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October 8, 2009

Adobe MAX 2009 sessions posted on Adobe TV

I 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:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 11:06 AM | | Comments (0)

October 4, 2009

I now own all four halo colors

The 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.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 9:23 PM | | Comments (0)

Adobe Flash Builder 4 beta 2 now available!

I 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:

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 Adobe Flex Cookbook (which has a growing number of Flex 4 beta posts). And finally, please go check out the excellent Flex 4 Beta 2 documentation; Flex 4 Beta 2 documentation live.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 9:07 PM | | Comments (0)

September 30, 2009

BETA ActionScript 3.0 Reference for the Adobe Flash Platform released on help.adobe.com

I just "tweeted" this, but thought it warranted a nice little blog post as well.

The documentation team released a cool new version of the Adobe Flash Platform Language Reference (which includes all APIs from the following products: Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, Adobe AIR, LiveCycle Data Services, Adobe ColdFusion, Adobe Flex, and Adobe Flash Player -- as well as the Text Layout Framework (TLF) classes). And the great news is, you can filter content based on Runtimes (Adobe AIR and/or Flash Player) as well as by Product (Flex, Flash Authoring, LiveCycle, and/or ColdFusion).

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/beta/reference/actionscript/3/

For more information, check out the following blog posts by real live members of the Adobe Learning Resources team:
"Introducing the ActionScript 3.0 Reference for the Adobe Flash Platform " via Adobe Flash Platform Runtime Documentation Team blog
"One ActionScript Language Reference to rule them all" via FlashLit blog (Rob Dixon)

Posted by Peter deHaan at 12:07 PM | | Comments (0)

September 25, 2009

Adobe Cookbooks 2.0 site launched

I just saw over on the ADC (Adobe Developer Connection) blog that they've released an updated version of the Adobe Cookbooks online application (or if you're looking for the Adobe Flex Cookbook specifically, check out http://cookbooks.adobe.com/flex).

Also, head over to the Developer Connection site and read Ed Sullivan's exellent "Introducing Adobe Cookbooks 2.0" article.

Update: Wow, there are quite a few more Cookbooks than I expected:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 9:45 AM | | Comments (0)

September 3, 2009

Spark Primitive Text Changes (Flex 4.0.0.9948)

There was a recent SVN checkin last night (revision 9948) that may impact a few Flex 4 apps/skins out there... For a bit more background on the issue/decision, see the Spark Text Primitives Decision page on the Adobe Flex Open Source site. But for now, here's a quick quote:
To summarize the decisions we've made:
  1. Replace SimpleText with Label, a UIComponent version of the same component.
  2. Instead of extending GraphicElement, RichText will extend UIComponent (like Label will).
  3. All of the spark text components will move to spark.components.*, so there will be spark.components.Label, spark.components.RichText, and spark.components.RichEditableText.
  4. The base class for SimpleText and RichText, spark.primitives.supportClasses.TextGraphicElement, will now extend UIComponent (instead of GraphicElement) and be moved and renamed to spark.components.supportClasses.TextBase. All of our text skin parts will now be typed as TextBase instead of TextGraphicElement.
  5. For now, RichEditableText and RichText will co-exist. Performance numbers showed that it may be possible to collapse them, but we don't have the time right now to do this. We will revisit this later on, time permitting.

You can download new builds of Flext 4 SDK from here.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 10:14 AM | | Comments (0)

June 24, 2009

Flash Builder beta serial number extension site is now live

According to the Flex Team Blog, the Flash Builder 4 beta extension serial numbers are now available for all Flex Builder 3 customers through http://www.adobe.com/go/flashbuilderextension.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 3:47 PM | | Comments (0)

Nightly Flex 4 Language Reference ZIPs now available

For those "hardcore" Flex-thusiasts out there, this may very well make your day!
If you routinely download the latest Flex 4 Nightly SDK builds from http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+4, you'll be pleased to know that you can now download the language reference for the very same build!

Oh no you didn't!
OH YES, WE DID!!!1!

You can still browse the Flex 4 Language Reference at http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/gumbo/langref/, as well as the user docs at http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/gumbo/html/, but if you want to see the latest and greatest version of the language reference (with all the latest API changes -- http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Rename+List, I'm looking at YOU!), head over to http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+4 and download the Language Reference ZIP.

Yay!

