinion of my current/recent/future employer. All feature/product reviews/screencasts or presentations were taken from a parallel universe and are not connected with anything you know if not stated differently. -
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Java Download Service Listener
8 Feb 2010 | 8:16 amOne of the previous post [Applet Startup Time] provided a way to measure start-up time of JavaFX Applets. Many responded with requested information (Thanks a lot!). One of the main concern raised was high start-up time for "Without JavaFX Runtime". This is high because it includes time taken to download and install JavaFX Runtime. Unfortunately there was no way to notify the user about exact progress of this. Hence user will not be able to differentiate between download and install of "JavaFX Runtime" and "JavaFX Application". Recent JavaFX Update 1.2.3 reduced the download size and start-up… -
Oracle
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Latest Adobe News by Smart Category
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360Flex – Get your party on!
9 Feb 2010 | 10:46 amOne of the great things about 360|Flex are the parties. That's not to say the content isn't top notch, it's way more than top notch. But, the parties are just fun! We don't have several parties a night, we have one. Sponsored by an awesome company who wants to show the Flex community some love. (See below) The parties are onsite, right at Ebay. We bust out the Rock Band, the beer, the appetizers, and just geek out. The parties are a a great place to unwind after having insane amounts of knowledge pushing into your head all day. You -
Why you should attend Flex 360
9 Feb 2010 | 10:44 amIt has been a while since my last post, but I thought this was worth mentioning, as 360 Flex is fast approaching (March 7-10th in San Jose.) Flex 360 is BY FAR the best conference you will ever attend as it relates to Adobe Flex. Unfortunately this time around I will not have a [...] -
F3 v. F4 Tile v TileGroup
9 Feb 2010 | 10:42 amHere are two applications that perform the same task. They layout 9 custom button components in a grid. One is Flex 3 and the other is Flex 4. Main Application (Flex 3): 123456789101112131415161718<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" xmlns:local="*"> [...] -
360Flex – Speaker Chat – Eric Fickes and Jun Heider
9 Feb 2010 | 8:48 amWe're doing a double whammy chat this week on the 360|Flex Speaker Chat! Jun heider and Eric Fickes, who are doing a 2 part talk on RIA, Backend support and even Silverlight, are together for the chat. Between the two of them there's nothing you can't ask about RIA, ColdFusion, Flash development, heck ask what developing in Silverlight is like if you're curious :) This weeks speaker chat is Thursday Feb 11th, 11:30am MST. Don't miss it! Bookmark this link These chats are great ways to see what our speakers are up to and get a glimpse of how awesome -
The Master Flex ANT File
9 Feb 2010 | 8:47 amWhen this is all done and running, listen closely. Somewhere in the distance you can here “I HAVE THE POWER!“. Trust me, it’s being said – or maybe that’s just me. Seriously though, at this point you have one bad-ass ANT build file that will work right into your continuous integration script. Now you can make [...]
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Latest Adobe News by Smart Category
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London Event Tomorrow: RIAs with Java, Spring, Hibernate, BlazeDS, and Flex
9 Feb 2010 | 6:18 amTomorrow night, Wednesday Feburary 10 2010, I’ll be speaking to the London Java Community about RIAs with Java, Spring, Hibernate, BlazeDS, and Flex. I hope to see you there! -
GraniteDS for Flex 3 and Glassfish
8 Feb 2010 | 12:26 pmIs it just me or is GraniteDS just too complicated? I'm an expert using FMS Flash Media Server and I understand BlazeDS but Granite Data Services is beyond plug-n-play. First, what is the stack and why is it hard to figure out? Tide, EJB, Gravity, Po... -
AMFConnection for AMF remoting in Java
8 Feb 2010 | 6:39 amIn couple posts back, I talked about using NetConnection to talk to a remoting destination in BlazeDS/LCDS. This helps for pure Flash clients talk to BlazeDS/LCDS but what if you have a Java client app and you want to do a remoting call from your Java app, is this possible? That’s when AMFConnection comes into [...] -
Tour De LiveCycle updated for LiveCycle ES2
4 Feb 2010 | 6:35 pmAdobe has released an updated version of Tour de LiveCycle. This tool covers the entire LiveCycle ES 2 suite which is far more than simply data services. Topics include process management, rights management, document security, developer tools, end user interfaces and much more. There are over 1,000 pages of content and samples! If you [...] -
Tour de LiveCycle ES2 now available!
3 Feb 2010 | 2:20 pmBack in May, 2009 we launched Tour de LiveCycle (original blog post), a tool to help developers explore the vast array of features, tools and APIs in LiveCycle. This tool covers the entire LiveCycle ES 2 suite which is far more than simply data services. Topics include process management, rights management, document security, developer tools, [...]
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SproutCore Blog
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We’re coming to JSConf 2010!
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"I expect music and to some extent video to stay in iTunes or similar venues. Terrified book..."
1 Feb 2010 | 8:51 am“I expect music and to some extent video to stay in iTunes or similar venues. Terrified book publishers who want their DRM will likely stay in the iBooks zone, though hopefully Apple will let braver publishers in there without DRM. Customers will expect to find “books” there. It’s also clear that there will always be applications, notably games, which demand native code - Objective C on the iPad - to achieve the fastest possible response time, draw intricate graphics, or bind tightly to iPad features. There’s a future for all of those things, in their particular venues. But for… -
Testing and auto-generated ids in SproutCore
29 Jan 2010 | 11:13 ammartinottenwaelter: If you’re trying to automate tests of your SproutCore application with Selenium, for example, you’ll realise that the HTML element ids are automatically generated. They change every now and then and break all your tests. To get rid of this problem, you can override the layerId method of certain view classes to generate a stable, and human readable, id. The following code takes the view hierarchy, and generates an id based on the parents’ names. For example, the mainPage.mainView.someOtherView.theTargetView view will be given the mmsome.theTargetView id. -
Tasks
24 Jan 2010 | 11:49 pmTasks: In case you haven’t been following the mailing list, Suvajit Gupta and some associates have been working on a really nifty software planning tool called Tasks. They are using Tasks to plan some large software projects internal to their own company and they are also adding features we need to use Tasks to manage the SproutCore project as well. Thanks to their hard work, we now have an alpha version of Tasks up and running with all of the SproutCore issues ported over from Lighthouse at tasks.sproutcore.com. Please head on over and give it a try. Then leave a comment here or get on… -
"So again, the question isn’t Sproutcore vs. jQuery. In fact, you can (and probably will) use jQuery..."
