Flex 4 is certain to mold the future of RIA development. Building on the existing Halo theme the Flex Team has started to further refine the component model and architecture for Flex. Flex 4 has a strong focus on design. One primary goal is to allow designers and developers to collaborate in innovative and unseen [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Here is a draft version for the Flex 3 Cheatsheets. A number of MXML controls are detailed on this draft. For the first few Flex 3 Cheatsheets I am thinking about following this format for the rest of the commonly used MXML controls and containers. The properties, events and styles are taken directly from [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
We all remember the old school gabo site. Here is an AIR application Gabo Mendoza is developing. It looks pretty cool. From the homepage:
“Wouldn’t it be great if you could take pieces of your favorite web sites and put them on your desktop? Things like that auction you’ve got your eye on, your web mail’s [...]
