Peter deHaan

This Week's Top Posts (7/1)

2008-07-01T09:07:01Z

A collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, Adobe AIR, and Flash Player teams:

Pete's Blog (Peter Farland): Using AMF with flash.net.URLLoader
Kevin Hoyt: Monitoring Long-Running Transactions with Flex
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Flex & AIR Training: "For Those About to Code"
Codedependent (Chet Haase): MAX Out
Peter Ent: MAX North America Site is Up
Matt Chotin: MAX North America Experience Now Live!
Tom Jordahl's musings: CFUnited LiveCycle and ColdFusion session online
Flex Team blog: The Flex Show - Now With Video
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Searchable SWF
Ethan Malasky: Slides from my onAIR talk

And from our friends on the Flash Player team:

senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): San Flashcisco: 3D without an Engine
Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): SWF Searchability, the Right Way!

And from our good friends at the Flex Developer Center and Developer Connection:

Adobe Flex Developer Center (Bruce Eckel): ActionScript collections and functional programming
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Marco Casario): Flex solutions excerpt: Uploading files to the server
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Omar Gonzalez): AdvancED Flex Application Development excerpt: Working with video
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Sebastien Arbogast): The Flex, Spring and BlazeDS full stack – Part 2: Writing the to-do list server (The Flex, Spring, and BlazeDS full stack - Part 1: Creating a Flex module)
Adobe Developer Connection (Adobe): Enabling Web 2.0: Dojo, MooTools, YUI, and Spry
Adobe Developer Connection (Rich Shupe, Zevan Rosser): Learning ActionScript 3.0 excerpts: OOP overview, display list, and programmatic motion
Adobe Developer Connection (Paulo Caroli, Henrik Lindahl): Writing and running functional tests for Flash with Selenium RC
Adobe Developer Connection (William B Sanders): Learning Flash Media Server 3 excerpts: Nonpersistent shared objects and two-way A/V communications
Adobe Developer Connection (Nick Myers): Designing interactive products with Fireworks
Adobe Developer Connection (James Ward): Using the data management services in LiveCycle Data Services ES
Adobe Developer Connection (Ben Forta): Understanding LiveCycle Data Management Services
Adobe Developer Connection (Adobe): SWF searchability FAQ

This Three Weeks in Flex Examples (6/23)

2008-06-23T16:18:05Z

It seems like I haven't posted an update since June 2nd ("This Week in Flex Examples (6/2)"), but here's what I've been blogging about over the past few weeks on my Flex examples blog, blog.flexexamples.com:

Or, if you want to catch up on what my Adobe Flex teammates are blogging about over the past week, check out "This Week's Top Posts (6/21)".

This Week's Top Posts (6/21)

2008-06-21T16:34:26Z

A collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, and AIR teams:

Matt Chotin: Flex Compiler Design Document Now Available
Peter Ent: itemEditors - Part 3 (also see itemEditors - Part 1 and itemEditors - Part 2)
Matt Chotin: AIR Cookbook now in beta
Kevin Hoyt: Ethan Malasky on Security in Adobe AIR
Ethan Malasky: Quick, Cool Links
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Pulse of the Geek Nation
iamdeepa on flex (Deepa Subramaniam): I broke the build, I broke my face.
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): CF goes the Flex way - ColdFusion free for education
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Flex Engineer JIBJAB.com

And from our fine friends on the Adobe Flex Developer Center:

Adobe Flex Developer Center (Matt Chotin): Developing Flex applications for AIR 1.1
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Christian Cantrell): Building multilingual Flex applications on Adobe AIR
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Chet Haase): Creating drawing shapes for Top Drawer with ActionScript 3.0 – Part 3
Adobe Flex Developer Center (James Ward): Get up to speed on Flex messaging service

Today's bonus link comes to us from Clement Wong, former compiler engineering lead on the Flex SDK team:

Stop Coding! (Clement Wong): Configuring Flex Builder to use the HellFire compiler

