As part of our preparation for polishing our Adobe Flex skills Mark Myers has suggested a Blog Tag – where we set each other an Adobe Flex technical challenge in which we have 2 weeks to write a blog explaining how to solve it.
Here is my first challenge to Mark.
Your challenge is to create [...]
Frameworks – particularly micro AS3 frameworks for Flex seem to be in vogue, but why? What do they offer? Other than adding what looks like making your apps more complex.
If your a Lotus Notes / Domino developer I am sure you have come across the classic tactical application which has grown over time to [...]
Here is the presentation I gave at LCTY Manchester – its done using the prezi application which I highly recommend.
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Lotus Notes & Adobe Flex on Prezi
I use Firefox and firebug to help debug Adobe Flex applications – firebug is a lot cheaper than paying for the advanced version of Flash Builder for the network monitor.
The problem is in the latest version of Firefox they introduced process isolation for plugins – this just causes any flex app to freeze when I [...]
If you can make it to the LCTY Manchester on the 13th May I will be giving a presentation on integrating Adobe Flex and IBM Lotus Notes.
I will be covering:
Why Flex & Notes – the business case / the geek case?
Building Notes 8 Sidebar widgets.
Leveraging Notes Security.
Best practices for exposing Notes data and business logic [...]
The next version of the excellent interface components produced by ILOG, now owned by IBM, for Adobe Flex is available as a Beta here.
You can tell its now an IBM product as the name has gone from ILOG Elixir to IBM ILOG Elixir Enterprise 3.0
Features:
Supports Flex SDK 4.0 & Flash Builder 4.0
New: Diagram [...]
Do you think a Flex app on a Google Nexus phone might be slow?
Think again.
Jake has been work hard on building some excellent Flex components which play nice with Domino.
One issue he has hit is with a bug in the Flash Player which means for non IE browsers session authentication is not sent with the fileupload HTTP Post. This means currently only anonymous individuals can upload attachments on non [...]
Unobtrusive notifications are all the rage now in web apps (check out Google Chromes method for asking to remember passwords). Rather than have an alert dialog which forces the user to lose context and actually click something to clear it, its sometimes better to have a notification which clears itself after a short amount of [...]
Looks like Adobe has not waited for Apple to allow the Flash plugin on the iPhone.
This page describes a new feature in CS5 Flash Professional which allows any Flash game / application to be targeted at the iPhone. NB Its actually created as a native application and published through the app store.
In conjunction with a [...]