Flex Archive

  • TWiT Live Desktop 2.2 goes open source

    TWiT Live Desktop 2.2 goes open source

    It took me a long time to finally get round to it, but have updated the TWiT Live Desktop AIR application and released it as version 2.2. I’ve also gone ahead and made it open source under an MIT license, so feel free to check...

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  • Cool Stuff I Didn't Make

    Cool Stuff I Didn’t Make

    Flash on the Beach is always one of the absolute conference highlights of the year, and believe it or not its only 5 weeks away — can’t wait to be in Brighton again! This year I’ll be talking about cool stuff I didn’t make, and...

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  • RIA meets Desktop – Adobe DevSummit Chennai

    RIA meets Desktop – Adobe DevSummit Chennai

    Earlier this week I headed to the Adobe DevSummit event in Chennai and was pleasantly surprised of how vibrant the community here is. No less than 600 people turned up and the rooms were absolutely packed. We had some great talks and hands-on sessions by...

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  • FlashCamp San Francisco video

    FlashCamp San Francisco video

    Sometimes I really wish I worked over in San Francisco — now and again Adobe does these great meet ups, like recently happened with FlashCamp. They’ve put the video of the presentations online including a keynote by CTO Kevin Lynch and the following topics: Introduction...

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  • Google updates Flash content indexing

    Google updates Flash content indexing

    It seems Google did an update to how it indexes Flash content yesterday. Some of you might have already heard about the headless Flash Player aka “Ichabod” that Google and Yahoo got from Adobe — it seems it is now being put to better use....

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  • HelloWorld CFC – integrating with Flex

    HelloWorld CFC – integrating with Flex

    I promised to blog about my adventures exploring what ColdFusion has to offer, and ColdFusion Components (CFC’s) was one of the first things I tried. I’ve got to admit its still a little uncomfortable writing non-interface related markup in tags, though of course you can...

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  • SOTR09 London – ColdFusion is dead, or is it?

    SOTR09 London – ColdFusion is dead, or is it?

    Scotch on the Rocks went on the road this year, and I was happy to do a presentation yesterday at their London event. In many ways this was a new type of session for me — not in the least because most of my audience...

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  • Fx prefix in Gumbo revisited

    Fx prefix in Gumbo revisited

    Aral Balkan blogged about what he called an epic FAIL of removing the Fx prefix from Gumbo. This I admit came as a bit of a surprise to me as it has been widely discussed in the community for some time and strong consensus built...

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  • Creative Programming in ActionScript 3.0

    Creative Programming in ActionScript 3.0

    I just finished my “Creative Programming in ActionScript 3.0″ session at day 1 of Multi-Mania 2009. Really enjoyed doing this new presentation though from the looks of it seemed I had more of a designer audience — so might have been a little code heavy....

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  • Flex Builder gets rebranded to Flash Builder

    Flex Builder gets rebranded to Flash Builder

    Something had to be done about confusing Flash Platform product names and if you paid close attention you could see this one coming for a while now. From the upcoming release onwards Flex Builder will be known as Flash Builder. I initially had some reservations...

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