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Another article on Digg about Flex

Posted by Simon
February 26, 2007

An interesting article i found on digg called “Why i don’t get Flex”.

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 […]

Here Comes Adobe Apollo - TalkCrunch

Posted by Simon
December 16, 2006

Michael Arrington and Steve Gillmor recently spoke to Adobe senior vice president and chief software architect Kevin Lynch about the upcoming release of the Apollo platform.
What is Apollo?
Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, […]

Easy Custom Charts - Ely Greenfield

Posted by Simon
December 5, 2006

Ely Greenfield of the Adobe Flex SDK team has a very interesting article about “Easy Custom Charts”. There is a cool example that allows you to add comments to each column in a column chart.
Check out the examples here.

Flex 2 Form container with defaultButton

Posted by Simon
November 28, 2006

In Flex 2 you use the defaultButton property of a container to define a default Button control within a container. Pressing the Enter key while focus is on any control activates the Button control as if it was explicitly selected.
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Flex and ActionScript Developers

Posted by Simon
November 21, 2006

My company ThoughtFaqtory is currently looking for Flex developers to join our team. Our company focuses on developing Rich Internet Applications using Flex. We are also looking for anyone with a Java or .NET background that is willing to learn Flex. The Flex community is very small or even non existent in Cape Town so […]

Flex Search Alpha 1 - Ted Patrick

Posted by Simon
November 15, 2006

When i was at MAX 2006 in Las Vegas last month Ted showcased the Flex Search at MAXUP. The demo he showed did not have the Flex interface in place but rather just an HTML demo with results dumped in a grid using ColdFusion. I was very interested in the project because it allows the […]

It’s Showtime - The iTunes Store is being updated

Posted by Simon
September 12, 2006

About 10 minutes ago i opened up iTunes and i got a black screen saying “It’s Showtime - The iTunes Store is being updated”. Today will most likely be the launch of the much anticipated iTunes Movie Store.

ASDoc, the Flex and AS3 Documentation Tool is now available

Posted by Simon
August 14, 2006

ASDoc, the Flex and AS3 documentation tool, is now available on labs. ASDoc is a command-line tool that is used to create HTML documentation from AS and MXML files. The HTML output looks similar to the Flex 2 Language Reference.

Flash Player 9 Universal Binary for Intel-based Macs

Posted by Simon
August 11, 2006

Adobe have officially released version 9,0,20,0 of Flash Player 9 Universal Binary for the Intel-based Macs.
[From Emmy Huang’s Blog]
Fixed in 9.0.20.0:
One bug that seems to be affecting many users is an issue with sound playback from Flash Player. This is fixed in 9.0.20.0 but you can also work around it. The issue is a result […]

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