Peter deHaan

Somewhat of a short list, but here is a list of posts from the past couple weeks from my Flex examples blog, blog.flexexamples.com:

• Creating a view cursor on an ArrayCollection in Flex
• Removing items from a Flex DataGrid control using the DragManager class
• Adding links to a Panel container’s status text in Flex
• Setting the background alpha on a VideoDisplay control in Flex
• Setting the background color on a VideoDisplay control in Flex
• Setting the separator color on a LinkBar control in Flex
• Setting the horizontal spacing between items in a LinkBar control in Flex
• Setting the vertical spacing between items in a LinkBar control in Flex
• Looping over each item in an Array in ActionScript 3.0
• Setting the letter spacing in the RichTextEditor control in Flex
• Sequencing effects in Flex using the mx:Sequence tag (redux)
• Condensing HTML white space in the TextArea control in Flex
• Condensing HTML white space in the RichTextEditor control in Flex
• Setting text selection on a TextArea control in Flex
• Setting the disabled text color on a TextArea control in Flex
• Setting a custom tool tip field on a ButtonBar control in Flex

Here is a list of some of the various blog posts from the Flex SDK, and Flex Builder blogs that I’ve been reading over the past week:

• Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): MXNA Upgrade: In Progress ( New Hardware and CF8 )
• FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): Adobe India Flex Team Blogroll
• Flex Doc Team blog: Extracting data visualization source code
• James Ward – RIA Cowboy: Top 10 Mistakes when building Flex Applications
• FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): “Top 10 Mistakes when building Flex Applications” – My 2 cents
• Codedependent (Chet Haase): JavaOne, Too
• James Ward – RIA Cowboy: JavaOne 2008 Festivities
• James Ward – RIA Cowboy: Talkin’ About a Revolution
• James Ward – RIA Cowboy: May 1st Flex Presentation in Salt Lake City
• Rob Adams’s User Eccentric: FIG Evaluation – The New Dilbert.com
• much ado about something (Narciso (nj) Jaramillo): Video interview with me about Thermo
• Flex Team blog: New search/commenting for Adobe Flex Developer Center
• Flex Doc Team blog: New “Community Help” features for Flex
• FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): community.adobe.com/ion
• Buntel Blog (Tim Buntel): $100 feature test for expert developers

Plus, check out Trevor McCauley’s excellent Security and policy file presentation that he gave at the Bay Area Application Developer Adobe User Group (BAADAUG):

• senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): BAADAUG Security and Policy File Presentation

Here is a list of some of the various blog posts from the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, and Flash Platform blogs that I’ve been reading over the past week:

• Codedependent (Chet Haase): Time’s Up
• James Ward – RIA Cowboy: Video: Building Turbulent AIR Applications on Linux
• James Ward – RIA Cowboy: Flex 3 Skin Transitions with Degrafa and AnimateColor
• Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): MAX 2008 – Lab computers: Yours or Ours?
• Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Adobe MAX 2008: Lab Computer Survey
• Rob Adams’s User Eccentric: enabled=”false” Considered Harmful
• Flex Doc Team blog: Building Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES Beta 2 Applications
• FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): DataPush & Remoting in Flex with Java, .NET, PHP, Python, Ruby and more…
• Flex Team blog: Flex Camp Toronto 2
• Flex Doc Team blog: Using an HTML page as a data provider

There have also been some good posts over on the Flash Platform blogs:

• Justin’s Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Flash Player 9, update 3 at 62% in 3 Months!!
• Francis Cheng: Object Initializers and Fixtures for ECMAScript 4th Edition
• Penguin.SWF (Mike Melanson): Spring Security

UPDATE: Bonus link; Mike Chambers: Download Adobe AIR 1.0 for JavaScript Developers Book

Somewhat of a short list, but here is a list of posts from the past seven-ish days from my Flex examples blog, blog.flexexamples.com:

• Centering a pop up window when a Flex application is resized
• Skewing an Image control in Flex
• Resetting a sort on a DataGrid control in Flex
• Creating a custom sort on a DataGrid control in Flex
• Removing the track skin from a List control in Flex
• Getting JavaScript variables into your Flex applications using the ExternalInterface API
• Changing the focus rectangle color on a TextInput control in Flex
• Creating a pop up TitleWindow using the PopUpButton control in Flex
• Calling a simple web service from Flex using the WebService class

Here is a list of some of the various blog posts from the Flex SDK and Flex Builder team’s blogs that I’ve been reading over the past week:

• Kevin Hoyt: JavaScript for Tabular Data with Flash CS3 and AIR
• Pearls of Flex (Sreenivas Ramaswamy): Writing a Custom Aggregator for Flex OLAP, Custom Aggregator sample for Flex OLAP, and Using Flex OLAP/OLAPDataGrid for doing Pivoting computations
• Flex Team blog: New Pivot Component in Alpha
• Matt Chotin: More testing support for Flex from Borland
• Tom Jordahl’s musings: BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services Channels, Sweet Flex and BlazeDS sample application, Another Flex and BlazeDS demo application, and LiveCycle Data Services 2.6 Public Beta
• Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Flash Player Public Bug and Enhancement Database is now online!
• Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Adobe MAX has a new URL: MAX.ADOBE.COM (Reminder: MAX 2008 North America will be held in sunny San Francisco, November 16-19, 2008! You can also catch MAX 2008 Europe in Milan, Italy from December 1-4, 2008, and MAX 2008 Japan in Tokyo, Japan in 2009)
• Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): DARE 1.0 BETA (MAC) – The Adobe AIR Development Web Server
• James Ward – RIA Cowboy: Bursting Bubbles
• Codedependent (Chet Haase): Off the [Bubble]Mark
• Matt Chotin: Flex and AIR books abound!
• Flex Team blog: Info on our first Flex 4 theme