Posted by Peter deHaan at 12:29 PM | | Comments (0)

June 19, 2009

Reminder: Upcoming Open Beta Meetings

Just a friendly reminder that we have some Flex Open Beta Meetings scheduled for early next week:

Open Beta Meeting for new and beginner Flex developers
When: MONDAY June 22nd at 10AM – 11AM PDT
Where: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/openbeta/ (Please enter the room as a ‘guest’ using your First and Last name)

Open Beta Meeting for intermediate and advanced Flex developers
When: TUESDAY June 23rd at 9:30AM – 10:30AM PDT
Where: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/openbeta/ (Please enter the room as a ‘guest’ using your First and Last name)

As always, note the timezone so you don't miss the meetings by 1-12 hours.

For more information see the Flex Team blog teh Upcoming Open Beta Meetings entry on the Flex Team blog.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 6:07 PM | | Comments (0)

Today in Open Source Flex SDK Commits (6/18)

Here are a few of the more interesting API changes in the beta Flex 4 SDK from Thursday:

For more information on the various PARB renames, see the master list at: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Rename+List.

Curious about what else is goin' on in the Wonderful World of Adobe Flex SDK Open Source-ness? Check out the Adobe Open Source Flex SDK Commits forum.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 10:38 AM | | Comments (0)

June 18, 2009

Today in Open Source Flex SDK Commits (6/17)

Here are a few of the more interesting API changes in the beta Flex 4 SDK from Wednesday:

For more information on the various PARB renames, see the master list at: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Rename+List.

Curious about what else is goin' on in the Wonderful World of Adobe Flex SDK Open Source-ness? Check out the Adobe Open Source Flex SDK Commits forum.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 9:51 AM | | Comments (0)

June 17, 2009

Today in Open Source Flex SDK Commits (6/16)

Continuing the trend started from Monday's post, "Today in Open Source Flex SDK Commits (6/15)", here are a few of the more interesting API changes in the Flex 4 SDK from Tuesday:

For more information on the various PARB renames, see the master list at: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Rename+List.

Curious about what else is goin' on in the Wonderful World of Adobe Flex SDK Open Source-ness? Check out the Adobe Open Source Flex SDK Commits forum.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 11:16 AM | | Comments (0)

June 15, 2009

Today in Open Source Flex SDK Commits (6/15)

A few big/interesting check-ins happening in the beta Flex 4 SDK today...

Curious about what else is goin' on in the Wonderful World of Adobe Flex SDK Open Source-ness? Check out the Adobe Open Source Flex SDK Commits forum.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 3:51 PM | | Comments (0)

June 11, 2009

BluePrint Flash Builder code example plugin available on Adobe Labs

[via The Blueprint Eclipse plug-in is live on Adobe Labs (for Flex Builder 3 and Flash Builder 4) on the Flex Doc Team blog]

So, "What is Blueprint", you may be asking yourself:

Blueprint is a plugin for Adobe Flex Builder 3 and Adobe Flash Builder 4 that allows users to query for Adobe Flex and Adobe Flash code examples found on the Web directly inside of the development environment. The purpose of this preview is to assess the level of community interest in this type of customized search interface for code examples.

Very cool indeed! For more information, check out the Flex Doc Team blog's entry over at http://blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/2009/06/the_blueprint_eclipse_plugin_i.html, or download Blueprint directly from Adobe Labs at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/blueprint/.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 12:35 PM | | Comments (0)

June 7, 2009

This Two Week's Top Posts (6/7)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flash Builder (formerly Flex Builder), Adobe AIR, Flash Player, Flash Authoring, Text Layout Framework (TLF), LiveCycle, and Flash Media Server teams.

Flex 4 SDK, Flash Builder 4 (formerly Flex Builder), Flash Catalyst (formerly "Thermo") news:

General Flex, Flash Builder/Flex Builder stuff:

Conference stuff (360Flex, Adobe MAX, etc):

AIR stuff:

Flash Authoring and Flash Player stuff:

LiveCycle stuff:

Flash Media Stuff:

Other stuff:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 11:07 AM | | Comments (0)

May 17, 2009

This Week's Top Posts (5/17)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, Adobe AIR, Flash Player, Flash Authoring, Text Layout Framework (TLF), and LiveCycle teams.

Conference-type stuff:

Flex SDK-type stuff:

Flex Builder type stuff:

Adobe AIR type stuff:

LiveCycle/BlaseDS type stuff:

Flash Authoring, Flash Player, Text Layout Framework (TLF) type stuff:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 7:54 PM | | Comments (0)

March 31, 2009

Draft Flex Gumbo Chapters posted to Adobe open source site

Word on the street is that some beta chapters on new Flex Gumbo stuff is posted on the Flex Gumbo page on the opensource.adobe.com site:

And, as always, the latest beta Flex Gumbo Language Reference can be found at livedocs.adobe.com/flex/gumbo/langref/.