2 Jan 2010 | 11:16 am“So again, the question isn’t Sproutcore vs. jQuery. In fact, you can (and probably will) use jQuery if you develop Sproutcore apps. The question really isn’t even Sproutcore vs. Flash vs. Silverlight, but it’s so easy to frame it up like that. The point of Sproutcore is that it provides the beginnings of an end-to-end application development strategy in HTML5 that competes with Adobe’s Flash Platform (Flash + Flex + Cairngorm + FlexUnit) and Silverlight’s presentation layer and tools.” - Thoughts On Sproutcore and App Dev In General « lukesh +interactive
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VITAMIN
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The Pipeline with Dan Benjamin
9 Feb 2010 | 5:48 amDan Benjamin recently blogged about his decision to venture into full time podcasting. We love to hear about anyone branching out and trying new things so we wish him all the best with his venture. Two of his new shows solo shows are The Pipeline and The Conversation: The Pipeline, an interview show talking with designers, developers, writers, and entrepreneurs. Episode one featured Jeffrey Zeldman and upcoming shows will include Kottke, Storey, Vaynerchuk, Coudal, Mann, Siracusa, and many more. The Conversation, a live-streamed talk show featuring topical discussions, reviews, special… -
Future of Web Design London 2010 is go
9 Feb 2010 | 4:56 amWe are delighted to announce that Future of Web Design will be returning to London for the 4th year running. Taking place from May 17th – 19th 2010 in the heart of London it will be packed full of great talks, workshops and networking opportunities. Grab the early bird discounts There are a number of early-bird offers available including £195 off a two day conference pass, they are limited in number so grab them whilst they’re hot. Amazing speakers Here’s just a few of the great speakers we have lined up for this year. Full details of their sessions are available on the new… -
Designing for donations
8 Feb 2010 | 5:57 amDonating money to a charity should be as quick and easy online as it is to stuff a few coins in a collection pot on the high street. It should also be apparent what the money will be used for. With these two things in mind, it is surprising how often charities miss the mark when it comes to their online donation screens. Fiddly pull-downs, peculiar microcopy, trillions of steps, and minimal transparency. Here are some of our step-by-step notes and drafts from a concept exercise on behalf of a well-known charity. The goal was to create a screen that encourages more site visitors to give, and… -
Bulletproof backups for MySQL
4 Feb 2010 | 5:27 amYou have all your important data backed up, right? I mean, come on folks, it’s 2010. We may not have flying cars yet like we’re supposed to, but “having backups” is a problem that’s solved. And I’m sure you’ve solved it. I’m sure you sleep well at night knowing that if a comet hit the data center where your website lives, and everything was completely destroyed, you could get back up and running somewhere else quickly enough. Except that the chance this is actually true for you, statistically, is very small. If we look at the statistics, then… -
Future of Web Apps Miami: Are you coming?
3 Feb 2010 | 3:09 amSave $50 off your pass by entering promo code THINKVITAMIN when booking your pass. Only 9 left! Buy your tickets now » Did you know Carsonified, the team behind Think Vitamin, also run a number of web industry events? In a couple of weeks we head off to Florida for the third Future of Web Apps Miami. It’s going to be a great three days (February 22nd – 24th) and will feature great speakers, in depth workshops and free University sessions all delivered by leading industry figures. Here’s a quick round up of what’s happening: Companies speaking at FOWA Miami 2010…
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Sean Moore - Flex Developer, AIR Developer, ActionScript Programmer
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SeanTheFlexGuy interviewed by FlashScope
1 Feb 2010 | 11:27 amJust a quick post to share this interview I had the opportunity to do for FlashScope. Here’s a snipped from the interview: Sean ‘the flex guy’ Moore is a highly visible blogger in the Flash Platform Community. He has been developing web applications for 12 years now and it’s no surprise that he was chosen to be a Flex Developer Community Champion by Adobe for his hard work and dedication to the Community. FlashScope decided to interview this prominent Flash Developer, and luckily Sean agreed to answer some of our questions.” Continue reading the full interview here:… -
seantheflexguyTV – episode 01: RobotLegs, Flex Unit 4, FlexPMD, FDT, RIATest and more!
30 Jan 2010 | 8:05 amHere’s the first episode of seantheflexguyTV! I’ll talk about several new Flex related tools and some software development books. I’d like to thank Jesse Warden for the inspiration and the nudge to get seantheflexguyTV started. More specifically in this episode I talk a little about: RobotLegs, Parsley, FlexPMD, RIATest, Hello Flex 4, Clean Code, 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know, Flex Unit 4 and FDT. Please let me know if you love/hate the series and if you have any feedback. You can reach me by email at: info@seantheflexguy.com. Thanks for checking it out. If… -
SeanTheFlexGuy: 2009 Accomplishments and Review
1 Jan 2010 | 12:46 pmTaking a look at everyone’s “2009 In Review” blog posts is really great inspiration. Looking back over the last year is always worth taking a minute to do. It’s great to reflect on personal growth over the course of a year and take note of our accomplishments. I decided to recall the last year for myself and put together a quick blog post. It was a pretty good year and I’ve learned a lot and continued refining my skills in my mission to become a “great” Flex developer. Here’s a rundown of what 2009 looked like for me: San Diego Flash Users… -
Neurosky MindSet Brain Computer Interface ActionScript 3.0 API
30 Dec 2009 | 3:44 pmSean wearing the Mindset Read and process data from your brain in ActionScript 3.0 with this open source API that I’ve created. You’ll need the Mindset hardware to utilize the full power of the API but you can run the ThinkGear Connector in “demo” mode and it will send simulated brain data to your app. I’ve been interested in Brain Computer Interfaces for a few years now and was pleasantly surprised to find that Neurosky is now selling an affordable headset that reads brainwave data. The development tools are available for download from the Neurosky website for… -
List of 34 More ActionScript 3.0 APIs
19 Dec 2009 | 11:19 amUsing an API can save time during the development process. The wonderful thing about the Flash Platform Community has always been the willingness to share. Here’s 34 more ActionScript 3.0 APIs that can be used for Flex, Flash and AIR development. Hopefully one of the APIs listed here or in one of my previous API listing posts can help you and your team save time. Happy Holidays!! ArcGIS API for Flex The ArcGIS API for Flex allows the creation of Rich Internet applications on top of ArcGIS Server. It is based on the free Adobe Flex framework. The Flex framework is a client-side…
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Peter Elst
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Project Cocoon has a new office
8 Feb 2010 | 7:13 amEarlier today we went to sign the agreement and left a deposit on the new Project Cocoon Multimedia apartments/office space in Colas Nagar, Pondicherry. We’ve now got ourselves a nice three story building that gives us enough space to have client meetings, organize training events and even have freelance developers over to work on projects as [...] No related posts. -
AIR 2 beta 2 – new printing features
3 Feb 2010 | 8:49 pmIn case you missed it — AIR 2 beta 2 is now available on labs.adobe.com and among a bunch of other things there are now some really cool additional printing features that give you a lot more control than what we used to have. Be sure to check out the video interview Ryan Stewart did with [...] No related posts. -
Trying out the iPad browsing experience
28 Jan 2010 | 3:56 amI did a little experiment this morning, disabling plug-ins in my browser aka “the iPad experience”. See where things start to break down? The Apple iPad web browsing experience, not quite what you expect. Yes, there are native apps for a number of these sites (social gaming on Facebook anyone?) I’m specifically talking about the [...] No related posts. -
Apple’s idea of the best web browsing experience
27 Jan 2010 | 3:53 pmJust hours after the product got announced, a lot has already been said and written about the Apple iPad and I don’t particularly feel I have a lot to add except for that “one more thing”. I’ve been working almost exclusively on Mac for about five years now and its a decision I’ve never regretted. One [...] No related posts. -
I’m auctioning שָׁלוֹם.com for Haiti disaster relief
25 Jan 2010 | 4:49 amWhen Internationalized Domain Names became available last year, I jumped on the bandwagon and registered a couple. One of these is שָׁלוֹם.com (Shalom as written in Hebrew). I’ve not done anything with it since and thought it would be a good way to raise money for Haiti disaster relief. I’m holding a blind auction, if you [...] No related posts.
