Category Archives: Flex News
Let’s Meet – 360Flex Seattle
My fellow flex dude Larry and I will be in Seattle at the 360Flex event. Our company is actually sponsering the lanards for the event. I would happy to chat with anyone about the Open Xdrive API we just resently released. We use the Xdrive API to power our own Flex applications. We have several projects in [...]
Adobe on AIR Bus Tour Hits LA
Yesterday I spent the day in down town Los Angeles a the On Air Bus Tour. Adobe came to speak about the new Air Platform and provide information. It was surprising to see that there were as many JavaScript programmers interested in AIR as there were Flex developers. I guess its pretty cool to be [...]
Got a pesky Flex bug, need an fix?
There is a new wiki page called Flex and ActionScript Error Codes that catalogs compiler and run-time errors including the fixes for these bugs. I have been burned more than once by obscure bug errors that I just couldn’t track down in the documentation. Notice that error code 1009 is documented by mister himself. It feels like [...]
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Announcing AOL Xdrive Shows – Flex Application
I am finally able to talk about a project I have been working on since November when I took a new job at AOL Personal Media in Beverly Hills. Xdrive Shows is a sharing application that lets you take content stored on your AOL Xdrive account, such as music and photographs, and create a show that you can [...]
Picnik.com – Flex Photo Editor
Picnik is a new Flex application that allows you to upload edit, save, and create images. You can even use the built-in video capability of Flex to capture and edit web cam photos. Picnik displays a ton of cool photo editing tools from color correction and red-eye to cropping and rotation of images. One thing [...]
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Day 3 – 360Flex Conference
The keynote presented by Ted Patrick discussed two upcoming releases for Flex. The first release, named Moxie, will include the following: Enhanced DataGrid/Lists Design View Enhancements Cross-domain caching of the Flex framework and applications Tech also demonstrated a refactoring feature of the new Moxie release that allows you to update a function name by simply [...]
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Day 2 – 360Flex Conference
On the second day of the 360Flex conference, I attended some excellent presentations by Alex Harui, Ely Greenfield (Quietly Scheming) and the always entertaining Jesse Warden. The day started with a full discussion of Modules by Alex Harui. When I first heard about Modules in Flex at the Adobe Max 2006, I envisioned the ability to import modules [...]
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Day 1 – 360Flex Conference
First day at 360Flex Conference in San Jose. The most interesting presentation (besides the keynote) was given by Christian Canrtell, an Apollo Application Developer. Christian covered the Apollo APIs. The File System APIs will have several key features (that I was interested in): File object pointers to files and/or directories Ability to get the path to special [...]
Photos from FlexApps
Just a quick blurb about a new Flickr site that showcases Flex Applications. Photo sets include Components, Private Applications, and Demo applications. To get your own application showcased on Flickr, visit Ted Patrick’s post and follow the directions.
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Bluestring Flex application launches at Techcrunch40