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Why use base classes?

Andrew Trice
December 22, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (2)

I was recently asked what was the point of using base classes for creating custom components, instead of just putting everything in a single class instance? Well, there are several reasons that this is beneficial. Here are just a few.

tags:
flex
oop

Tracking AIR Usage With a Custom User Agent

Andrew Trice
December 11, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (4)

Here's another handy AIR tip that goes hand-in-hand with my previous tip on accessing application descriptors. Did you know that you can customize the user-agent setting for your AIR applications?

tags:
air
tip

Making Components Work Together

Andrew Trice
December 4, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (5)

This post is for anyone who has found themselves in the situation where they have an existing Flash component that they can't embed in their Flash/Flex application, although they still want/need to use them together.

tags:
api
google
map

Google Earth + Google Earth API on Mac

Andrew Trice
December 4, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Lots of news today, First JavaFX, now Google. Google Earth, and the Google Earth browser API are now supported on Macs.

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3d
api
earth
google

JavaFX Officially Released

Andrew Trice
December 4, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (11)

Sun has moved JavaFX into a production release. You can either download NetBeans preconfigured with everything you need to get started, the JavaFX production suite, which enables workflow between designers and developers, of just the JavaFX SDK.

tags:
javafx
ria

Google Maps for AIR

Andrew Trice
November 18, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Great news! Google announced today at MAX that the Google Maps API for Flash now supports AIR.

tags:
air
google
map

I'm Constantly Impressed By RIAs

Andrew Trice
November 4, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (2)

Although I'm up to my neck in RIA every day, I'm still impressed by some of the things that people are able to do with RIAs and the internet. Here are a few examples that really grabbed my attention this evening.

tags:
3d
flash
map
ria

Flex Gets Advanced CSS

Andrew Trice
October 30, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)

I'm surprised this hasn't already made it to insideria.com yet... last week, Adobe published an updated design spec for CSS in the Flex framework.

tags:
css
Flex
gumbo

LCDS Capacity Planning White Paper

Andrew Trice
October 22, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Adobe has released a white paper on LCDS capacity planning, based on benchmarks by Adobe engineering. If you have to estimate server load or data throughput for LCDS-based real-time messaging systems, you'll find this extremely helpful in planning your architecture.

Microsoft Silverlight 2 Released

Andrew Trice
October 14, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Microsoft Silverlight 2 has been officially released. You can download the latest at http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/.

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FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 5: Mate, the Pure MXML Framework
Tony Hillerson

Let’s get this out of the way first thing. It’s Mah-tay, not M-eight. Like the drink, the creators of Mate, Nahuel Faronda and Laura Arguello, come from Argentina. If you’ve never tried Mate (the drink), you should - it’s tasty.... Continue Reading
FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 4: IoC With Swiz
Tony Hillerson

With a name like Swiz, it has to be good, right? Welcome back, friends, to part four of our ongoing effort to understand these four Flex frameworks. This time we’re going to look at Swiz, a relative newcomer, created by... Continue Reading
FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 3: Framework Agnostic Views with PureMVC
Tony Hillerson

Last week we took a look at how to clean up our Twitter client by using Cairngorm to separate the concerns according to the time honored MVC architectural pattern. Now we’re going to see how it feels to work with... Continue Reading
The Design of a Rich Spatial Flex Viewer for GeoWeb 2.0
Moxie Zhang

Despite all the movement toward Web 2.0, GeoWeb is still in the Web 1.0 age. In the quest to establish the Geospatial Web or GeoWeb 2.0, a rich spatial Flex Viewer has been created, and it’s free. All source code... Continue Reading