Chuck FreedmanThe Great Framework Debate: We all have it! Which framework to use in your Flex project and why. We’ll find out at 360Flex D.C. starting September 19. Register Now! John Wilker, organizer extraordinaire of 360 Flex, has given me the honor of moderating a new panel to the general audience called “The Great Framework Debate”. [...]
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Flex Example: Populating Value Objects with web service XML
I am working on a little AIR application that stores data both locally (SQLlite) and on a web service (PHP/MySQL) that I’m building in parallel. When the app starts, it requests initial data to populate a pair of DataGrids in the AIR app. I’m sending a URLRequest against a URLLoader with simple params and getting [...]
Visualizing Stereo preview with Flash
I’m working on my demo code and presentations for several events this fall. Here is a little preview:
Adobe growth and success signs are everywhere
This past weekend while driving around, I was reminded that you can’t easily escape work. Over a 24 hour period, I encountered the following two Adobe/Flash scenes from behind the wheel – both indication that Adobe and Flash Platform are on the up and up: Apparently, someone has done very well for themselves designing intro [...]
Flex, what have you done to me?
I woke up in Flash Professional today and realized that developing with Flex so much the past few years has finally changed the way I code Flash Platform apps. For better or worse, working with the RIA framework known as Flex has changed my approach, practice and sense of virtual space as I develop applications. [...]
Wish I was going to 360Flex next week
At one point I was going. At one point I was speaking. Unfortunately, for me, I’m unable to do either this year. For the first time since the original 360Flex, I won’t be attending the event next week in Indy. And it just sucks for me. This event is the best, in my opinion, for [...]
Flex Example: E4X Binding Repeater inside Tile
I’m working on a Ribbit Directory demo app and started exploring data binding with E4X. Basically, I created a php service, anchored with a simple MySQL database, that serves up XML to the Flex app. I feel a little late to the game with E4X, but who cares. It rocks! I’ve meddled so much with [...]
getMicrophone() and the OPEN MIC initiative
It was a sunny winter day in Mountain View, CA. The season actually felt like early autumn to my New England-conditioned senses. Lee Brimelow showed up at the Ribbit offices, via an open invitation lingering almost 8 months, to do a video interview with us on Ribbit’s API for Flash and Flex. Lee ran [...]
Going under Flash and Flex, Ribbit to release RESTful API
Internally, much of the company has been chanting “we are going beyond Flash and Flex”, but I don’t think the word ‘beyond’ is right to say. Maybe ‘to the side’. Definitely not ‘over’. Probably not ‘in a tangent’. However I can get myself to say it, Ribbit is about to offer the global developer community [...]
Flex and Flash developer community challenge
So earlier today I posted a community challenge on the Ribbit blog. The idea was to throw some interesting use cases at the community and see what everyone can come up with. Ribbit is such a simple yet interactive service, there are a lot of different ways to apply various fundamentals of Flash Platform development. [...]
