Back in July I had the awesome opportunity to do a presentation for the FlexMania Brazil conference on getting started with Arduino and AS3/Flex communication. I got the link to the recorded presentation and decided I’d share it with everyone. I was going to give this presentation at the UK based try { harder } conference happening in [...]

Here’s a really cool new API that can be used for AS3 and/or Flex development if  you are working with mongoDB. The really awesome thing about using mongoDB and AS3/Flex is that you don’t need a middleware language to work with the database. The API was created by Omar Gonzales, you may know him on [...]

I’ll be giving a presentation on TDD for the Bloomington/Normal, IL Rich Internet Applications Group on May 25th at 6:30PM (Central time). It will be broadcast via Adobe Connect so you watch it from anywhere. It will also be recorded for playback at a later point in time. Here’s more info about the presentation: This [...]

One of the most useful sessions I attended at 360Flex was Rob Rusher’s session on localization of Flex applications. All the sessions were great but this one applied directly to a project I’m working on. In the session Rob gave an overview of the BabelFX framework and explained how to get it set up and [...]

Here’s a new AS3/Flex project I’ve been working on that uses brainwave data to control an LED on an Arduino microcontroller. The brainwave data is captured with a Mindset BCI, sent into an AIR application and then sent to an Arduino Duemilanove. It uses the AS3 API I created for interfacing Flash/Flex projects to the [...]

**11/04/10 – UPDATE** The API is unavailable right now due to domain issues with Kannopy. If you’d like a copy of the source code or documentation please send me an email and I’ll try to get it over to you ASAP. Sorry for the trouble. Read and process data from your brain in ActionScript 3.0 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Delving deeper into the ActionScript 3.0 API research I present the Odeo API Example. Full source available. Use of TileList with drop-in ItemRenderer. Parallels for animation and the search text field has a real time “web 2.0″ reflection. A little bit of Flash CS3 to Flex communication going on here too. This application should probably [...]