So put on your technical reviewer hats on and go read some chapters! Also, to keep up with all the latest and greatest from the Flex Documentation team, check out their blog at blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 10:13 AM | | Comments (0)

March 25, 2009

Updates to the Flex Gumbo page on opensource.adobe.com

A few updates to the Flex Gumbo page on opensource.adobe.com...

1. The milestones table has been updated to reflect the latest schedule.

MilestoneDate
BetaJune 2009
Final 4.0Q4 2009
4.1Q2 2010

* Dates subject to change

2. Open Iteration Meetings table updated with the slides and recordings from our first two public meetings (Feb. 19, 2009 and Mar. 24, 2009).

3. Two new feature specs posted:

4. Three new Architecture Review Board (ARB) Issues posted:

And as always, the latest build of the Flex Gumbo beta can be downloaded from: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+4.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 8:08 PM | | Comments (0)

March 14, 2009

This Two Weeks in Flex Examples (3/14)

Here is what I have been blogging about over the past couple weeks on my Flex examples blog, blog.flexexamples.com:

If you want to follow updates to FlexExamples.com (and my less frequent updates to ActionScriptExamples.com and AIRExamples.com), you can follow me on The Twitter at twitter.com/pdehaan.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 10:49 AM | | Comments (0)

This Month in Flex Examples (February 2009 Edition)

Here is what I have been blogging about over the past couple months on my Flex examples blog, blog.flexexamples.com:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 10:28 AM | | Comments (0)

This Month in Flex Examples (January 2009 Edition)

Here is what I have been blogging about over the past couple months on my Flex examples blog, blog.flexexamples.com:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 10:02 AM | | Comments (0)

This Week's Top Posts (3/14)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, AIR, and LiveCycle teams:

And some posts on Adobe MAX 2009 conference (Los Angeles CA - Oct 4-7 2009):

And from our friends on the Flash Authoring, and Flash Platform Evangelism teams:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 9:17 AM | | Comments (0)

March 3, 2009

New Flex Gumbo Architecture Review Board (ARB) Issues posted: Dropping the Fx Prefix

For those few people out there that were not fans of the Fx prefix in Flex Gumbo (SDK-17854 -- Kittens saved, Fx prefix will go away), you can now head on over to the Flex Gumbo page on opensource.adobe.com and check out the Architecture Review Board (ARB) Issues page on Dropping the Fx Prefix!

And for those of you who were fans of the Fx prefix... you can go read the ARB issues page too, because the Fx prefix is still being removed.

Thrilling topics of conversation include, but are not limited to:

Discuss (but on the ARB page, not here).

Posted by Peter deHaan at 6:23 PM |

Adobe Flex SDK 3.3 is now available

SDK and DMV downloads from Adobe.com: www.adobe.com/products/flex/flexdownloads/

Milestone Build on Open Source: opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+3

Release Notes for SDK 3.3 (including instructions for updating with DMV 3.3): www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flex/3/releasenotes_flex3_sdk.html

Posted by Peter deHaan at 10:23 AM | | Comments (5)

February 24, 2009

New Flex Gumbo Architecture Review Board (ARB) Issues posted: Group Scale Grid

Just a heads up, today we posted the "Group Scale Grid" ARB notes on the Gumbo page at opensource.adobe.com. Curious about what Group Scale Grid means? Me too!
The support for scale-9 resizing is confused between Flex SDK, FXG, and the CS tools, and needs to be resolved.

Flex current supports scale-9 only on embedded bitmaps, as it did in Flex 3. When a bitmap is embedded with scale-9 parameters, those parameters will be respected, regardless of whether the embedded asset is used as a display object inside a UIComponent, the source for an Image, or the source for a BitmapGraphic.

In case you missed the previous ARB notes, check out my earlier post, "Flex Gumbo Architecture Review Board (ARB) Issues posted to opensource.adobe.com site", or hit up the Flex Gumbo page on the opensource.adobe.com site.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 6:47 PM | | Comments (4)

This Week's Top Posts (2/24)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, AIR, Text Layout Framework (TLF), and LiveCycle teams (as well as a bonus tech note):

And from our friends on the Flash Authoring, Flash Player, and Flash Platform Evangelism teams:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 8:44 AM | | Comments (0)

February 10, 2009

Three new specs added to Gumbo Specs page

Three new specs have been added to the Flex SDK Gumbo page recently:

For those of you counting, that brings us up to a total of 30 specs posted.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 4:58 PM | | Comments (0)

Flex Gumbo Architecture Review Board (ARB) Issues posted to opensource.adobe.com site

