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In this post, we will walk through the steps to create an interactive chart with a Google-Finance-esque interaction. Before we get to far into the details, let's take a look at the final product. The top chart is a line chart showing a subset of data from the greater data set. The chart on the bottom is a representation of the entire data set. You can adjust the slider on the bottom to change the granularity and scope of the data represented in the top line chart.

Andrew Trice In this post, we will walk through the steps to create an interactive chart with a Google-Finance-esque interaction. Before we get to far into the details, let's take a look at the final product. The top chart is a line chart showing a subset of data from the greater data set. The chart on the bottom is a representation of the entire data set. You can adjust the slider on the bottom to change the granularity and scope of the data represented in the top line chart. tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.38346 2009-10-30T01:42:07Z 2009-10-30T02:08:58Z

I read today that a new version of Unity, a 3D Platform for the web, was released yesterday. It is full of new features, but most importantly, it is now free.

Andrew Trice I read today that a new version of Unity, a 3D Platform for the web, was released yesterday. It is full of new features, but most importantly, it is now free. tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.38274 2009-10-23T02:26:12Z 2009-10-23T03:18:37Z

I just happened to browse over to Adobe Labs, and stumbled across WorflowLab, a workflow planning and sharing tool for building applications. I found it interesting, and decided to share it here. Read on for more detail.

Andrew Trice I just happened to browse over to Adobe Labs, and stumbled across WorflowLab, a workflow planning and sharing tool for building applications. I found it interesting, and decided to share it here. Read on for more detail. tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.38178 2009-10-14T01:19:13Z 2009-10-16T20:06:19Z

One of the big announcements at MAX this year was Flash on devices. As the capabilities of devices change, so do the capabilities of the platforms we use to build our applications. One of the latest trends is Multi-touch. In this post, I'll try to shed some light on the upcoming multitouch capabilities in AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1.

Andrew Trice One of the big announcements at MAX this year was Flash on devices. As the capabilities of devices change, so do the capabilities of the platforms we use to build our applications. One of the latest trends is Multi-touch. In this post, I'll try to shed some light on the upcoming multitouch capabilities in AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1. tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.38019 2009-09-25T00:59:55Z 2009-09-25T01:27:58Z

In an interesting move Tuesday, Google released the "Chrome Frame", a plug-in that will allow you to run Google Chrome inside of Internet Explorer. This allows you to take advantage of HTML5 elements (including Canvas), and the V8 JavaScript engine, from within IE.

Andrew Trice In an interesting move Tuesday, Google released the "Chrome Frame", a plug-in that will allow you to run Google Chrome inside of Internet Explorer. This allows you to take advantage of HTML5 elements (including Canvas), and the V8 JavaScript engine, from within IE. tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.37990 2009-09-21T23:55:30Z 2009-09-28T15:37:29Z

Today, Adobe made the announcement of "Flash Platform Services", a suite a services that enable developers to easily create, scale, and monetize their applications. This includes 3 components: Distribution, Collaboration, and Social.

Andrew Trice Today, Adobe made the announcement of "Flash Platform Services", a suite a services that enable developers to easily create, scale, and monetize their applications. This includes 3 components: Distribution, Collaboration, and Social. tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.37925 2009-09-11T02:23:08Z 2009-09-17T15:07:59Z

In the spirit of tonight's first NFL game of the season, I decided to put together an example that integrates feeds from NFL.com and brings it directly to your desktop. This is a basic example that demonstrates how to use Flash Builder's data wizards to consume data from a public rss feed as a HTTPService.

Andrew Trice In the spirit of tonight's first NFL game of the season, I decided to put together an example that integrates feeds from NFL.com and brings it directly to your desktop. This is a basic example that demonstrates how to use Flash Builder's data wizards to consume data from a public rss feed as a HTTPService. tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.37864 2009-09-02T00:50:55Z 2009-09-02T14:43:14Z

We're going to keep this post lean and mean, and get down to business with 10 Tips that will keep your Flex applications fast, lean, and responsive. The tips are focused around three best practices rules. Rule # 1: Clean up after yourself -- In general, it is good practice to maintain clean code. Not only in the sense of having properly formatted and readable code, but also code that leaves nothing behind... no memory leaks, no cpu hogs, nothing but a clean object that can be reclaimed by the GC.

Andrew Trice We're going to keep this post lean and mean, and get down to business with 10 Tips that will keep your Flex applications fast, lean, and responsive. The tips are focused around three best practices rules. Rule # 1: Clean up after yourself -- In general, it is good practice to maintain clean code. Not only in the sense of having properly formatted and readable code, but also code that leaves nothing behind... no memory leaks, no cpu hogs, nothing but a clean object that can be reclaimed by the GC. tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.37817 2009-08-26T01:41:20Z 2009-09-02T02:35:56Z

If you ever build your own custom components that extend UIComponent, you'll no doubt run into this scenario... Even if you add event listeners for keyboard events, or if you override the keyDownHandler function, you may find that your keyboard events aren't being handled by your component instances. Setting focusEnabled, mouseFocusEnabled, or tabEnabled don't seem to do the trick either... Don't pull your hair out! It's an easy fix. Read on to see how.