This Week's Top Posts (6/16)

2008-06-16T16:47:14Z

A collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, and Flash Player teams:

Matt Chotin: Upcoming Flex 3.1 Feature: Marshall Plan
Alex's Flex Closet (Alex Harui): Flex 3.x Versioning and Portals
Pearls of Flex (Sreenivas Ramaswamy): CalculatedMeasures in Flex OLAP
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Video: Pulse
Flex Team Blog: Test Out The New Flex.org
Flex Team Blog: Stay Up To Date with RIA News
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Two Great Flex / Adobe AIR Articles
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Need a QuickFix? Try Google App Engine, Adobe AIR, and Flex
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): "Thermo" Screenshot Exclusive
much ado about something (Narciso (nj) Jaramillo): Snackr v0.35 TEST released: better non-Western language support
Kevin Hoyt: Flex, Masks and Collaboration
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Kevin Hoyt): Learn the advanced features of remoting with Flex
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Chet Haase): Creating drawing shapes for Top Drawer with ActionScript 3.0
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Greg Goralski, LordAlex Leon): Foundation Flex for Designers excerpt: Flex Builder and Flash
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Christophe Coenraets): Live help/call center application with Flex and BlazeDS
Flex TechNote: Watermarks appear when using Flex 2 Charting library with Flex Builder 3
Flex TechNote: Update to ILOG Elixir 1.0 Patch 1 (Flex)

This Week's Top Posts (6/9)

2008-06-09T16:49:54Z

Continuing my love of unordered lists, here is this week's list of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, and LiveCycle teams:

Codedependent (Chet Haase): Video: Top Drawer (Part I) and Video: Top Drawer (Parts II & III)
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Chet Haase): Developing a GUI for Top Drawer with Flex
Matt Chotin: Acrobat.com announced today
Matt Chotin: Flex 3 Cookbook Cookoff
Flex Team blog: Flex 3 Cookbook Cook-Off contest
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Amy Wong): Announcing the Flex Cookbook Cook Off contest
Peter Ent: itemEditors - Part Two (itemEditors - Part 1)
much ado about something (Narciso (nj) Jaramillo): Snackr is now open source! and Snackr v0.34 TEST build released
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): Specifying an endpoint for a RemoteObject destination at runtime
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): DARE Open Source
Flex Team blog: We've moved!
Flex Team blog: Nominate Flex for a SourceForge.net Community Award
Flex Doc Team blog: The Security Sandbox in Flex Builder 3
Flex Doc Team blog: Plugins for Ion search
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Sebastien Arbogast): The Flex, Spring, and BlazeDS full stack - Part 1: Creating a Flex module
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Marco Casario): Flex solutions excerpt: Migrating Flex applications on the desktop with Adobe AIR

And from the fine folks on the Flash Player team:

senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): senocular - the college years, now online

This Week in Flex Examples (6/2)

2008-06-02T16:37:44Z

Here's what I've been blogging about over the past week on my Flex examples blog, blog.flexexamples.com:

As always, if those aren't your "cup of tea", check out what the other people on the Flex, Flex Builder, and Flash Player teams are blogging about in a segment I like to call "This Week's Top Posts".

This Week's Top Posts (6/2)

2008-06-02T16:27:19Z

A collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, and Flash Player teams:

Codedependent (Chet Haase): Splinterview
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Filty Rich [Flex] Clients on June 3rd
prayank.mxml (Prayank Swaroop): Data synchronization patterns in Flex applications
Pearls of Flex (Sreenivas Ramaswamy): Object/Array and ObjectProxy/ArrayCollection binding problems
Pearls of Flex (Sreenivas Ramaswamy): Grouping XML data using GroupingCollection
Pearls of Flex (Sreenivas Ramaswamy): Here is a GroupingCollection with good performance !
Tom Jordahl's musings: MAX 2008 registration is now open
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: MAX 2008 - Full of Flex Goodness
Peter Ent: Registration Open for MAX 2008
Peter Ent: itemEditors - Part 1
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): The Adobe walled garden of knowledge
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): CURL BenchMarketing
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): YSlow Tuning onFlex.org - F(31) to B(81) in an hour
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Native Image Encoding API's - BitmapData to ByteArray (PNG,JPG)
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Julian Payne, and Christophe Jolif): ILOG Elixir: Your remedy for vibrant data visualization

