Archive for the 'Flash Platform' Category
FlashScope is a brand new online marketplace to buy and sell flash components. They have flash files of any type and any sophistication you may need. Over the next couple weeks I’ll be helping FlashScope with a product giveaway. I’m going to ask Flash/Flex/AIR/AS3 questions on twitter and the first person to email me with [...]
May 16th, 2010 | Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Contest, Flash Platform, Giveaway | No Comments
“FlashMoto is a new kind of Flash CMS (Content Management System), a mix between editing and building. There are no limits in animation and design, as any website design element can be easily edited via convenient control panel.”
Tatiana from Flash Moto got in touch recently to show me thier latest revision of the Flash Moto [...]
May 15th, 2010 | Posted in CMS, Flash Platform, review | 1 Comment
I’ll be presenting at the Denver Flex User’s Group on July 15th on RobotLegs. In addition I should also be presenting via Adobe Connect for the Nashville Flash Platform User Group in May. Here is some additional information about the presentation.
RobotLegs is an IoC framework that’s been rising on the Flex framework scene. It’s a [...]
March 20th, 2010 | Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Aspect Oriented Programming, Bleeding Edge Flash, Design Patterns, Flash Platform, Flex, Flex Best Practices, Flex Presentations, Flex Training, Inversion Of Control, OOP, Software development process | No Comments
Here’s the second episode of seantheflexguyTV! In this episode I talk about the upcoming Flash and the City conference in NYC. I also cover some of the new features and capabilities of AIR 2.0 and do a quick review of the Flex 3 with Java book. This episode should be a little more organized and [...]
February 9th, 2010 | Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Bleeding Edge Flash, Flash Platform, Flash Platform Community, Flex, Flex Books, Flex Builder, Flex Conferences, General Development Notes, MXML, OOP, seantheflexguyTV | 2 Comments
Just a quick post to share this interview I had the opportunity to do for FlashScope. Here’s a snipped from the interview: Sean ‘the flex guy’ Moore is a highly visible blogger in the Flash Platform Community. He has been developing web applications for 12 years now and it’s no surprise that he was chosen [...]
February 1st, 2010 | Posted in Flash Platform, Flash Platform Community, Flex, Flex Champion, Interviews | 1 Comment
Here’s the first episode of seantheflexguyTV! I’ll talk about several new Flex related tools and some software development books. I’d like to thank Jesse Warden for the inspiration and the nudge to get seantheflexguyTV started. More specifically in this episode I talk a little about: RobotLegs, Parsley, FlexPMD, RIATest, Hello Flex 4, Clean Code, 97 [...]
January 30th, 2010 | Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Bleeding Edge Flash, Flash Builder, Flash Platform, Flash Platform Community, Flex, Flex 4, Flex Best Practices, Flex Books, Flex Builder, Flex Builder 3, General Development Notes, Inversion Of Control, Software development process, frameworks, seantheflexguyTV | 12 Comments
Taking a look at everyone’s “2009 In Review” blog posts is really great inspiration. Looking back over the last year is always worth taking a minute to do. It’s great to reflect on personal growth over the course of a year and take note of our accomplishments. I decided to recall the last year for [...]
January 1st, 2010 | Posted in AS3 API, ActionScript 3.0, Adobe AIR, Bleeding Edge Flash, Cairngorm, Design Patterns, Flash Platform, Flash Platform Community, Flex, Flex 4, Flex Best Practices, Flex Books, Flex Builder 3, Flex Consulting, Flex Contracting, Gumbo, Inversion Of Control, Java, OOD, OOP, Software development process, frameworks, sdfug | 2 Comments
Read and process data from your brain in ActionScript 3.0 with this open source API that I’ve created. You’ll need the Mindset hardware to utilize the full power of the API but you can run the ThinkGear Connector in “demo” mode and it will send simulated brain data to your app.
I’ve been interested in Brain [...]
December 30th, 2009 | Posted in AS3 API, ActionScript 3.0, Bleeding Edge Flash, Flash Platform, Flex, Flex API Example | 19 Comments
Using an API can save time during the development process. The wonderful thing about the Flash Platform Community has always been the willingness to share. Here’s 34 more ActionScript 3.0 APIs that can be used for Flex, Flash and AIR development. Hopefully one of the APIs listed here or in one of my previous API [...]
December 19th, 2009 | Posted in AS3 API, ActionScript 3.0, Bleeding Edge Flash, Flash Platform, Flex, Flex API Example, Inversion Of Control, OOP, frameworks | 3 Comments
Interested in Design Patterns? Check out this article on InsideRIA that explains the Decorator Design Pattern. This article explains the Open Closed Principal and discusses favoring composition over inheritance. These are very powerful OOP concepts that can be leveraged to produce more flexible and robust code. The Decorator is a great pattern to learn after [...]
November 1st, 2009 | Posted in Design Patterns, Flash Platform, Flex, Flex Best Practices, OOD, OOP, Software development process | No Comments