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code zen
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IPad and the era of the digital magazine?
29 Jan 2010 | 5:34 pmThe reactions to the recent iPad launch have been fascinating to watch. My personal reaction is kind of mixed. For the last month or so I have been looking at ebook readers and am tempted to get the Kindle. The reader itself is a means to an end for me: its the Amazon library that is really tempting. I have been using the Kindle application on the iPhone and its surprisingly functional, even on the small screen. Given that, its tempting to consider the iPad instead of the Kindle (I would probably never use the Apple Book Store). I am not sure how Amazon’s business model is set up, i.e,… -
Thoughts on DaringFireball’s latest post on Apple and Flash. Lets Call a Spade a Spade can we?
25 Jan 2010 | 5:00 pmQuotes from the post and counter arguments: Apple isn’t trying to replace Flash with its own proprietary thing. They’re replacing it with H.264 and HTML5. This is good for everyone but Adobe. h264 is NOT part of the open web. Its proprietary technology that Apple (and Adobe) happen to own rights to and Apple has adopted that its core media technology. Frankly, there are enough posts out there that indicate Apple may actually want to sabotage the ogg-theora effort, you know, the real open source video codec? It’s a chicken-and-egg problem. Publishers use Flash for web video because Flash… -
AIR Utility code: Window Management for applications that run in the background
20 Jan 2010 | 3:17 pmThis is something I thought would take me a couple of hours to implement for the application I am working on but ended up taking way too long validating behavior and the gotchas between the PC and Mac OS’s so its definitely good utility code to keep in your toolbox. The behavior I was trying to mimic was that of apps that run in the background when the main window is closed and then can be re-invoked by clicking on the icon in the dock on the Mac or the system tray in Windows. First the API, which I am pretty proud of. To get the above behavior, once you have my class included in the… -
Congratulations to the CIM CrossPlatform team: Comcast’s MyDVRManager gets Gizmodo’d
16 Jan 2010 | 9:40 amThere is a lot of blood sweat and tears behind this product, but its pretty satisfying when you see how much people like it. CIM’s MyDVRManager application for remotely managing your DVR hit Gizmodo yesterday. The service is being rolled out in phases and a good way to check if you may have access to the application is if your on-screen guide has changed to look like the new one as in the video below: RDVR was also the biggest JavaScript/HTML based RIA I worked on with Chris, Mat and Bonnie (note: I have since moved from being Software Engineer to User Experience Technologist position… -
The obligatory 2009 recap post
5 Jan 2010 | 10:29 pmI dont think I have done an end of the year post ever, but 2009 was definitely eventful enough so here goes: Goodbye Flash Team: I began 2009 less than super excited. The Flash team I had worked with for the previous 4 years was disbanded in an internal reorg and I was now UI lead for the newly formed Cross Platform Engineering team. The team was going to be responsible for some of the most elaborate Rich Internet Applications to come out of Comcast Interactive Media such as the Remote DVR Manager as well as sites like the Video On Demand channel on Fancast.com, but all programming was done…
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12 ActionScript Tutorials About Button
30 Jan 2010 | 7:56 amNo matter Web or Windows program development, the button is a necessary role. There are many tutorials about button application in Flash with ActionSctipt. We have collected some for your reference. Some of them teach you how to create a button in flash, some of them introduced how to enable or disable a button with ActionScript. Hope you will enjoy them. Making a button work in Flash CS3 or Flash CS4 with ActionScript 3.0 It introduced how to create a button in Flash CS3 or Flash CS4 using ActionScript 3.0 step by step: Create a button, just as you would in Flash 8. Select the instance, and… -
6 Very Useful Classes for String in ActionScript
25 Jan 2010 | 7:39 amIn program development, string is a very important part. If we have many powerful classes about string, how easier the coding will be. Then we have collected a list about the string class for your reference. It will be ver helpful for your coding work not only save more time but also very convenient. As 3 Inflector The Inflector allows for pluralizing,singularizing,camel casing, underscoring, and humanizing words. AS3 StringTokenizer One useful utility in the java.util package is the StringTokenizer class. The ActionScript StringTokenizer is a convenience class which provides a simple… -
8 Classical ActionScript Classes About BitMap
18 Jan 2010 | 6:35 amBitmap is an often used graphics file format in program development. Then it seems how to master it is very important. In fact there are many very useful classes about bitmap can help you to easily create a Bitmap objects. Following we have collected 8 classical BitMap classes for your reference. Hope you can enjoy them. AS3 Scale9 Bitmap AS3 Scale9 Bitmap is helper class that lets you create scale9 sprites with bitmap data fill – originally this was not possible in Flash 9. The helper class creates a "fake" scale 9 sprite containing 9 shapes that scale according to… -
Top 20 Free XHTML/CSS Website Templates
10 Jan 2010 | 7:02 amIn previous article 12+ Free WordPress CMS/Magazine Themes, we have introduced some very useful wordPress for you blog. Then maybe you also need XHTML or CSS Website Templates. Here we have prepared top 20 free templates for your reference. Hope you can enjoy them. Blue Demo | Download BookStore Demo | Download Corporate Profiles Demo | Download Dally Studio Demo | Download Deep Blue Demo | Download EC Mania Demo | Download (need registration) Home Demo | Download Ideea Hosting Impress Demo | Download Mirax Development Demo | Download… -
Track in Effect in Flash Free Download
7 Jan 2010 | 6:01 amClick Here See SWF Live Download Flash Source Related PostCartoon Lathework In Flash(With .FLA) (0)Digital Rain Effect Flash Source Free Download (0)Fruit Drop From Tree Flash Source Free Download (0)10 Basic Flash Tutorials (1)12 Very Useful Applications Based on Flex/Flash (0)
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OSMF 0.9 Released
4 Feb 2010 | 2:02 amVersion 0.9 of the Open Source Media Framework has just been released. For those who haven't heard about OSMF (formerly codenamed Strobe) yet, it is an ActionScript based framework to help facilitate the easy development of media players running on the Flash Platform. The framework is open source and supports not only video and audio playback but also other asset types such as images, SWFs and the like. It could develop into a de-facto standard for Flash based media player development. With the 0.9 Sprint release the team have effectively locked the APIs in order to prepare for version 1.0. -
The Obligatory iPad Post
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Flash Video versus Desktop Video - Apples and Oranges
29 Jan 2010 | 3:56 amAmongst all the noise that is currently being emitted after the jesusiPad announcement there are a also some high quality gems of content emerging, and Mike Melanson's piece on the different problems which the Flash Player solves when it comes to video delivery is one of them. In particular Mike explains how a desktop video player and Flash Player differ. One obvious difference which surprisingly often gets overlooked, is that Flash Player is not just a video delivery medium but so much more than that. If you think back a few years there was barely any support for video in the Flash Player,… -
