Mar 25th, 2010
Flex 4 documentation is now available in six languages! English – http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/Flex_4.0/ (download full doc zip from here) French – http://help.adobe.com/fr_FR/AS3LCR/Flex_4.0/ (download full doc zip from here) German – http://help.adobe.com/de_DE/AS3LCR/Flex_4.0/ (download full doc zip from here) Russian – http://help.adobe.com/ru_RU/AS3LCR/Flex_4.0/ (download full doc zip from here) Japanese – http://help.adobe.com/ja_JP/AS3LCR/Flex_4.0/ (download full doc zip from here) Chinese [...]
Mar 25th, 2010
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 [...]
Feb 25th, 2010
Michael Schroeder from yWorks has added a sample to Tour de Flex to showcase their yFiles FLEX diagram editor featuring server-side calculation of automatic graph layouts. Check it out! You’ll find the new sample under “Other Components”. Click here to go directly to this sample in the web version of Tour de Flex.
Feb 2nd, 2010
The Flex 3.5 SDK broke the ApplicationUpdaterUI, a commonly used component for enabling auto-update in AIR apps as described in my earlier blog post. Today, the Flex SDK team post version 3.5a that addresses this bug. Here are the notes from QA on the bug: The Flex team has updated the 3.5 SDK with a [...]
Feb 1st, 2010
When you hear the term “data visualization”, you probably immediately think of pie charts, bar charts, and line charts showing sales data, population data, or other historical data. These charts and graphs help us to visualize the data, detect key trends, and make decisions moving forward. While charts are great for understanding historical data, real-time [...]
Jan 29th, 2010
Adobe is looking for a talented and highly motivated Architect or Technical lead to help deliver the next generation presentation services (composite RIA, Mashups and client architecture). A successful candidate will have a proven track record as a client side architect on enterprise applications and RIA frameworks. We are looking for bright, motivated individuals to [...]
Jan 27th, 2010
Jonathan Campos wrote two samples that demonstrate the netflex-as3-api project, an ActionScript 3 utility library to simplify the Netflix API for ActionScript 3 based applications. You’ll find two samples under “Cloud APIs” in Tour de Flex.
Dec 14th, 2009
I was recently able to take advantage of Adobe AIR’s HTML capabilities to blend server-fed HTML/JS content with rich local SWF/JPG/PNG content using a simple technique that I thought worthy of blogging. I recently blogged about a project that I’ve been involved with called ChessJam, an AIR app for playing online chess. We recently added [...]
Nov 11th, 2009
Early this morning, I added 29 new samples in Tour de Flex that were provided by MapQuest to show off their new APIs. There are some really cool new capabilities so check them out! MapQuest is hosting a webinar on November 18th at 11AM EST and December 2nd at 11AM EST. To sign up, go [...]