Archive for the 'Adobe AIR' Category
The Flex and AS3 ecosystem is exploding. The demand for individuals who know these technologies is at an all time high. I currently get about 5 people per day that are seeking developers who know this stuff. Over the past year the demand has only increased. More and more kats are jumping into Flex/AS3 dev [...]
May 24th, 2008 | Posted in 3D, AS3 API, ActionScript 3.0, Adobe AIR, Bleeding Edge Flash, Cairngorm, Flex, Flex Builder 3 | 13 Comments
Erin Fife from Adobe got in touch recently about some pretty cool Flex and Flash development opportunities that are currently available at Adobe. Flex and Flash developers are encouraged to get in contact with Erin directly to speak about potential employment with Adobe. (efife@adobe.com or 408-536-5382)
Here is a bit more information from Erin about [...]
April 7th, 2008 | Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Adobe AIR, Bleeding Edge Flash, Flex, Flex Builder 3, Flex Jobs | 2 Comments
Dolores Joya sent over a link to her blog with a couple of new Flex 3 experiments today. In her research she was able to develop some pretty cool transitions using the Flex Effects classes. The source code is included with her sample, just do the right click boogie for the source.
The other area she [...]
March 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Adobe AIR, Bleeding Edge Flash, Flash CS3, Flex, Flex 3 Skinning, Flex Builder 3, Flex Skinning Lab | No Comments
I checked out the SDFUG meeting last night over at the Veoh offices here in SD. Really great group of guys. Kyle Tyacke headed up the festivities. We saw a cool video from Kevin Lynch about AIR and also watched videos about Parleys, DigiMix, eBay Desktop and some other AIR apps. A free copy of [...]
March 6th, 2008 | Posted in Adobe AIR, Flex Builder 3, sdfug | No Comments
As previously mentioned the “Developing AIR Applications with Adobe Flex 3” online manual is really a great place to get information for many of the aspects of AIR development using Flex 3.0. This example was created using the code and information available on this page.
There are three classes available to monitor network connectivity for Adobe [...]
March 4th, 2008 | Posted in AS3 API, ActionScript 3.0, Adobe AIR, Bleeding Edge Flash, Flex Builder 3 | 8 Comments
First off thanks to everyone who stopped by to congratulate me on my new “Flex Champion” status. Second, thanks again to Suzanne Nguyen and everyone at Adobe for this awesome opportunity. I am truly honored. Third, congrats to my fellow Flex Champions Chad Udell and David Flatley.
Now, on to the free Flex books!!!
Congrats to Anand [...]
February 5th, 2008 | Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Adobe AIR, Flex, Flex 3 Skinning, Flex Books, Flex Builder, Flex Builder 3, Flex Champion | 5 Comments
Ted Patrick recently visited San Diego and gave a presentation for the upcoming release of Flex Builder 3.0 and AIR 1.0. One thing that
stood out was the slideshow that Ted used during his presentation. One important screen that jumped out at me was the Adobe AIR Application Stack. The 6 Adobe AIR APIs in this [...]
January 28th, 2008 | Posted in AS3 API, ActionScript 3.0, Adobe AIR, Bleeding Edge Flash, Flex API Example, Flex Builder 3, MXML | 6 Comments
2007 was an AWESOME year for Flex and AIR. 2008 should continue this trend. Here are several different technologies and other items I plan on monitoring going into 2008. Some of these are bleeding edge, others are fundamentals which we’ve been studying for years.
“I’m sure that Flex skills will be one of the hottest skills [...]
December 21st, 2007 | Posted in AS3 API, ActionScript 3.0, Adobe AIR, Bleeding Edge Flash, Cairngorm, Design Patterns, Flash Platform, Flex, Flex 3 Skinning, Flex API Example, Flex Builder, Flex Builder 3, General Development Notes, OOD, OOP, Software development process, UML | 12 Comments
The Adobe Flex job market has been doing very well over the past 10 months or so. See the chart below for some aggregated calculations from hotgigs.com for hourly Flex rates. I am not sure where they are getting these numbers but this does seem to be inline with what’s going on in the industry. [...]
November 30th, 2007 | Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Adobe AIR, Flex, Flex Consulting, Flex Contracting, Flex Jobs | 15 Comments
Announcing “kannopy - AIR Application Development and Consulting”. This exciting new company will focus on application development using the Adobe Integrated Runtime. kannopy should be officially open for business sometime in early 2008. In addition to pure AIR app dev kannopy will also offer high end experience and UI design for Flex and AIR applications. [...]
October 24th, 2007 | Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Adobe AIR, Apollo, Bleeding Edge Flash, Flex, Flex 3 Skinning, Flex Builder, Flex Builder 3, General Development Notes | 1 Comment