In case you haven't seen the Flex Gumbo page lately on the opensource.adobe.com site, you can now find several pages of notes from the Architecture Review Board meetings. Currently the following documents are available:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 4:37 PM | | Comments (0)

February 6, 2009

Security testing tool for your Flex and Flash applications

I was flipping through some of my Flex blogs in Google Reader this morning when the following headline caught my eye: Beedigital -- Scan and test Adobe Flash and Flex applications for vulnerabilities. The blog post linked to an article at eWeek -- IBM Targets Adobe Flash Vulnerabilities with New Tool, which is definitely worth a quick read. Or, for more information, check out IBM's site for Rational AppScan Standard Edition (Windows only -- it seems).

Posted by Peter deHaan at 8:15 PM | | Comments (0)

This Week's Top Posts (2/6)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, AIR, and LiveCycle teams (as well as a bonus tech note):

And from our friends on the Flash Authoring, Flash Player, and Flash Platform Evangelism teams:

And today's "bonus link" comes to us today from Adobe's own Alan Musselman: Have you migrated from AS2 to AS3 yet?, which is a list of the top 8 Resources for learning ActionScript 3.0.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 7:15 PM | | Comments (0)

January 25, 2009

This Week's Top Posts (1/25)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, AIR, and LiveCycle teams:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 12:57 AM | | Comments (0)

January 5, 2009

This Few Weeks in Flex Examples (1/5)

Here is what I have been blogging about over the past few weeks on my Flex examples blog, blog.flexexamples.com:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 8:43 AM | | Comments (0)

December 22, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (12/22)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, AIR, and Text Layout Framework teams: And from our friends on the Flash Authoring, Flash Player, and Flash Platform Evangelism teams: Finally, a bunch of post-MAX Europe wrap-ups, and session notes/files:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 1:26 PM | | Comments (0)

December 7, 2008

This Week in Flex Developer Center and Adobe Developer Connection (12/7)

Here is a list of new entries posted by the Flex Developer Center and Developer Connection teams from the past couple of weeks:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 10:55 PM | | Comments (0)

This Two Weeks in Flex Examples (12/7)

Here is what I have been blogging about over the past couple weeks on my Flex examples blog, blog.flexexamples.com:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 3:08 PM | | Comments (0)

November 26, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (11/26)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, AIR, and Text Layout Framework teams:

And from our friends on the Flash Authoring, and Flash Platform Evangelism teams:

Finally, a bunch of post-MAX wrap-ups, and session notes/files:

November 21, 2008

This Four Weeks in Flex Examples (11/21)

Here is what I have been blogging about over the past month on my Flex examples blog, blog.flexexamples.com:

I have to say, the list of Flex Gumbo examples is growing quite nicely!

Posted by Peter deHaan at 9:10 PM | | Comments (0)

This Week's Top Posts (11/21)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, AIR, Text Layout Framework, Flash Player, and LCDS/BlazeDS teams:

And from our friends on the Flash Authoring, and Flash Platform Evangelism teams:

Finally, a bunch of post-MAX wrap-ups, session notes/files, and news on the upcoming RIA Hackathon hosted by Adobe India:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 8:40 PM | | Comments (0)

November 20, 2008

This Week in Flex Developer Center and Adobe Developer Connection (11/20)

Here is a list of new entries posted by the Flex Developer Center, Adobe Developer Connection, and Adobe Labs teams from the past couple of DAYS (yay Adobe MAX!):

Posted by Peter deHaan at 7:07 PM | | Comments (0)

November 17, 2008

Adobe releases Flex Builder 3.0.2 and Flex SDK 3.2

A new article by Adobe's own Matt Chotin was just posted to the Flex Developer Center, "Introducing Flex SDK 3.2 and Flex Builder 3.0.2".

You can download the Flex Builder update from here, or if you wish to manually initiate an update to Flex Builder using the Adobe Updater, open Flex Builder and go to Help > Search for Flex Builder Updates...

You can find the Flex Builder 3.0.2 updater for Windows and Mac at the Adobe Flex Support Center's Updaters page, or you can download the Flex Builder 3.0.2 Professional trial from http://www.adobe.com/go/flex_trial.

Also, curious about the next version of Flex Gumbo? Check out Ryan Stewart and Matt Chotin's article on the Flex Developer Center, "Flex 4 sneak peek video".

Happy Flexing!

