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Using the BlurFilter in Flex 1.5 from Jesse Warden

  • Posted by Simon
  • January 24, 2006

I read Jesse Wardens posts on “How to Use the BlurFilter in Flex 1.5” and thought i would implement the BlurFilter into my MXNA Viewer built in Flex 1.5. To see it in action you must either open the preferences or report title window which in turn blurs the background.

ServiceBrowser with Fluorine

  • Posted by Simon
  • January 22, 2006

I have been playing around with Flourine over the weekend and i must say it is looking really nice. They also have a cool feature called a service browser which allows you to view your services that are available in your local assembly cache, WSDL description files in your web application directory and the stub […]

Open Source .NET Flash Remoting Gateway

  • Posted by Simon
  • January 21, 2006

FLUORINE is an open source .NET Flash Remoting Gateway. It allows you to call ASP.NET pages, web services and .NET assemblies from Flash. Also available is class mappings which allow you to map an ActionScript class to a .NET class.

Clarifying the Term “Flex” by Christian Cantrell

  • Posted by Simon
  • January 20, 2006

Christian Cantrell has a very interesting article on what the term “Flex” means. Christian noted that there is still some confusion around the term “Flex” and his article clarifies everything.

Flex 2 Digg Application

  • Posted by Simon
  • January 13, 2006

This is a basic Flex 2 Digg application i built to allow my employees and I to read the latest technology news. Users can search Digg, drag and drop favourite stories plus it builds up a search history too.The application uses some of the new features Flex 2 has to offer. I am going to upload […]