Apr 26th, 2011
Convincing developers that Adobe Flex rocks on Android, iOS, and PlayBook
On April 11th, Adobe announced that Creative Suite 5.5 will ship within 30 days. Among the long list of amazing new capabilities and features across all of the CS5.5 products is something that really stands out to us developers — Flash Builder 4.5. This is a monumental release of Flash Builder because when this ships [...]
Mar 8th, 2011
Molehill on your lunch break – take a 30 min tour
Earlier this week, I set aside some time to check out some of the many amazing demos of Molehill, Adobe’s 3D APIs for Flash Player and AIR. Whether you love Flash or not, this is something that you need to check out. Here’s a “guided path” to make your next 30 minutes something fun: Install [...]
Feb 23rd, 2011
Imagine this new 3D Flash technology applied to enterprise
Earlier today, the guys at Flare3D posted an amazing video on YouTube showing off their upcoming game that will take advantage of the soon to be released Flash 3D features (code name Molehill). Take a look at the video below (43 seconds long): I suggest viewing this full-screen. Did you notice that it’s also multiplayer? [...]
Sep 8th, 2010
Adding real-time data visualization to your ColdFusion apps
One of my favorite things to do with Adobe Flex is build applications that show real-time data. In this blog post, I will share what I’ve learned in the past few months about using ColdFusion as a source of real-time data and Flex combined with Google Maps API for Flash as a means of visualizing [...]
Jul 26th, 2010
CFUnited Session: Adding real-time data visualization to your application or website
On Friday, I’m presenting a session at CFUnited titled, “Adding real-time data visualization to your application or website“. In this session, I’m going to demonstrate how to take data from your web site or application and turn it into a real-time data feed that can be used to feed a dashboard that will impress [...]
Jun 18th, 2010
Tour de Flex 2.0 – AIR and Flex Component and API Explorer Launched!
We just posted Tour de Flex 2.0. If you already have a previous version of Tour de Flex, it should auto-update to 2.0. This latest version has several bug fixes and now requires AIR 2.0 to support many new AIR 2.0 samples. Go grab it and check out the new samples in the [...]
May 26th, 2010
Fun with AIR on Android – Geolocation
There are a lot of things that make building apps for mobile devices extremely fun and addictive. I’ve especially had fun with the onboard GPS in my Google Nexus One using ActionScript (flash.sensors.Geolocation class). It’s actually very simple. Here’s a trivial example: I’m currently playing around with a mobile app that polls my location every [...]
May 18th, 2010
New IBM ILOG Elixir Data Visualization samples in Tour de Flex
We just posted some new IBM ILOG Elixir 3.0 samples in Tour de Flex under the Data Visualization category. Here are some highlights: Supports Flex SDK 4.0 & Flash Builder 4.0 New: Diagram components (Spark) New: Timeline component (Spark) Improved: Gantt chart components Many new features including tasks item renderers coded in FXG, printing, re-designed [...]
Mar 25th, 2010
The new Flex.org
On Monday, March 22, 2010 we launch Adobe Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4. We also launched a brand new Flex.org. Those of you familiar with Flex.org will notice a substantial difference! Be sure to check out the new Flex showcase (click “What’s Possible“). Every time we add an application to the showcase, we tweet [...]
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