Stratus 2 Released, Takes Peer to Peer in Flash to New Levels
23 Jan 2010 | 6:33 amAdobe have just announced the immediate availability of the version 2 of Stratus, an update to the existing Peer 2 Peer rendezvous service that was launched in 2008. In Adobe's words: "Adobe Stratus 2 enables peer assisted networking using the Real Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP) within the Adobe Flash Platform. The most important features of RTMFP include low latency, end-to-end peering capability, security and scalability. These properties make RTMFP especially well suited for developing real-time collaboration applications by not only providing superior user experience but also reducing… -
Radical Flash Chat - Video Chat Framework
19 Jan 2010 | 1:26 pmI've just received an interesting email from Jaromir Sivic, a czech developer who sent me news about a project of his called 'Radical Flash Chat'. While I haven't tried myself yet, Jaromir describes it as a framework that enables PHP and ASP.NET developers to build and manage their own Video Chats, Flash Chats and other multimedia videconferencing applications easily in a very short amount of time. The configuration screen certainly looks quite promising, listing both Wowza and Red5 as a Media server option. There's also an online demo that you can try (that's if it is online, which seems to…
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Confessions of an Flash Addict
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Stress-Testing your server
4 Feb 2010 | 5:31 amAt the project i’m currently working on we do a lot of testing. Turns out we didn’t know if one of our servers was able to perform under high circumstances and we wanted to perform a stress test. One of our testers introduced me to Apaches JMeter. What i like a lot is the ability to record a test. It also allows you to test a lot of different protocols, HTTP, HTTPS, SOAP, Database via JDBC, LDAP, JMS, POP3(S) and IMAP(S) to name just a few. Make sure you check it out if you want to know how your application will perform with more than 10000 users at the same time! Please consider… -
Handy little snippet: System.setClipboard()
16 Nov 2009 | 3:35 pmJust so I don’t forget this: A little snippet to copy text from a textField to the clipboard. System.setClipboard(myTextFieldInstance.text); Please consider to buying me a coffee. HexoSearch -
Funky TAX Calculator
16 Nov 2009 | 3:29 pmA really long time ago, i created my ‘Funky TAX Calc’ and later on updated it. Now its better than ever What is it? Its a calculator that calculates the amount of tax for you. I was tired of doing all my invoices by hand so I created this. Whats new? Revamped U.I. You can adjust the percentage of TAX (or VAT or BTW) through an XML file in the installer directory. Copy every output value seperately to the clipboard with one click! You can download here or from Adobe’s AIR Marketplace. And ofcourse is this version also secured In this version you can also adjust the TAX value. -
Branding 101 for Developers part 3 of 4 and 4 of 4
15 Nov 2009 | 1:32 pmHad this post in my draft for a while now but its here to tell you my last installments on branding are published. Check out part three and four. Tell me what you think in the comments. Please consider to buying me a coffee. HexoSearch -
Changing the native cursor in FP10
15 Nov 2009 | 1:25 pmI just found out you can natively change the mouse cursor in Flash. This is handy if you want to have a different cursor when going over specific buttons or other DisplayObjects and don’t want to mess about with attaching clips to your mouse position. For documentation please go here Below is some quick code and an example: _arrow.addEventListener( MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, arrowOver ); _button.addEventListener( MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, buttonOver ); _hand.addEventListener( MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, handOver ); _iBeam.addEventListener( MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, beamOver ); _arrow.addEventListener(…
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Developer Techno
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Cocoa Language Options - Differences from Java and C++
9 Feb 2010 | 10:34 amWhile many people think of Java as being close to C++, this is not really true. The syntax is vaguely like C++, but semantically it inherits a lot from Objective-C. This is not surprising, since a lot of the people who worked on Java came from NeXT or were involved with OpenStep at Sun.Java was designed as a language for “average programmers,” incorporating an object model similar to Objective-C and syntax from C++. If you have used Java, Objective-C will be familiar to you. The type system is similar, with object types identified by interfaces and a few primitive or intrinsic types. -
Cocoa Language Options - Objective-C Compiler Choices
8 Feb 2010 | 11:27 amThe original Objective-C “compiler” was really a preprocessor that turned Objective-C code into C, which was then compiled with a C compiler. NeXT integrated this into the GNU Compiler Collection and produced a real compiler. Another project, the Portable Object Compiler, kept the old preprocessor model but has since evolved the language in a different direction, which has made it incompatible with GCC.With the introduction of OS X 10.6, GCC is seen as a legacy compiler. Although Apple will continue to support it for a while, it is not a good choice for new code. Due to licensing… -
Cocoa Language Options - Objective-C
7 Feb 2010 | 11:22 amObjective-C is a pure superset of C created by Brad Cox and Tom Love in 1986. They licensed the language to NeXT in 1988, and for a long time NeXT was the only major supplier of tools for the language.The Free Software Foundation often quotes Objective-C as a success story for the GPL. Steve Naroff wrote initial support for Objective-C in the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), but NeXT did not wish to distribute this code. Instead, it shipped a binary object file and required users to link it to their copy of GCC, attempting to circumvent the requirements of the GPL. The Free Software Foundation… -
Cocoa Language Options - Object Orientation
6 Feb 2010 | 10:19 amWhen most people think of Cocoa, they think of Objective-C. In the NeXT days, Objective-C was the only way of developing for OpenStep. With OS X 10.0, Java was supported as well, and with recent releases other languages have had support added, but Objective-C remains the standard language for Cocoa development.Objective-C itself has evolved a lot over the years. Under the direction of NeXT, it remained relatively static, but each release of OS X has introduced new versions. Java-like keywords for exception handling and synchronization were added over the years, and 10.5 introduced a complete… -
Understanding Cocoa’s Role in Mac OS X - XNU
5 Feb 2010 | 10:13 amThe core of Darwin is the XNU kernel. This is a single-server Mach microkernel with a BSD server derived largely from FreeBSD. The distinction between Mach and BSD in the XNU kernel is largely academic, since they both run in the same process. Mach in XNU fills a similar rˆole to the HAL in Windows. It is a small layer of platform-specific code that is easy to port to new architectures. It handles memory and process-related activities, but higher-level interfaces are all handled by the BSD layer. In addition, the BSD layer is responsible for providing a POSIX interface to the Mach…
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SilverlightShow: Silverlight Community
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SilverlightShow Eco Contest - just a few more days to enter!