Posted by Peter deHaan at 12:21 AM | | Comments (0)

November 16, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (11/16)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, AIR, and LCDS/BlazeDS teams:

A couple of Flex SDK/Flex Builder related Tech Notes:

And from our friends on the Flash Authoring, Flash Player, and Flash Platform Evangelism teams:

Today's bonus link comes to us from Robert Penner:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 7:24 PM | | Comments (0)

This Week in Flex Developer Center and Adobe Developer Connection (11/16)

Here is a list of new entries posted by the Flex Developer Center and Developer Connection teams from the past couple of weeks:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 7:23 PM | | Comments (0)

November 10, 2008

New Flex Gumbo language reference documentation posted on livedocs.adobe.com

I was just looking at the Flex Gumbo LiveDocs at http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/gumbo/langref/ and noticed they were updated recently!

If you're a fellow Gumbo-thusiast, check them out! And please, report any documentation issues you see at http://bugs.adobe.com/flex/. Documentation specific issues can be filed against the "Flex Documentation" product, whereas all Flex SDK specific issues can be filed against the "Flex SDK" product.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 4:01 PM | | Comments (0)

October 30, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (10/30)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, AIR, and LCDS/BlazeDS teams:

And from our friends on the Flash Authoring, Flash Player, and Flash Platform Evangelism teams:

Various posts on Adobe MAX 2008, RIA Hackathon in India, the past Flash 10 Camp in San Francisco, as well as some videos from the past 360Flex conference in San Jose:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 8:28 AM | | Comments (0)

October 29, 2008

This Week in Flex Developer Center and Adobe Developer Connection (10/29)

Here is a list of new entries posted by the Flex Developer Center and Developer Connection teams from the past week or so:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 8:15 PM | | Comments (0)

Three new specs added to Gumbo Specs page

Three new specs have been added to the Flex SDK Gumbo page recently: Arbitrary Type Interpolation, New Effects for Components and Graphics, and 3D Effects Support. That brings us up to a total of 24 specs!

Posted by Peter deHaan at 7:53 PM | | Comments (0)

October 26, 2008

CSS Advanced Selectors and Pixel Bender Integration specs added to Gumbo Specs page

Two new specs have been added to the Flex SDK Gumbo page recently: CSS Advanced Selectors and Pixel Bender Integration.

That brings us up to 20 specs. If you want to check out what's new in the next major release of the Flex SDK (codename: Gumbo), check out the following specs:

If you want to download a nightly build of the Flex Gumbo SDK, head over to the Download Flex 4 page on the opensource.adobe.com site (and remember to follow these instructions to get Flex Builder 3.0.x to compile against Flash Player 10). You can also find the latest Gumbo Language Reference at http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/gumbo/langref/.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 7:28 AM | | Comments (0)

October 24, 2008

Using Flex classes in Flash CS4

A coworker of mine on the Flash Authoring team, Tareq AlJaber, has an excellent blog at flashauthoring.blogspot.com where he explains how you can take advantage of some of the classes in the Flex.swc and use them in your Flash applications.

For more information, see the following posts:

As a long time Flex, Flash, and ColdFusion user I was very intruiged after reading Tareq's blog, and within minutes was using the Flex ObjectUtil class in Flash CS4 to trace out large objects and arrays, using the [Embed] metadata to embed PNGs and assets from library SWFs into Flash CS4 components, using the Flex HTTPService classes to load remote XML and text and display it in the Flash TextArea control, and creating custom label functions in Flash which used the Flex CurrencyFormatter class. The best part is that it was all very easy! Just point to the correct Flex SWCs, import the correct mx.* packages, and then start coding.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 7:04 AM | | Comments (2)

October 17, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (10/17)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, AIR, and LCDS/BlazeDS teams:

And from our friends on the Flash Authoring, Flash Player, and Flash Platform Evangelism teams:

Various posts on the past Flash 10 Camp in San Francisco, as well as some videos from the past 360Flex conference in San Jose:

Today's bonus link comes to us from Renaun Erickson, Flash/Flex Developer on "Pacifica" at Adobe:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 7:34 PM | | Comments (0)

October 11, 2008

This Week in Flex Examples (10/11)

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

Posted by Peter deHaan at 9:32 PM | | Comments (0)

This Week's Top Posts (10/11)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, AIR, and LCDS/BlazeDS teams:

And from our friends on the Flash Player, and Flash Platform Evangelism teams:

Various posts on the Flash 10 Camp going on Oct 11-12 in San Francisco, CA, as well as some videos from the past 360Flex conference in San Jose:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 9:26 PM | | Comments (0)

October 5, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (10/5)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, and LCDS/BlazeDS teams:

A couple of Flex SDK/Flex Builder related Tech Notes:

And from our friends on the Flash Player, Flash Authoring, and Flash Platform Evangelism teams:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 1:47 PM | | Comments (0)

This Four Weeks in Flex Examples (10/5)

It looks like I haven't posted an update in about four weeks, but here is what I have been blogging about on my Flex examples blog, blog.flexexamples.com:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 1:09 PM | | Comments (0)

October 3, 2008

Two-way Data Binding spec added to Gumbo Specs page

Another new spec has been posted to the Flex SDK Gumbo page: Two-way Data Binding.

