Archive for November, 2007
The Adobe Flex job market has been doing very well over the past 10 months or so. See the chart below for some aggregated calculations from hotgigs.com for hourly Flex rates. I am not sure where they are getting these numbers but this does seem to be inline with what’s going on in the industry. [...]
November 30th, 2007 | Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Adobe AIR, Flex, Flex Consulting, Flex Contracting, Flex Jobs | 13 Comments
Compositing images in Photoshop just got more exiting with the release of Photoshop CS3 Extended. “Extended†indicates a special version of Photoshop with added features such as 3D and Video layer support in Photoshop documents. In this tutorial, we are going to concentrate on the 3D layer feature now offered in Adobe’s CS3 product suite.
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November 29th, 2007 | Posted in 3D, Photoshop CS3 | No Comments
If you are interested in generating UML and/or AS3 code you might want to take a look at the following tools. The price tags range from $0 to $239.
Cairngen - Free
http://www.ericfeminella.com/blog/cairngen
This tool provides AS3 code generation for Cairngorm based Flex projects. You’ll need to have Ant installed and know how to run and modify [...]
November 20th, 2007 | Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Cairngorm, Flash Platform, Flex, Flex Builder, Flex Builder 3, OOD, OOP, UML | 4 Comments
Here is a cool tip from Programming Flex 2. This code is from a Flex 3 project. I believe the syntax is the same for both versions of Flex. Notice that the repeatCount attribute in the Sequence component definition is set to 0. This will repeat the Effect until you call the end() method on [...]
November 8th, 2007 | Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Flex, Flex Builder, Flex Builder 3, MXML | No Comments