Have you ever come across the situation where you just want to quickly put together a Flex-based interface with some text inside but don’t have a backend system in place yet? I certainly have. What I did to make my life easier is simply create an ExternalText class that extends mx.controls.Text. It allows you to read more
Some great news with the next edition of the 360|Flex conference coming to Europe, April 7-9th 2008. The venue is the StarHotels Business Palace in beautiful Milan, Italy. Regular ticket prices are 360 Euro and there are a maximum of 360 attendees, so make sure you can still grab a ticket before they’re sold out! read more
In case you didn’t pick this up with all the announcements Adobe made this last week — Adobe Media Player is now available on labs.adobe.com as a prerelease product along with beta 2 of the AIR runtime. Adobe already has some content providers lined up such as CBS, PBS, Yahoo! and services like blip.tv help read more
This was my first MAX conference and have to say that Ted and the team did an outstanding job! Its difficult to compare this to other conferences we know and love simply because of scale — if you think about the logistics of dealing with 4300 attendees that is pretty mind blowing. It was clear read more
If you thought the keynotes were exciting, wait until you hear what we got to see in the sneak peeks session. There was of course the disclaimer that technologies they demo may never make it as actual products, but what a lineup it was. I’m in the process of uploading video for most of the read more
The cat is finally out of the bag, we’ve heard lots of rumors about Thermo and in today’s keynote at Adobe MAX Chicago we saw it in action. Thermo is an amazing RIA design tool that does an exceptional job of moving from a design in Photoshop to a functional application in Flex, complete with read more
What can you do with 5 minutes and 20 slides automatically advancing every 15 seconds — more than you think! O’Reilly Ignite on day 0 of Adobe MAX Chicago was a blast, some really funny and sometimes thought-provoking presentations. You can get a glimpse of the event from the video below:
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