9 Feb 2010 | 1:40 amAs you may already know SilverlightShow is running an Eco Contest and there are just a few days left to enter it. Use your Silverlight skills and imagination, and create a Silverlight application that helps support any kind of environment-friendly activities. The grand prize winner will go for trip to MIX10 event in Las Vegas and will get Telerik Premium Collection for .NET! More MIX passes await the first runner-up and the Community Choice award winner! Learn more on the prizes >> Six entries have been already submitted. Below you can find the last two of them. Water Facts by Carlos… -
Silverlight Tutorials: Silverlight Basic – SpinningCube
9 Feb 2010 | 12:56 amEinar Ingebrigtsen has created a Spinning Cube using the 3D projection in Silverlight. Silverlight has come a long way since its initial first release in 2007, but still real 3D is missing. In Silverlight 3 there has been done some work by Microsoft on the subject with the introduction of plane projection. For a simple cube like in this tutorial, one would be better off using that technique. But, if you want to represent more advanced geometries, the technique in this tutorial is better. -
Keyboard selection on Silverlight ListBox and ComboBox
9 Feb 2010 | 12:41 amFons Sonnemans demonstrates a behavior that allows keyboard selection on a ListBox or ComboBox. Silverlight doesn't support keyboard selection on a ListBox or Combox. I have created a small Behavior which fixes this problem. You can attach the KeyboardSelectionBehavior to a ListBox or ComboBox using Microsoft Expression Blend. You drag it from the Assets and drop it on your ComboBox or ListBox. If you have a custom ItemTemplate you will have to set the SelectionMemberPath property. -
Silverlight 4's New INavigationContentLoader Interface
8 Feb 2010 | 11:52 pmIn this post Jeff Prosise talks about the new INavigationContentLoader interface added to the run-time in Silverlight 4. One of the extensibility points added to the run-time in Silverlight 4 is the new INavigationContentLoader interface, which allows applications that use Silverlight's navigation framework to take control of page loading. In Silverlight 3, navigation URIs had to target XAML files containing Silverlight pages. In Silverlight 4, a navigation URI can target anything—a class name, a Web service that provides page content dynamically, or a XAML file contained in a remote XAP,… -
A Fluent RSS Reader for Silverlight Part 1: Proof of Concept
8 Feb 2010 | 11:29 pmJeremy Likness has posted part one of a series on creating a RSS reader for Silverlight. One of the most common examples to help learn a language or framework is an RSS Reader. This is an ideal mini-project because it includes networking, parsing XML, and binding to data elements such as lists. I wanted to provide an example that shows some more interesting solutions that are possible using C# in Silverlight. This is the first part in a series. By the end of this post, we'll have a working reader. What I'll then do is add some more detailed error handling, provide unit tests, tackle skinning…
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Problems with latest stable Flex 4 nightly build
4 Feb 2010 | 11:25 amI have commercial project in Flex 4. That’s great I always wanted to use Flex 4 for commercial project (otherwise I didn’t have time to work with Flex 4). It was too risky, because Flex 4 is just beta 2, but application depends on custom skinning, so we have decided to implement it in Flex 4 together with Flash Catalyst. Workflow is not ideal (as graphics designer didn’t know about Flash catalyst), but surely it was help (at least for cutting assets ). There were few problems, but after month of development and reading some stuff and tutorials on web I want to try use latest… -
Loosing children interactivity after setting perspectiveProjection
25 Jan 2010 | 1:58 amMy current project needs to use new native 3D in Flash Player 10. It seems so easy to use it, just set any 3d property like x,y,z or rotationX, rotationY, rotationZ and all should work perfectly. It seems so. But I have found problem and it seems it’s Flash player bug (I hope someone proves me wrong ). I need to change field of view of some DisplayObject to have different perspective as it is set by default. So I’ve done it in way var pp:PerspectiveProjection = new PerspectiveProjection(); pp.fieldOfView = 11; this.transform.perspectiveProjection = pp; it’s… -
Wordpress plugin Permalinks Changer
19 Nov 2009 | 11:07 pmTable of contents for wordpressWordpress plugin Permalinks Changer When you want to change your permalinks structure in Wordpress,there is easy way if your are Wordpress semi-advance user. But there are also Wordpress Newbies, which want to change Wordpress permalinks structure as well. I’ve created small wordpress plugin called Permalinks Changer, which helps you to change you permalinks structure in more friendly way. This was implemented as help to one of my friend in some private interner marketer forum. Now there are just 3 simple possibilities of permalinks structure: use your… -
Numeric sorting of Flex DataGridColumn
3 Nov 2009 | 4:18 amTable of contents for flex-tipsProblem with XML attributes in AS3.0Unable to export SWC oemNumeric sorting of Flex DataGridColumn This is quick example for Numeric sorting of Flex DataGrid columns. If you want to sort column in DataGrid, default sorting is sorted by String and not by Number. If you have just one numeric column, you may create custom sort function and set sortCompareFunction for given DataGridColumn. If you have more such columns and your dataProvider is ArrayCollection, which consists of many objects, better solution is override DataGridColumn and implement compare function… -
More Google Wave invitations
29 Oct 2009 | 3:43 amI get more Google Wave invitations today and as I have already invited my friends I have now free Google Wave invitations. So if you want to try Google Wave and play with it, but do not know anyone with Google Wave account, ask in comments. I will send 10 invitation for first 10 people which will ask for Google Wave invitation in comments.
