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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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