Adobe Evangelist Serge Jespers has a great overview of the Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 on his site. He walks the user through the process of creating a Flex component from the FLVPlayback component in Flash CS3. I agree with Serge that the component kit has a lot of power - and [...]
Many people have asked that I make the Cairngorm Series downloadable (the video portions). Since I have gotten a handful of requests this week - I determined to go ahead and post the links:
UPDATE: Many people didn’t realize that there are written tutorials and exercise files that go along with each tutorial. You [...]
I just completed a series of two articles at InsideRIA.com where I interviewed Avi Muchnick of the Aviary team. In the first article, I go over my interview, and in the second article, I actually walk you through Phoenix (Aviary’s raster image editor) and Peacock (Aviary’s pattern generator). The other cool thing: [...]
Adobe has now released AIR 1.0 and Flex 3.0. AIR specifically has been years in the making, and it’s impact will be huge. Many of the companies that haven’t yet jumped onto the AIR bandwagon due to its Beta status are now going to begin development. From what I hear we are [...]
I am sitting in Caribou Coffee a bit north of Atlanta getting ready for 360Flex, and I was reading through some blog posts, and I spotted this one on why Blist chose Flash/Flex/ActionScript. Great read for anyone developing in Flex/Flash/AS3 as well as those who don’t.
Why blist Chose Flex and Flash
A bit of discussion has developed from my previous article, Moock on ActionScript 4 about features that people would like to see in future versions of ActionScript. Obviously at the top of the list (mentioned by Dave) we have Threads. Does anyone have other things you want to see in the next versions [...]
Colin Moock is presenting details of ECMAScript 4 at FITC. He has posted some of his lecture notes regarding changes (that will probably be present in ActionScript 4 as well). These changes include:
Adobe and O’Reilly have teamed up to create one of the premiere sites for RIA news and information, InsideRIA.com. I am honored to be one of the experts at InsideRIA. I am a part of an amazing team with Raymond Camden, Rich Tretola, Andre Charland, Tony MacDonell, Gabor Vida, Jonathan Snook, and Andrew [...]
Adobe released two specific items today that will have a huge impact on remoting. First, Adobe released the AMF 3.0 specification (PDF). Second, Adobe released BlazeDS which allows for distribution of real-time data through remoting. BlazeDS was previously a part of Livecycle Data Services, but has now been released under the LGPL [...]
In Part 4 you saw the full Service to Worker pattern demonstrated. However, the method discussed in the last tutorial doesn’t fit every situation. In this tutorial you will learn a few “best-practices” for Cairngorm projects as well as an extension to the Service to Worker pattern for more complex cases.
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