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Serge Jespers
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My first hours with the Nexus One
8 Feb 2010 | 3:50 pmThere’s no denying that Apple did a terrific job with the iPhone. After walking around with PDAs and smartphones, Apple really changed the market and it took a while for competitors to catch up. I honestly never thought I would think about replacing my iPhone any time soon. Even with all its obvious flaws… But today, a late Christmas gift arrived in the form of a Google Nexus One. I had heard and read about it and really wanted to get my hands on one to see if it was really as fast and good as the reviews seemed to suggest. Today I finally got that chance and yes… the… -
Help improve Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0
8 Feb 2010 | 4:54 amAdobe engineering is headed into the final stretch of development of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0. We need community help to identify quality issues with your deployed and in-development content. While both Flash and AIR are tested extensively internally, every beta we receive valuable feedback from the Flash community and beyond. Here is how you can get involved: Download and install Flash Player 10.1 Beta 2 and AIR 2.0 Beta 2 Test the new beta runtimes with your content and applications. Log bugs at bugs.adobe.com. Engineering teams use your bug reports to reproduce errors and… -
Package Assistant for AIR 2 update
5 Feb 2010 | 1:19 amJust before the holidays, I released an alpha version of my AIR 2 Package Assistant application. As many of you know, AIR 2 allows you to build native installers. The only downside is that you have to use the command line in order to package these native installers. I have just narrowed down the possible solution for the only reported problem. Some of you got an “Invalid input” error message and the packaging failed. I think this may be caused by forgetting to include the icons you use for the app. You have to include these in the final step where you add any additional files to… -
Kevin Lynch (Adobe’s CTO) blogs about Flash, past and future, Apple iPad, HTML5, OSP and more.
2 Feb 2010 | 9:10 amAdobe’s CTO Kevin Lynch just published a blog post with his thoughts on Flash, past and future, Apple iPad, HTML5, OSP and more. The blog post entitled “Open Access to Content and Applications” gives you a good idea on where Adobe and the Flash Platform is going and what we are doing with our Open Screen Project partners. It also repeats that “we are ready to enable Flash in the browser on Apple’s devices if and when Apple chooses to allow that for its users, but to date we have not had the required cooperation from Apple to make this happen.” Read the post… -
The iPad’s browsing experience
28 Jan 2010 | 9:42 pmMy fellow evangelist Lee Brimelow created an accurate view of the browsing experience on Apple’s new iPad. Sometimes a picture does say more than a thousand words… Go check it out on Lee’s blog.
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Silverlight | WPF | Microsoft.Net
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Silverlight 4 How to Command Control
6 Feb 2010 | 10:20 amCheckout my latest article on the use of commanding in Silverlight 4. In this article I demonstrate how through the use of commanding and intelligent binding we can virtually eliminate all code behind and implement to a strong MVVM architectural pattern. -
Silverlight 4 Webcam Article
12 Dec 2009 | 11:08 amCheckout my latest article on the use of the Webcam in Silverlight 4. The article demonstrates how to attach to a device apply a PixelShader then store a captured JPEG in Isolated Storage . -
Navigation Transitions with WriteableBitmap
14 Aug 2009 | 10:16 amIf you have not had a chance to play with Navigation Frames in Silverlight they are very cool, they give developers the ability to navigate between "Page" within a single Silverlight Solution. The first time I used them I could believe how easy it was to implement. You simply add a few pages to your solution, drop a Navigation:Frame on to your MainPage.xaml UserControl and define some UriMappers. One thing that i thought was missing was the ability to create nice looking transitions between pages as they are loaded into a frame. Recently I voiced my complaint… -
Control Visibility with triggers
10 Aug 2009 | 2:30 pmI absolutely love writing triggers for Silverlight 3. As UX developers we often faced with the challenge of finding ways to fit a ton of information on a single user input screen. On occasion, some of that information may only be relevant to display if users have made certain choices on the interface: checking a box, selecting an item in a combobox or listbox. In this post I will include two custom TargetedTriggerAction’s which allow a developer to easily tie a UIElement’s visibility to an action made on another control. VisibilityIsChecked This first trigger I very… -
Silverlight 3 Flip TargetedTriggerAction
6 Aug 2009 | 3:36 pmLast week I created a Trigger Action which flipped a panel. It was intended to be invoked from clicking on the panel directly. Earlier today I was asked if you could invoke this trigger from multiple places. The answer is no, but it is very easily to rewrite this trigger to achieve this behavior. In this blog post I am going to create a TargetedTriggerAction which allows me to add the trigger to a button or multiple UIElement and “Target” a panel to be flipped. What is really cool about this approach is that each button can contain the logic used to flip the panel (Storyboard…
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Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer
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AIR 2 Beta 2 Available – Much Improved Printing Support
3 Feb 2010 | 3:41 pmIf you missed it yesterday, AIR 2 beta 2 is now available on Adobe labs. This release includes some bug fixes, some optimizations, and a few new features including support for TLS/SSL socket communication and much improved support for interacting with printers. I sat down with the engineer who did a lot of the work on the new printing API and interviewed him about it. He also walked me through a demo of the new features. The APIs let you have complete control over printing and customize the experience. It’s worth checking out. Discussing New Printing Features in the AIR 2 Beta 2 from… -
Important Flex 3.5 Update
2 Feb 2010 | 10:53 pmIf you have updated to Flex 3.5 you want to be sure to grab the new version of the SDK. There is a bug that has been fixed which caused issues with the auto-update UI. Here’s the scoop. The Flex team has released an update to the 3.5 SDK that addresses an issue with the Flex-based AIR auto-update UI packaged within the SDK (SDK-24766). The refreshed build, SDK 3.5a, has only a few files modified in order to fix this issue and this change does not affect the signing and caching of the SDK 3.5 RSLs originally released in December. We encourage all developers using SDK 3.5 to upgrade their… -
HTML and Flash Thoughts
2 Feb 2010 | 5:12 pmKevin Lynch blogged today in response to a number of issues that have cropped up recently and does a great job of laying out both Adobe’s vision for Flash and for web tools. That and a couple of other posts got me thinking a bit. The first is Jeffrey Zeldman’s post. He contrasts Flash with some of the benefits of standards. Most of the time I see “HTML5 is going to kill Flash!!” without any kind of rational conversation on why. Jeffrey does a better job than most. His intro paragraph is a perfect example: Lack of Flash in the iPad (and before that, in the iPhone) is a… -
The Locked iPuzzle
29 Jan 2010 | 1:04 pmSo the iPad came and as expected, everyone can’t stop talking about it. I was cautiously optimistic about Apple’s tablet. I’m a sci-fi fan with a gadget fetish and I was loving the idea of carrying around a computer tablet just like they do in all of the latest science fiction movies. And Apple has a way of completely turning the computing world upside down. They have an elegance and polish that makes the intersection of software and hardware a nirvana. Part of that is because they rule their platforms with an iron fist. The iPhone is obvious. It’s arguably the most… -
