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Yahoo Releases ASTRA 1.1.1 for Flex and Flash

Posted by Simon
February 21, 2008

This are the features and issues resolved in ASTRA 1.1.1:
AlertManager (Flash)

Bug fix: Alert dialog lost focus if the user selected the text and then hit the tab key.

Charts (Flash)

Improved animation and invalidation of markers.
Bug fix: Setting axis maximum less than the value of an origin-based marker (column, bar) hides the marker.
Bug fix: With large data […]

The Amgen Tour of California Flex 2 application

Posted by Simon
February 19, 2007

RIA pedia has spotted a very nice Flex 2 application that uses Flex Data Services and Flash Media Server. The Tour Tracker 2.0 was built in 4 weeks which is very impressive considering the functionality of the application. The application contains the following features:

Full-screen capable live video stream of each stage from start to finish […]

Flex 2.0 ListCollectionView.filterFunction Example 1

Posted by Simon
May 15, 2006

My company Thoughtfaqtory is currently working on two big Flex 2.0 projects and both of them will need to filter out data in a list. In Flex 1.5 we had to create my own filter functions and one of those examples is in the MXNA Viewer i built a while back. You can filter by Title, Content and Feed […]

Actionscript 3 Libraries

Posted by Simon
February 28, 2006

When i read the article from Iterations::Two “FlexUnit released for Flex 2.0 and Actionscript 3.0″, the link to FlexUnit revealed a host of other AS3 libraries by Adobe Developer Relations.

CoreLib (The corelib project consists of several basic utilities for MD5 hashing, JSON serialization, advanced string and date parsing, and more)
FlexUnit (FlexUnit is a unit testing framework […]

MXNA Viewer Updated

Posted by Simon
December 6, 2005

Last week i posted about my MXNA Viewer built in Flex 1.5 using the Cairngorm Framework. I have uploaded a new version with more functionality.

Filter option has been added to allow users to filter posts
Drag and Drop now works
A preloader screen (above) has been added to give more feedback to the user on the […]

POP3 Socket Example using Flex 2

Posted by Simon
November 17, 2005

Above is a Flex 2 example talking to a POP3 server using flash.net.Socket. You can download the SWF file from here (updated for Beta 2). As Darron Schall noted using FlashVNC the same applies here. Due to Flash Player security restrictions in connecting to remote addresses, you have to run the .swf file from your local file […]

Guy Watson’s - Actionscript 3 (New Capabilities)

Posted by Simon
October 18, 2005

Guy Watson aka FlashGuru has written a cool article on the some of the new capabilities of Actionscript 3.
Read Article

Apple iPod Shuffle

Posted by Simon
January 11, 2005

Apple today launched the new iPod Shuffle which comes in two models, the pocket-size 512MB or 1G models starting at $99. You can read more about the iPod shuffle here.

Barber’s Pole has moved

Posted by Simon
October 5, 2004

I have decided to move Barber’s Pole to a new hosting company and domain. When i get the chance i will upgrade the design but this will have to do for now. At least i can post stuff up here easier now. More entries will be added soon so be sure to back and visit.

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