Archive for the 'Flex Builder 3' Category
The San Diego Flash Users Group invited me to give a presentation on Flex Best Practices last night. Thanks to everyone who took the time to join the meeting. Thanks to Kyle and Chris for inviting me to present. Also thanks a lot to everyone who provided all the great feedback and questions. Dan made [...]
January 8th, 2009 | Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Cairngorm, Design Patterns, Flex, Flex 3 Skinning, Flex Best Practices, Flex Builder, Flex Builder 3, Flex Champion, General Development Notes, MXML, OOD, OOP, Software development process, UML, frameworks, mate, sdfug | 3 Comments
Following best practices during the development process can help organize and structure an application. Standardized development provides clarity, stability, longevity and scalability. I worked with several members of the Flex community and the Adobe Flex Team to create this article outlining over 90 best practices for the Flex development process. Thank you to everyone who [...]
December 13th, 2008 | Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Cairngorm, Design Patterns, Flash Platform, Flex, Flex Builder, Flex Builder 3, MXML, OOP, Software development process, UML | 1 Comment
Here is a new pocket guide for Flex 3.0 that somehow slipped past me. I haven’t seen this book mentioned anywhere. Things have been mega busy over the last few months so that could explain it. Three things I really like: Flex, O’Reilly and a pocket sized book. These pocket guides are great for reading [...]
June 22nd, 2008 | Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Flex, Flex Books, Flex Builder 3, MXML | 2 Comments
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 | 16 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
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 [...]
March 12th, 2008 | Posted in AS3 API, ActionScript 3.0, Bleeding Edge Flash, Flex, Flex Builder 3, General Development Notes, MXML | 4 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