On Google, YouTube, HTML5, Adobe, and Flash
21 Jan 2010 | 5:48 pmLast night Google blogged about how they were experimenting with offering some videos on YouTube that support the HTML5 video tag and the H.264 codec, and that work in Chrome and Safari. This is part of TestTube, where YouTube’s engineers test out different products without rolling them into the main YouTube experience. YouTube and Flash obviously have a deep relationship. It was Flash that helped YouTube become one of the most visited sites on the Internet, and YouTube has helped increase penetration of newer versions of Flash Player by rolling out features, like H.264 support, that…
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Anthony's Blog
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Mass Confusion: The hysteria over Flash, Silverlight, HTML 5, Java FX, and Objective C
1 Feb 2010 | 3:41 pmI’ve been working on a whitepaper titled “Choosing The Appropriate Web User Interface Technology” for more than a year now, with input from Sun, Adobe, Microsoft and everyone here at EffectiveUI. I’ve rewritten the damn thing four times now and have decided to abandon the effort. The blunt truth is that there is no credible [...] -
Software Planning and Requirements – Effective UI
26 Jan 2010 | 2:51 pmThought I’d share an excerpt from Chapter 3 of our book “Effective UI: The Art of Building Great User Experience in Software“. By far, this the most definitive explanation of why enterprises need to reconsider how they’ve approached software development in the past. RFPs, Fixed Bidding, Waterfall, all have dangerous implications to the success of [...] -
Predictions on the new Apple Tablet
25 Jan 2010 | 4:02 pmI thought I’d have a little fun predicting what Apple will be announcing on Wednesday. Apple will preview OS 10.7, it will feature: the once code-named “Marble Interface” be more oriented to gesture based interactivity snow-leopard was almost a complete rewrite, no big new features. 10.7 will be focused on “sexy” new features that were left out of snow-leopard Apple [...] -
How to break a patent in 5 minutes
22 Jan 2010 | 1:57 pmPatents were invented in order to encourage innovation. They are supposed to protect inventors that spend money in research or discoveries made by innovative thinkers. Without them, many would argue, the United States would not have ever seen the industrial or digital revolutions. However, there are enterprises that using the patent system in a way that [...] -
Apple’s iPhone dominance is going to be hard to topple
7 Dec 2009 | 3:40 pmInteresting article today on Flurry (and also summarized on MacRumors.com) We’ve been internally debating about Apple’s continued dominance in the smart-phone market. I’ve taken the position that Apple will be the leader for at least 4 years, it appears I may have been understating it bit. Looking at the chart above, it becomes clear that Apple is [...]
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Tech Spheres
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Intuit Partner Platform + Windows Azure = Win for Small Businesses
20 Jan 2010 | 8:15 amSuper-excited to be announcing the relationship between Intuit and Microsoft to bring great apps to Small Business. This is a huge step for IPP and real validation of our strategy and the effort our team has put in the past two years. Can’t wait for what happens next! -
Google Fast Flip is Death to the Newspaper Industry
15 Sep 2009 | 7:05 amFirst off, I think Google Fast Flip is very cool and I’ll probably use it myself. But after reading the press on it, I’ve been surprised that no one has connected the dots on what this means for Google and for the Newspaper industry. Yes, Google is trying to solve for “Speed” and trying to “make the world a better place” (from the TechCrunch 50 video) but in all seriousness, they’re also a business trying to make big bets – and revolutionizing the newspaper industry is a big opportunity. Here’s what I gleaned from their presentation: 1) The unit of news is… -
Amazon Kindle – The New Bathrobe?
18 Aug 2009 | 5:31 amLast week, as I jammed another vanilla copy of USA today in my backpack to head toward SFO and a 6 hour flight home, I yearned for the sports section of the Boston Globe so I could read all the ugly analysis of why the Red Sox were sucking recently. And then it hit me – why in the world hasn’t Amazon capitalized on the hotel market? I’ve spent somewhere between 150-200 nights a year in hotels of varying classes in the past 3 years and besides the standards (bed, towels, tiny shampoo bottles) there are a couple of other items in almost every hotel: A silly copy of USA today every… -
Federated Applications on Intuit Partner Platform
3 Jun 2009 | 6:13 amToday, we are pleased to announce the release of “Federated Applications” on the Intuit Partner Platform. It’s been a blast to work with our Rock-Star team to deliver this and I want to personally welcome our five new developers, VerticalResponse, DimDim, Rypple, Setster, and ExpenseWare, that have gone through federation already. It’s always scary going first, but these folks have been great partners and I look forward to their awesome success! Here is some more information on the details of federation and how you as a developer can get started. (Originally posted) -
I want to be an “uber-lemming”
21 May 2009 | 6:26 amThis morning I was telling Alex Barnett how much I was loving using Bit.ly to track links that I post to my twitter feed - seeing in real-time the users following the links. Wicked cool! And Alex said, “Oh yeah, you got 500 clicks on the Intuit Green link yesterday.” WHAT!?! How did he know? I hadn’t realized that you could see the traffic of other bit.ly url’s. So after doing a little digging and reading James Governor and Marshall Kirkpatrick’s thoughts on “Twitter Crowns Bit.ly As The King of Short Links; Here’s What It Means”…
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Peter deHaan
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This Weeks Top Posts (1/24)
24 Jan 2010 | 9:12 amHere is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flash Builder (formerly Flex Builder), Adobe AIR, Flash Player, Flash Authoring, and Flash Media Server teams. Flex Team blog: Flex SDK 3.5 Released Just Suppose (Corey Lucier): Getting Fancy with Flex 4, Get Fancy with Flex 4 - Part Two James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Integrating Adobe Flex with IBM WebSphere Portal Codedependent (Chet Haase): Video: Visual Component State Feedback Alex's Flex Closet (Alex Harui): Constrained Drag and Drop Flexponential (Kevin Lin): Resizable TitleWindow in Flex 4 James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Flash… -
The Flex 4 'halo' namespace is now the 'mx' namespace
7 Dec 2009 | 6:19 pmWith Flex SDK SVN trunk revision 12635 the Flex 4 SDK no longer supports the "library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo" component namespace. MX components should be referenced using the "library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" namespace. For example: <s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"> For more information see http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-24568 and http://forums.adobe.com/message/2445911. -
Adobe MAX 2009 sessions posted on Adobe TV
8 Oct 2009 | 12:06 pmI posted this on my twitter account last night, but the Adobe MAX 2009 sessions have now been posted on Adobe TV at http://tv.adobe.com/channel/max/max-2009. I did a quick scan and here's a list of the Flex/Flash Builder specific looking sessions: "Coding with Flash Professional and Builder" -- Rebecca Sun "Flash Professiona, Flash Catalyst, and Flash Builder: Facts, Features, and (Work)Flows" -- Richard Galvan, Ryan Stewart, and Serge Jespers "Preview: Flex For Mobile Devices" -- Ely Greenfield, and Greg Burch "Flash Builder 4 Advanced Tips and Tricks" -- Scott Evans "The Advantages of Flex"… -
I now own all four halo colors
4 Oct 2009 | 10:23 pmThe other day I noticed on Lee Probert's blog that he bought himself a fancy new hex color from MyHexColor.com for the grand total of $1. So I'm proud to say that I'm now the owner of the following four "halo" colors: haloBlue, haloGreen, haloOrange, and haloSilver. -
Adobe Flash Builder 4 beta 2 now available!
