Flex & AIR

Flex best practices – Part 1: Setting up your Flex project

This is the first part of my series on using and applying best practices to your Flex development process. This article will focus on best...

1 replies - 14840 views - 03/11/09 by seantheflexguy in News

Quick Introduction to the Mate Framework for Flex

Although at work I have implemented Cairngorm as our preferred framework, for the personal projects that you see on my blog, I have my own framework of sorts....

0 replies - 2193 views - 02/20/09 by gladders in News

Adobe AIR - Using A Clipboard To Transfer Data

Drag-and-drop and copy-and-paste are very similar in nature. In both cases, the operation involves moving or copying data from one location to another. The...

0 replies - 3923 views - 01/28/09 by Schalk Neethling in News

Flex & PHP Tutorial - Transmitting data using JSON

To make sure we don't get too stuck in a rut with our tutorial posts I decided to branch out a little bit and talk about Adobe Flex 2.0. I recently spent a lot...

0 replies - 7527 views - 01/15/09 by Charlie Key in News

Adobe MAX Keynote Day 1

Adobe MAX this year had over 5,000 attendees. Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen spoke first. He focuses on what Adobe is calling the Flash Platform which now includes...

0 replies - 1195 views - 11/18/08 by Brian Rinaldi in News

Flex 3 : Dynamic Layouts With Repeaters

When you have a static number of items to display, presentation is easy. But what if this amount is dynamic? This is when the use of a Repeater can help. A...

0 replies - 17299 views - 11/12/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Understanding User-Input Validation In Flex 3

Conducting client-side validation is a key strength of Flex. From a usability point-of-view, you want your application to do as much prevalidation as possible....

0 replies - 6905 views - 11/03/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Testing Dynamic Web Applications

At RailsConf Europe, in the Q & A portion of my talk on Functional Testing someone asked what I recommend for testing Javascript.Ugh. Testing Javascript....

0 replies - 2943 views - 10/16/08 by Jay Fields in News

The Top 10 Things You Should Know About Flex

Flex is getting a lot of buzz lately. A lot of people may be interested in using it just because they’ve heard good things, but they aren’t really sure if...

29 replies - 11439 views - 09/29/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Flex HTTPService, Browser Cache and IE

Problem: Repeated HTTPService calls when made from Flex (running within an instance of the IE browser) many a times ends up with no external HTTP call. It...

0 replies - 3475 views - 08/02/08 by Shashank Tiwari in News