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This Two-ish Weeks in Flex Examples (4/27)

Posted on April 27, 2008 by Peter deHaan | Comments (1)

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:

This Week’s Top Posts (4/27)

Posted on April 27, 2008 by Peter deHaan | Comments (0)

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

This Week’s Top Posts (4/18)

Posted on April 18, 2008 by Peter deHaan | Comments (0)

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

This Week-ish in Flex Examples (4/15)

Posted on April 15, 2008 by Peter deHaan | Comments (0)

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:

This Week’s Top Posts (4/11)

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Peter deHaan | Comments (0)

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

Adobe releases Flash Player 9,0,124,0

Posted on April 9, 2008 by Peter deHaan | Comments (4)

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 releases Adobe Media Player and Adobe TV

Posted on April 9, 2008 by Peter deHaan | Comments (0)

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/.

Boston Flex User Group’s first meeting Tues. April 8, 2008

Posted on April 7, 2008 by Peter deHaan | Comments (0)

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/.

This Week’s Top Posts (4/6)

Posted on April 6, 2008 by Peter deHaan | Comments (0)

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!

This Two Weeks in Flex Examples (4/6)

Posted on April 6, 2008 by Peter deHaan | Comments (1)

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:

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