4 Oct 2009 | 10:07 pmI just noticed on the Adobe Flash Builder Labs page that Flash Builder 4 beta 2 is available for download; http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_flashbuilder4 (Release Notes) Also, head on over to the Adobe Flex Developer Center and check out the following articles: What's new in Flash Builder 4 beta (updated for beta 2) What's new in Flex 4 beta (updated for beta 2) Five great new features in Flash Builder 4 beta Got questions? Visit the Labs forum for Flash Builder 4. Found a bug (or have an enhancement request)? Visit the Flex Bug base. Also, don't forget about the…
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Kevin Towes on Online Video at Adobe
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Lost in Flash
3 Feb 2010 | 7:36 amAny of you Lost fans out there notice that you can now watch Lost, the final season and lots of other shows on ABC.com now testing Adobe Flash player to stream this episode. That's right - no more extra downloads are needed to watch this great show on ABC.com in amazing high quality. Nice job ABC! -
RTMFP Groups / Multicast now available from Adobe Labs
22 Jan 2010 | 3:23 pmToday, we released Stratus 2 RTMFP introduction service with full support RTMFP Groups. With this updated service, developers can start exploring a full set of Peer Assisted Networking functionality within Flash player 10.1 and AIR 2.0. You can access your Developer key and more details here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/stratus/ Adobe® Stratus 2 enables peer assisted networking using the Real Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP) within the Adobe Flash® Platform. RTMFP is the evolution of media delivery and real time communication over the Internet enabling peers on the network to assist… -
Epix brings thousands of films to Cox subscribers using Adobe Flash
12 Jan 2010 | 10:27 am2010 is going to be an exciting year for Video on the web. Last year we saw un-precidented investment into new businesses using Video to drive new revenue streams. Studios and broadcasters enabled more content to be made available on the web, and in Flash using content protection measures such as RTMPe + SWFVerification. In 2010, you can expect even more. Epix (a JV between Viacom, Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate) was a great example of a new business choosing the Adobe Flash Platform to provide access to over 3,000 films using Flash Media Server, and the Dynamic Streaming experiences to serve a… -
Medici.tv using the Adobe Flash Platform to deliver high quality music performances online
8 Jan 2010 | 6:45 amWe just released a case study for Medici.tv describing how they've used Flash and Flash Media Server to deliver over 100 live concerts each year to a live audience of 80,000 each time. They launched the service back in May 2008, and have served 3.4 million free live webcasts of concerts from around the world. If you haven't seen this experience, you have to visit their site: http://www.medici.tv/. As soon as you reach the site, you get full-browser video with interactive overlays, that let you browse details about the concert, and search their site - without leaving the experience. The sound… -
Flash Media Server 3.5.3 update now available!
18 Dec 2009 | 12:26 pmToday we released our 3rd service pack for Flash Media Server 3.5 (now v3.5.3). This service pack includes many bug fixes and performance improvements for DVR, Dynamic Streaming and playback. The release also includes security fixes to correct critical vulnerabilities in previous versions. You can download the update and review the release notes here: http://www.adobe.com/support/flashmediaserver/downloads_updaters.html This version of Flash Media Server includes significant fixes for DVR that will make it easier to deploy in large scale networks, and includes support for SWFVerification…
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ThinkTank | The XLabz Blog
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XLabz releases it’s first iPhone app – Find Near Me
9 Feb 2010 | 3:08 amWe released our first iPhone application named “Find Near Me” on the app store last week and we should say we are very impressed by the numbers – ~3000 installs in a matter of just 5 days. Considering that it’s available for free we personally don’t see this as a large number but nevertheless the fact that the consumption rate is this good it still something to be considerate off. “Find Near Me” is a easy to use application which helps you find ATM’s, Bank, Restaurants, Wi-Fi spots or virtually anything near you. The application uses the in-build GPS in the… -
Flash Builder 4 & Flash Catalyst Release & Resources
1 Jun 2009 | 11:57 pmThe long awaited public beta release of Flash Builder 4 (formerly Flex Builder) and Flash Catalyst are now available for download from Adobe Labs site. Just after hours of the release there were quite a lot of tutorials, how-to’s and reviews all over the web from Adobe’s Platform Evangelists and a few other prominent developers. Adobe has compiled a very useful set of videos which illustrate the various features in Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst here. While you are there don’t forget to check out the set of Flash Catalyst tutorials – most of them are pretty interesting. -
Flex Builder = Flash Builder
17 May 2009 | 7:48 pmAdobe has decided to name the next release of Flex Builder 4 as Flash Builder. It’s a good move by Adobe though it doesn’t change much about the underlying technology. Since most of the new comers to the Flex world are quite confused about the difference between Flash and Flex it makes perfect sense to let the product name reflect it. There might be some confusions and concerns though on this change since all of us are now so used to the word “Flex”. Personally, I think this should have been done much earlier. We hear that Flex SDK and Flex Framework are going to still retain… -
The Paradigm Shift – Flash to iPhone
18 Feb 2009 | 10:35 amAnyone who has been following the Flash community closely would have noted that there is a “sign” of paradigm shift which we see in the Flash community. I am not sure if we can yet call it so, but there seems to be some early indicators of such a change. From Flash to iPhone As we have seen in the recent past, a few Flash enthusiasts who have been quite active in the Flash community have started developing apps for the iPhone. A few prominent of them being, Keith Peters who released his game on the App Store recently (heard that it’s doing fairly well), he also has written a few AS3 to… -
Nokia Services API – Flash Lite just got more powerful !
12 Feb 2009 | 6:32 amHow many times, as a Flash Lite Developer have you come across an iPhone application which used the GPS and did some cool thing with your location or allowed you to use the Accelerometer feature and play a car game. As a Flash Lite developer one has always felt the urge to gain more control of the device and do things at the core application service level which you see iPhone Developers did with their iPhone apps. Now there is an answer to this (at least partially) – Nokia has released an Flash Lite Services API as part of the S60 5th Edition SDK & Tools which allows Flash Lite…