Andrew Trice If you ever build your own custom components that extend UIComponent, you'll no doubt run into this scenario... Even if you add event listeners for keyboard events, or if you override the keyDownHandler function, you may find that your keyboard events aren't being handled by your component instances. Setting focusEnabled, mouseFocusEnabled, or tabEnabled don't seem to do the trick either... Don't pull your hair out! It's an easy fix. Read on to see how. tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.37723 2009-08-13T02:41:45Z 2009-08-13T03:11:25Z

One of the new components that I am a fan of in Flex 4 is the DataGroup. "Why?" you may wonder... Well, the DataGroup is essentially the "repeater done right" (not my words, but I'll repeat them). The DataGroup allows you to easily create sets of objects based on the contents of a collection (ArrayCollection, XMLListCollection, or any other ICollectionView implementation), and even support virtualized data layouts.

Andrew Trice One of the new components that I am a fan of in Flex 4 is the DataGroup. "Why?" you may wonder... Well, the DataGroup is essentially the "repeater done right" (not my words, but I'll repeat them). The DataGroup allows you to easily create sets of objects based on the contents of a collection (ArrayCollection, XMLListCollection, or any other ICollectionView implementation), and even support virtualized data layouts. tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.37685 2009-08-07T03:26:20Z 2009-08-07T04:03:27Z

I browsed over to Adobe Labs recently to see if there were any new Adobe projects that I may have missed, and stumbled across "Blueprint", a very helpful in-editor tool for searching Flex and AIR documentation and code examples online, which was released back in June. Read on to see more details, and a screen capture of it in action.

Andrew Trice I browsed over to Adobe Labs recently to see if there were any new Adobe projects that I may have missed, and stumbled across "Blueprint", a very helpful in-editor tool for searching Flex and AIR documentation and code examples online, which was released back in June. Read on to see more details, and a screen capture of it in action. tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.37629 2009-07-31T01:30:57Z 2009-07-31T15:16:02Z

No, this isn't my new perspective on using the Google Maps API. In fact, it's much more exciting. Google recently released a new addition to the Maps API for Flash, including 3D perspective, and a new control set that is reminiscent of the controls in Google Earth! Straight from Google: "With a perspective map, the map is projected on a viewport (the screen) using a virtual point of reference in front of the screen (the camera). These three components (the map, the viewport and the camera) form a perspective on the viewport which gives the illusion of depth perception to the map."

Andrew Trice No, this isn't my new perspective on using the Google Maps API. In fact, it's much more exciting. Google recently released a new addition to the Maps API for Flash, including 3D perspective, and a new control set that is reminiscent of the controls in Google Earth! Straight from Google: "With a perspective map, the map is projected on a viewport (the screen) using a virtual point of reference in front of the screen (the camera). These three components (the map, the viewport and the camera) form a perspective on the viewport which gives the illusion of depth perception to the map." tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.37570 2009-07-23T03:00:00Z 2009-07-23T02:31:38Z

There are a lot of new features in the ColdFusion 9 beta on that was recently released on Adobe Labs. One of the things that caught my attention is the ability to read and generate MS Office documents on the fly, including PowerPoint Presentation files. Read on to see a brief example showing how to generate PPT files using the ColdFusion 9 beta.

Andrew Trice There are a lot of new features in the ColdFusion 9 beta on that was recently released on Adobe Labs. One of the things that caught my attention is the ability to read and generate MS Office documents on the fly, including PowerPoint Presentation files. Read on to see a brief example showing how to generate PPT files using the ColdFusion 9 beta. tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.37527 2009-07-17T02:05:25Z 2009-07-17T02:55:05Z

In case you missed it earlier this week, Adobe has recently released ColdFusion 9 beta on Adobe Labs and ColdFusion Builder on Adobe Labs. I was lucky enough to catch a presentation of the new features at last night's DC Flex User Group by Adam Lehman (CF Product Manager), and I have to say, it certainly looks intriguing and very promising.

Andrew Trice In case you missed it earlier this week, Adobe has recently released ColdFusion 9 beta on Adobe Labs and ColdFusion Builder on Adobe Labs. I was lucky enough to catch a presentation of the new features at last night's DC Flex User Group by Adam Lehman (CF Product Manager), and I have to say, it certainly looks intriguing and very promising. tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.37350 2009-07-01T01:13:10Z 2009-07-01T01:37:51Z

Kind of old news (only a week), but Adobe recently released a beta version of LCDS 3.0 on Adobe Labs. Read on to get more information about LCDS 3.0...

Andrew Trice Kind of old news (only a week), but Adobe recently released a beta version of LCDS 3.0 on Adobe Labs. Read on to get more information about LCDS 3.0... tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.37310 2009-06-26T02:28:24Z 2009-06-26T03:05:24Z

In this post, we will focus on getting started with Adobe Flash Collaboration Services (formerly Cocomo). If you've heard of this, but aren't really sure what it is, AFCS is a hosted service provided by Adobe which enables real-time collaboration within your own Flex applications.