And from our friends on the Flash Player team:

Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Peer to Peer (P2P) in Flash Player 10 beta
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Soundbooth - all CS4, all now on Labs
Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Flash Player Mac Uninstaller on Adobe Labs
Penguin.SWF (Mike Melanson): Flash Uses The GPU

Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Soundbooth betas released on Adobe Labs

2008-05-27T16:44:50Z

Rumor has it that we've released beta copies of the upcoming versions of Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Soundbooth over on the Adobe Labs site.

Adobe Dreamweaver beta -- New features help teams and individual developers alike reach the next level in performance and functionality. (More)
Adobe Fireworks beta -- Create, edit, and optimize web graphics more accurately and faster than ever with the enhanced toolset. (More)
Adobe Soundbooth beta -- New tools for video editors, designers, and others who need to accomplish their everyday audio work. (More)

For more information, see "New Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Soundbooth Betas Released on Labs" on the official Adobe Labs blog.

Flash Player 10 Peer to Peer (P2P) FAQ

2008-05-26T05:14:30Z

Justin Everett-Church (Sr. Product Manager for Adobe Flash Player), posted an excellent FAQ for Peer to Peer communication in the Flash Player 10 beta, "Peer to Peer (P2P) in Flash Player 10 beta".

Head on over and find out the answers to the following:

Does Flash Player 10 beta support Peer to Peer (P2P) communication?
How will I make a P2P connection through Flash Player 10 beta?
What can I send through the P2P connection?
How does the peer connection work?
Can I choose between UDP and TCP?
Will RTMFP enable massive file-sharing applications through Flash Player 10 beta?
Can I get started with RTMFP now?

This Week in Flex Examples (5/25)

2008-05-26T05:02:42Z

Blah, blah, blah, list of posts from the past week from my Flex examples blog, blog.flexexamples.com:

It seems everything has been very heavily weighted on the Flex NumericStepper control this past week. So if the NumericStepper isn't your "thing", check out what some of the other Adobe Flex bloggers have been blogging about over the past week: This Week's Top Posts.

This Week's Top Posts (5/23)

2008-05-23T16:45:14Z

A sampling of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, and LiveCycle teams:

Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): No news is good news!
much ado about something (Narciso (nj) Jaramillo): Snackr: Randomness goes viral
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Google Maps Flash API - Distributed components/services
iamdeepa on flex (Deepa Subramaniam): Where have I been?
Tom Jordahl's musings: Offline sync sample application
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): ILOG Elixir - OEM Licensing Changes!!!
Kevin Hoyt: Data Push with CFTHREAD and LiveCycle DS
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): FlexJobs hits 1000 subscribers
Matt Chotin: Create Flash Player 10 (Astro) content with the Flex SDK
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): Adobe AIR vs Microsoft Silverlight
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Mauricio Pacheco): Using Oracle EPG to provide XML services for Adobe Flex applications

And from the fine folks on the Flash Player team:

kaourantin.net (Tinic Uro): Adobe Pixel Bender in Flash Player 10 Beta
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Flash Player 10: Language Reference (API Documentation)

Today's Top Posts (5/16)

2008-05-17T07:17:36Z

Ah, seems like just yesterday I posted This Week's Top Posts (5/15). Here we are, 24 hours later and there have been several excellent posts by the fine folks on the Flex, Flex Builder, and Flash Player teams. So, if you're looking for some good weekend reading, here you go:

James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Where is 64-bit Linux support for Flash Player?
Flex Team blog: Flex Cookbook - new book & updated site
Flex Butterflies and Bugs (Joan Lafferty): Why don't my deprecated styles work in Flex 3
much ado about something (Narciso (nj) Jaramillo): Snackr on twitter; new test version for non-Western languages and Snackr v0.33 released!