And as an added bonus, here are a few good posts I found from various members of the Flash Player team:

• Justin’s Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Flash Player 9.0.124 live
• senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Flash Player Update Now Available (Flash Player 9,0,124,0)
• Justin’s Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Where is the Debug Flash Player 9.0.124?
• Justin’s Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Flash Player Needs Your Vote
• Francis Cheng: Flash Player Public Bugbase Introduced
• Justin’s Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Allowing Headers in crossdomain.xml
• Justin’s Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): AIF Toolkit Refresh on Adobe Labs
• Flash Player Developer Center (Trevor McCauley & Edwin Wong): Introducing the Flash Player bug and issue management system
• Flash Player Developer Center (Adobe): Understanding Flash Player 9 April 2008 Security Update compatibility

Flash Player 9,0,124,0 is now available for download! For more information, see Justin Everett-Church’s blog entry, Flash Player 9.0.124 live, and Preparing for Flash Player 9 April 2008 Security Update/

Also, the Flash Player team is using the JIRA bug base, https://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer/. For more information, Justin Everett-Church’s blog entry, Flash Player Needs Your Vote.

If you haven’t used the Adobe Bug Base before (it is currently used for Flex and Blaze DS, mostly), you can find an excellent overview here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/tmccauley_fplayer_bugbase.html.

Adobe Media Player Now Available
New Adobe AIR Application Redefines Next-Generation TV Experiences for Viewers and Broadcasters — Adobe today announced the immediate availability of Adobe Media Player 1.0 software… (more)
Adobe Media Player is available for immediate download at http://www.adobe.com/go/mp.

New Adobe TV Programming Comes Online
Unique Creative Suite 3 Video Content Available Via Adobe Media Player and New Web Destination — Adobe today announced Adobe TV, a free online video resource for expert instruction and inspiration about Adobe products, including the company’s Creative Suite 3 family of world-class creative tools… (more)
Adobe TV is immediately available online from the Adobe Web site at http://tv.adobe.com/.

The Boston Flex User Group will be having their first ever meeting on April 8th at the Adobe Newton office. Festivities include pizza, drinks, a raffle for Flex 3 Professional, and Adobe developer Peter Farland will be speaking on the Open source Flex SDK. Please RSVP at http://bostonfug.eventbrite.com/ if you’re planning to attend.

For more information, see Peter Farland’s blog (“Flex User Group Boston”) , and Tom Jordhal’s blog (“Boston gets a Flex User Group”) and the Boston Flex User Group site at http://www.bostonfug.org/.

Here is a list of some of the various blog posts from the Flex SDK and Flex Builder team’s blogs that I’ve been reading over the past week:

• Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): Creating smooth rollOver and rollOut Effects
• Mac Martine: Linux: chcon to change security context (to solve permissions problems with mounted shares)
• Peter Ent: itemRenderers: Part 5: Efficiency (also see Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4)
• Mac Martine: Flex and ColdFusion: RemoteObjects and WebServices
• Flex Team blog: Flex, ActionScript and AIR Posters: Now Shipping
• Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): ILOG Elixir Flex Components
• Flex Doc Team blog: Adding Java Development Tools to Flex Builder Standalone
• Pete’s Blog (Peter Farland): Flex User Group Boston
• Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): “AIRpache” – A Simple AIR development server

Finished reading all those? Why not check out some of the recent examples from my Flex Examples blog, blog.flexexamples.com!

I “forgot” to post this last week, but here is a list of posts from the past 14ish days over on my Flex examples blog, blog.flexexamples.com:

• Accessing a TitleWindow container’s internal close button in Flex
• Setting the header height on a Flex TitleWindow container
• Setting the menu selection mode on a DataGrid control in Flex
• Using embedded fonts with tool tips in Flex
• Converting an array of String objects to an array of Object objects in Flex
• Setting the bar skin on a ProgressBar control in Flex
• Setting the border color on a ProgressBar control in Flex
• Displaying scroll tips in a List control in Flex
• Dynamically loading XML files using the HTTPService tag
• Toggling the current date highlighting on a DateChooser control in Flex
• Determining if a specific font is embedded in a Flex application
• Determining which fonts are embedded in a Flex application
• Embedding fonts in a Flex application using Embed metadata (redux)
• Setting the selected date in a DateChooser control in Flex
• Setting the horizontal scroll position in the HorizontalList control in Flex
• Creating a simple image gallery with the Flex Tree control
• Opening branches by clicking rows in a Tree control in Flex
• Using the ToolTipManager class to determine the current tool tip in a Flex application