For the full list of posted specs, check out the Gumbo Flex SDK homepage on opensource.adobe.com, or check out my post from yesterday: ASDoc in MXML spec added to Gumbo Specs page.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 4:37 PM | | Comments (0)

October 2, 2008

ASDoc in MXML spec added to Gumbo Specs page

Hooray! A new spec has been posted to the Flex SDK Gumbo page: ASDoc in MXML.

For those of you keeping score at home, that brings it up to 18 (EIGHTEEN!) public specs for your reading pleasure:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 7:07 PM | | Comments (0)

September 28, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (9/28)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, and LCDS/BlazeDS teams:

Various posts on upcoming conferences, as well as some videos from the past 360Flex conference in San Jose:

And from our good friends at the Adobe Developer Connection, and the Adobe Labs site:

And from our friends on the Flash Player, Flash Authoring, and Flash Platform Evangelism teams:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 2:03 PM | | Comments (0)

September 24, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (9/24)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, and LCDS/BlazeDS teams:

Various posts on the upcoming Adobe MAX (North America), as well as some videos from the past 360Flex conference in San Jose:

And from our good friends at the Adobe Flex Developer Center, Adobe Developer Connection, and the Adobe Labs site:

And from our friends on the Flash Player, Flash Authoring, and Flash Platform Evangelism teams:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 8:47 AM | | Comments (0)

September 9, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (9/9)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, and LCDS/BlazeDS teams:

Various posts on the upcoming Adobe MAX (North America) and mx:devsummit conferences, as well as some videos from the past 360Flex conference in San Jose:

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

And from our friends on the Flash Player, Flash Authoring, and Flash Platform Evangelism teams:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 7:09 AM | | Comments (0)

September 2, 2008

This Three Weeks in Flex Examples (9/2)

It looks like I haven't posted an update in about three weeks [again], but here is what I have been blogging about on my Flex examples blog, blog.flexexamples.com:

Notable posts this time include a few posts on the upcoming Flex Gumbo release, as well as some examples about the new additions to the FileReference class in Flash Player 10.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 8:17 PM | | Comments (0)

August 29, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (8/29)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, and LCDS/BlazeDS teams:

And from our good friends at the Adobe Developer Connection (as well as a couple Flex SDK and Flex Builder Tech Notes):

And from our friends on the Flash Player, Flash Authoring, and Flash Platform Evangelism teams:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 10:38 PM | | Comments (0)

August 22, 2008

New Gumbo Specs posted: Gumbo Text Primitives (TextBox, TextGraphic, and TextView)

For all you fellow Flex Gumbo followers out there, I just noticed that a new spec was posted yesterday (Aug 21st): Text Primitives.

And if you missed the previous posted Gumbo specs, check out the opensource.adobe.com Flex Gumbo homepage at http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Gumbo (which currently has 17 posted specs). Or, if you're anxious to try out Gumbo, check out the Gumbo LiveDocs as well as a few Gumbo examples at FlexExamples.com.

Happy Flexing!
Peter

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August 20, 2008

Adobe releases Flex Builder 3.0.1 and Flex SDK 3.1

According to an article on the Adobe Flex Developer center by uber Flex Product Manager, Matt Chotin, updates for Flex Builder and the Flex SDK 3.1 are now available: "Introducing Flex SDK 3.1 and Flex Builder 3.0.1".

If you wish to manually initiate an update to Flex Builder using the Adobe Updater, open Flex Builder and go to Help > Search for Flex Builder Updates...

For a complete list of bug fixes, check out SDK: Fixed Bugs in 3.1, 3.0.1 FBFixedBugs and DMV 3.0.1 Fixed Bugs.

Happy Flexing!

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August 18, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (8/18)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, and Adobe AIR teams:

And from our good friends at the Flex Developer Center and Adobe Developer Connection (as well as a few Flex Builder Tech Notes):

And from our friends on the Flash Player team:

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August 13, 2008

This Week's Top Posts Blogroll

Somebody recently asked me which Flex blogs I subscribed to for my "This Week's Top Posts" posts. So I spent a few minutes trolling through my Google Reader feeds and came up with this list. Enjoy.