Not to be outdone, the Flash Player team blogged the following in the past twenty-four hours:

senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Flash Player 10: New Drawing API Features Explained
Francis Cheng: ECMAScript 4 Object Initializers and Type Annotations
Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): RTMFP in Flash Player 10 beta
kaourantin.net (Tinic Uro): What does GPU acceleration mean?

Today's bonus link comes to us from Clement Wong, former compiler engineering lead on the Flex SDK team:

Stop Coding! (Clement Wong): The Flex Compiler API... RPC Style!

This Two-point-five Weeks in Flex Examples (5/16)

2008-05-17T07:07:27Z

Sorry, I've been neglecting these updates lately, but here is a list of posts from the past couple weeks from my Flex examples blog, blog.flexexamples.com:

Finished reading all those entries already? Check out what some other people on the Flex/Flex Builder/Flash Player teams are saying, "This Week's Top Posts (5/15)".

Also, don't forget to check out the new Adobe Flash Player 10 beta (codename: Astro).

Adobe releases Flash Player 10 beta (codename: Astro) on Labs

2008-05-15T21:34:54Z

In case you haven't heard the news, the Flash Player team released a beta version of Flash Player 10 on the Adobe Labs site today: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Astro

For more information, see the Flash Player 10 technology page at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/

Key New Features:

3D Effects
Custom Filters and Effects
Advanced Text Layout
Enhanced Drawing API
Visual Performance Improvements

You can download the Flash Player 10/Astro beta from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html.

This Week's Top Posts (5/15)

2008-05-15T16:47:15Z

Behold! A list of blog posts from the various Flex SDK, and Flex Builder blogs that I've been reading over the past week (or so):

Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Feed Me - Feeds.adobe.com Launches
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): MXN aka Adobe Feeds and other News!
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Flex 4 - Enhanced States
Rob Adams's User Eccentric: A Pattern Library for Information Design
FLEXing My Muscle (Raghu Rao): Are you a Flex Developer? Want to work for Adobe in Bangalore?
James Ward - RIA Cowboy: Rich-Client Misconceptions & Adobe's Open Screen Project
Ted On Flex (Ted Patrick): Next Dreamweaver - A killer app for HTML/JS/AJAX
david zuckerman/adobe: Can you spot the new Flex Builder 4 features?
getting and setting -- Scott Evans: accessor methods, actionscript, and you*
Tom Jordahl's musings: New blog on FlexBuilder 4 features
Codedependent (Chet Haase): Properties: A Matter of Privacy
much ado about something (Narciso (nj) Jaramillo): Snackr, an RSS ticker built using AIR and Flex, Snackr is everywhere!
Rob Adams's User Eccentric: Snackr: Don't Read Blogs, Snack On Them!
Buntel Blog (Tim Buntel): Profiler Improvements
Pearls of Flex (Sreenivas Ramaswamy): Fixing itemRenderer memory leak in AdvancedDataGrid on columns change
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Christophe Coenraets): Collaborative data entry with Flex and BlazeDS
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Sunil Bannur): Flex data visualization
Adobe Flex Developer Center (Serge Jespers): Using Flash media components to play video in Flex projects

Plus, here are a few interesting posts from the Flash Player from the past week:

Justin's Flash Blog (Justin Everett-Church): Flash Player 10 beta ("Astro") goes public
kaourantin.net (Tinic Uro): Adobe Is Making Some Noise Part 1, Adobe Is Making Some Noise Part 2, and Adobe Is Making Some Noise Part 3
Penguin.SWF (Mike Melanson): Astro Beta
senocular.com (Trevor McCauley): Flash Player 10 Astro Beta: TEST TEST TEST

* - Scott Evans (www.gettingandsetting.com) is a new lead developer on the Adobe Flex Builder team.