While traversing through some potential typefaces for my brand the thought occurred to me to build this simple logo viewing application. While helping companies define their brands my lovely and talented wife often sends out multiple versions of logos using various typefaces to clients using PDF files. That is what jarred the idea for this [...]

RIA Watch is a pretty simple tool built with Flex Builder 3. It’s a simple concept, aggregate the current desktop RIA technologies. I had this idea at 4AM this morning thinking about what 2008 (and 9) will hold for the future of desktop based RIAs and what will happen to the faux-web-2.5-bubble we currently seem [...]

Another great Flex 3 Skinning experiment by Dolores Joya, 80s GUI “Flex Candy”. Dolores sent along some tips and information regarding the skinning process for Flex Builder 3. Great stuff!!
Check the finished experiment here.
Dolores Joya is a freelance Graphic/UI/Brand Designer located in San Diego CA. Get in touch with her here.
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I just finished reading Adobe Integrated Runtime for JavaScript Developers and would recommend it to anyone wanting to get a better grasp on Adobe AIR, including what its purpose is, and some background on its creation. The book also outlines what is currently supported in the Beta 1 release and what will be coming along [...]

Dolores Joya, a fantastic Graphic/UI/Brand Designer, took some time to explore skinning some of the Flex UI Controls which resulted in some really cool results. We’re planning on working on some Flex apps together soon and to prepare for that work Dolores made the leap into the world of Flex skinning. This example is a [...]

Here is a simplistic image viewing application named “Serrano” built with Flex Builder 3. One main plus for the app is the ability to view SWF’s in the users local system. The app was originally created in Flex Builder 2 and then ported to FB3. This is very much an alpha release or even a [...]