Archive for the 'Flash Platform' Category

42 tech items for Flex Developers to research, study and watch in 2008

2007 was an AWESOME year for Flex and AIR. 2008 should continue this trend. Here are several different technologies and other items I plan on monitoring going into 2008. Some of these are bleeding edge, others are fundamentals which we’ve been studying for years.
“I’m sure that Flex skills will be one of the hottest [...]

ActionScript 3.0 UML and Code Generation Tools

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 [...]

Flex ActionScript 3.0 Odeo API Example with Live typing reflection

Delving deeper into the ActionScript 3.0 API research I present the Odeo API Example. Full source available. Use of TileList with drop-in ItemRenderer. Parallels for animation and the search text field has a real time “web 2.0″ reflection. A little bit of Flash CS3 to Flex communication going on here too.
This application should probably be [...]

Check out “Snippage” AIR App by: Gabocorp (Gabo Mendoza)

We all remember the old school gabo site. Here is an AIR application Gabo Mendoza is developing. It looks pretty cool. From the homepage:
“Wouldn’t it be great if you could take pieces of your favorite web sites and put them on your desktop? Things like that auction you’ve got your eye on, your web [...]

Flash CS3 and Flex 2 communication using ActionScript 3.0

Here is an example that demonstrates how to control the timeline of an SWF that was published with Flash CS3 from AS3 code in a Flex project. The Flash CS3 based SWF is set to publish for Flash Player 9 and uses ActionScript 3.0. The SWF is loaded into Flex using a SWFLoader control. Once [...]

Recap: Kevin Lynch Flashforward Boston Interview

A few items mentioned that caught my attention:
Astro
Microformats
RIA
Take advantage of the local system with AIR
Buzzword
Picnik
Thanks Aral and Kevin, this was a great interview, and thanks for the info!!
Kevin Lynch Flashforward Boston Interview
http://aralbalkan.com/1034
Kevin also mentioned technorati.com. I am adding my blog to technorati with this post.
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