Flex SDK/Flex Builder/LiveCycle/Etc.:

Flash Authoring/Flash Player:

Adobe Developer Connection, Flex Developer Center, Flex TechNotes, Flex Builder Tech Notes:

And remember, my "Top Posts" updates only include Adobe employee blogs. I still read and enjoy dozens of other blogs from various Flex developers. If you think I've omitted an Adobe Flex, AIR, Thermo, Flash Authoring, or Flash Player blog (by Adobe employees only), leave a comment and I'll update this list add the link to my Google Reader.

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August 12, 2008

New Gumbo Specs posted to opensource.adobe.com site

Word on the street is that some new specs have been posted to the Gumbo page on the opensource.adobe.com site, http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Gumbo.

So head on over and check out the new specs for Skinning & SkinnableComponent, Range, TrackBase, Slider, Spinner, and NumericStepper.

Plus, in case you missed them, there are also specs for the following features:

You can also check out the Language Reference for the Flex Gumbo SDK at http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/gumbo/langref/.

If you haven't already checked out the latest Gumbo build, you can download the SDK from the opensource.adobe.com site at http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+4. For instructions on downloading and installing the Gumbo SDK in Flex Builder 3, check out "Using the beta Gumbo SDK in Flex Builder 3" on FlexExamples.com. I also have a few Gumbo examples posted at http://blog.flexexamples.com/tag/gumbo/ which hopefully help you get started.

But wait, there's more!

If you do happen to find a bug in the Gumbo SDK, don't forget to fill out a bug report over to the public Flex bug base: http://bugs.adobe.com/flex/.

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August 10, 2008

This Three Weeks in Flex Examples (8/10)

It looks like I haven't posted an update in a few weeks, but here is what I have been blogging about on my Flex examples blog, blog.flexexamples.com:

In addition to a couple examples of using Yahoo! Maps and Google Maps in Flex projects, I also did a couple posts on using the beta Flex Gumbo SDK in Flex Builder 3.

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This Week's Top Posts (8/9)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, and Adobe AIR teams:

And from our friends on the Flash Player team:

And from our good friends at the Flex Developer Center and Adobe Developer Connection (as well as a few Flex Builder TechNotes):

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August 1, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (8/1)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, and Adobe AIR teams:

And from our friends on the Flash Player and Flash Authoring teams:

And from our good friends at the Flex Developer Center and Adobe Developer Connection (as well as a Flex Builder TechNote):

Posted by Peter deHaan at 7:19 PM | | Comments (0)

July 23, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (7/23)

Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, and Adobe AIR teams:

And from our friends on the Flash Player team:

And from our good friends at the Flex Developer Center and Adobe Developer Connection (as well as a couple Flex Builder TechNotes):

Posted by Peter deHaan at 7:02 PM | | Comments (1)

July 17, 2008

This Three Weeks in Flex Examples (7/17)

It looks like I haven't posted an update in a few weeks (again), but here's what I've been blogging about on my Flex examples blog, blog.flexexamples.com:

Or, if you want to check out what the rest of the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, Adobe AIR, Flash Player teams are saying, check out my This Week's Top Posts (7/14) post from a few days ago.

Posted by Peter deHaan at 7:29 AM | | Comments (0)

July 14, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (7/14)

It looks like I forgot my weekly post last week, so this week's update will be twice as big. Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, and Adobe AIR teams:

And from our friends on the Flash Player team:

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

Finally, today's bonus link comes to us from the Official Google Blog:

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July 1, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (7/1)

A collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, Adobe AIR, and Flash Player teams: And from our friends on the Flash Player team: And from our good friends at the Flex Developer Center and Developer Connection:

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June 23, 2008

This Three Weeks in Flex Examples (6/23)

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)".

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June 21, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (6/21)

A collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, and AIR teams: And from our fine friends on the Adobe Flex Developer Center: Today's bonus link comes to us from Clement Wong, former compiler engineering lead on the Flex SDK team:

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June 16, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (6/16)

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

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June 9, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (6/9)

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:

And from the fine folks on the Flash Player team:

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June 2, 2008

This Week in Flex Examples (6/2)

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".

Posted by Peter deHaan at 8:37 AM | | Comments (1)

This Week's Top Posts (6/2)

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

And from our friends on the Flash Player team:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 8:27 AM | | Comments (0)

May 25, 2008

This Week in Flex Examples (5/25)

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.

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May 23, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (5/23)

A sampling of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, and LiveCycle teams: And from the fine folks on the Flash Player team:

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May 16, 2008

Today's Top Posts (5/16)

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:

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

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

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

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).