Andrew Trice In this post, we will focus on getting started with Adobe Flash Collaboration Services (formerly Cocomo). If you've heard of this, but aren't really sure what it is, AFCS is a hosted service provided by Adobe which enables real-time collaboration within your own Flex applications. tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.37198 2009-06-16T01:06:25Z 2009-06-16T01:50:54Z

Two news items from Adobe today. Adobe released online spreadsheets with Acrobat Tables, and Adobe also releases the RTMP specification as part of the open screen project.

Andrew Trice Two news items from Adobe today. Adobe released online spreadsheets with Acrobat Tables, and Adobe also releases the RTMP specification as part of the open screen project. tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.36660 2009-06-04T01:42:25Z 2009-07-30T20:53:49Z

Connecting to data with Flex 4 and Flash Builder is now easier than ever. In this post, we'll walk through a simple scenario that will connect a Flex application to a web service, and we will barely write any code.

Andrew Trice Connecting to data with Flex 4 and Flash Builder is now easier than ever. In this post, we'll walk through a simple scenario that will connect a Flex application to a web service, and we will barely write any code. tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.36346 2009-05-27T13:08:33Z 2009-05-27T13:20:52Z

In a move to have an online office suite, Adobe recently released Acrobat.com Presentations. This, paired together with Buzzword and the additional capabilites of acrobat.com provide Adobe with a compelling online suite of office productivity applications, powered by the Flash platform.

Andrew Trice In a move to have an online office suite, Adobe recently released Acrobat.com Presentations. This, paired together with Buzzword and the additional capabilites of acrobat.com provide Adobe with a compelling online suite of office productivity applications, powered by the Flash platform. tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.36342 2009-05-27T02:47:32Z 2009-05-27T14:31:44Z

Here's a trick combining graphics filters with Google maps for some interesting effects. They don't necessarily make it easier to read the maps, nor do they have a lot of value, but they look interesting, and are fun to play with. I can't claim this idea as my own. I just randomly stumbled across this post on axismaps.com, and figured I'd throw together a Flex example showing how to do it.

Andrew Trice Here's a trick combining graphics filters with Google maps for some interesting effects. They don't necessarily make it easier to read the maps, nor do they have a lot of value, but they look interesting, and are fun to play with. I can't claim this idea as my own. I just randomly stumbled across this post on axismaps.com, and figured I'd throw together a Flex example showing how to do it. tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.36291 2009-05-21T00:55:37Z 2009-05-21T01:39:59Z

If you haven't been keeping up with the latest on Flex 4, this is something that you will certainly want to look into. One of the new features of the Flex 4/Spark component architecture is that you can customize the layout of a container without altering the container itself. All you need to do is define a custom layout. Read more to see how...

Andrew Trice If you haven't been keeping up with the latest on Flex 4, this is something that you will certainly want to look into. One of the new features of the Flex 4/Spark component architecture is that you can customize the layout of a container without altering the container itself. All you need to do is define a custom layout. Read more to see how... tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.36159 2009-05-08T02:46:02Z 2009-05-08T03:14:48Z

I was experimenting with Flex 4 this evening, and I realized something -- Incorporating video in your application is now really, really, really easy. Don't believe me, read on...

Andrew Trice I was experimenting with Flex 4 this evening, and I realized something -- Incorporating video in your application is now really, really, really easy. Don't believe me, read on... tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.36091 2009-05-01T00:20:21Z 2009-05-01T01:33:53Z

When building Flex applications, it is important to understand how to get data into and out of your applications and remote procedure calls (rpc). In this post, I'll try to shed some light on HTTPService, WebService, and RemoteObject classes and their usage.

Andrew Trice When building Flex applications, it is important to understand how to get data into and out of your applications and remote procedure calls (rpc). In this post, I'll try to shed some light on HTTPService, WebService, and RemoteObject classes and their usage. tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.36031 2009-04-22T21:54:37Z 2009-04-23T02:06:26Z

Here's a quick tip for working with real time data in Flex applications (in particular Blaze Data Services and LiveCycle Data Services). LCDS isn't new by any means, but not everyone uses it on a daily basis. Here are a few ways that you can push real-time data between the server and client applications.

Andrew Trice Here's a quick tip for working with real time data in Flex applications (in particular Blaze Data Services and LiveCycle Data Services). LCDS isn't new by any means, but not everyone uses it on a daily basis. Here are a few ways that you can push real-time data between the server and client applications. tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.36019 2009-04-22T01:05:42Z 2009-04-22T01:46:53Z

Both Adobe and Microsoft have demonstrated the capabilities and importance of player-based runtimes within the browser -- There is no question about it. There are numerous things that you can do within the player based runtime that allow for an enhanced experience, and amazing graphical capabilities. Now, it appears that more and more 3D browser plugins are popping up.

Andrew Trice Both Adobe and Microsoft have demonstrated the capabilities and importance of player-based runtimes within the browser -- There is no question about it. There are numerous things that you can do within the player based runtime that allow for an enhanced experience, and amazing graphical capabilities. Now, it appears that more and more 3D browser plugins are popping up.