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May 15, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (5/15)

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):

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

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

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April 27, 2008

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

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:

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This Week's Top Posts (4/27)

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:

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):

Posted by Peter deHaan at 10:18 AM | | Comments (0)

April 18, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (4/18)

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:

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

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

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April 15, 2008

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

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:

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April 11, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (4/11)

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:

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

Posted by Peter deHaan at 9:26 PM | | Comments (0)

April 7, 2008

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

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/.

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April 6, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (4/6)

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:

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

Posted by Peter deHaan at 7:51 AM | | Comments (0)

This Two Weeks in Flex Examples (4/6)

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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March 31, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (3/31)

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:

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March 24, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (3/24)

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:

Posted by Peter deHaan at 8:03 PM | | Comments (0)

This Week in Flex Examples (3/23)

A day later than usual, but here is a list of posts I managed to whip up over the past week over on my Flex examples blog, blog.flexexamples.com:

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March 17, 2008

This Week in Flex Examples (3/17)

I didn't have time to post this yesterday, but here is a quick update on all the new entries over at my other blog, Flex Examples, during the past 7 days:

No real trends this week, although there are a few entries on the ExternalInterface API and the Panel container.

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This Week's Top Posts (3/17)

Last week I did a post, This Week's Top Posts (3/9), on some excellent blog entries by various people on the Adobe Flex teams.

This week there seems to be a bunch more really good articles:

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March 9, 2008

This Week's Top Posts (3/9)

And now for something completely different...

Here are a bunch of the best [Flex-related] posts from around the Adobe water cooler over the past week (or so). Lots of really excellent posts, so if you have some time, check a few of them out.

Random:

Migrating from Flex 2 to Flex 3:

Reminder: If you're in NYC on April 18th, don't forget there will be a Flex Camp on Wall Street from 9am-5pm. Check it out!

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This Two-Weeks in Flex Examples (3/9)

Time for another "semi-regular" update on my other blog, blog.flexexamples.com. Here are all the posts I've published in the past couple weeks:

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March 7, 2008

Listening for an FLV file's metadata using the VideoDisplay control in Flex (Flex 3 edition)

The following example shows how you can use the metadataReceived event (MetadataEvent.METADATA_RECEIVED constant) to detect when the VideoDisplay has parsed the metadata from an FLV file in Flex 3.

Full code after the jump.

Continue reading "Listening for an FLV file's metadata using the VideoDisplay control in Flex (Flex 3 edition)" »

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Listening for an FLV file's metadata using the VideoDisplay control in Flex (Flex 2 edition)

The following example shows how you can use the internal MetadataEvent.METADATA constant to detect when the VideoDisplay has parsed the metadata from an FLV file in Flex 2.

Full code after the jump.

Continue reading "Listening for an FLV file's metadata using the VideoDisplay control in Flex (Flex 2 edition)" »

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March 1, 2008

Checking out the source code for the charting and AdvancedDataGrid controls in Flex 3

Here's another question I've seen come up a few times. "Q: Where can I find the source to the Flex Charting controls and/or the AdvancedDataGrid control?"

A: The charting controls and AdvancedDataGrid controls are only available within the Flex 3 Professional edition. In order to view the source code for these classes, you need to input your Flex 3 serial number, and then you should be able to find the source code in the following folder:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\sdks\3.0.0\fbpro\projects\datavisualization\src\

Happy Flexing!

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Installing the Flex Skin Design Extensions and Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3

I've seen a few people ask this question lately, "Q: Where can I find the latest version of the Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3?".

A: The Flex Component Kit (FCK) can now be found at http://www.adobe.com/go/flex3_cs3_swfkit.
In earlier Flex 3 betas, the FCK was included with the Flex SDK (see, "Installing the Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3" for more details on installing the component kit). In later SDK builds, we decided to remove the FCK from the SDK and post it separately online. Documentation for the FCK can be found at http://www.adobe.com/go/flex3_flexflashcomponents (PDF).

If you are an Fireworks CS3, Flash CS3, Illustrator CS3, and/or Photoshop CS3 user (or work with somebody who is), you'll also be pleased to know that you can find the Flex Skin Design Extensions at the same URL, http://www.adobe.com/go/flex3_cs3_swfkit. For more information on importing skins into Flex Builder, see http://www.adobe.com/go/flex3_skinning_doc (PDF_. Also, feel free to head over to blog.flexexamples.com and then check out my "Installing the Flex Skin Design Extensions for CS3 from Adobe Labs" entry (which is a bit out of date. but hopefully still somewhat relevant).

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February 28, 2008

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