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Flypaper Pro Launches the Presentation Dashboard

David Tucker
July 22, 2008 | | Comments (0)
David Tucker
Flypaper Pro Launches the Presentation Dashboard

I had a chance today to chat with the people at Flypaper about the new Pro version that is being released today. If you haven't heard of Flypaper it is an application and player that allows you to create interactive presentations with their desktop authoring application and then easily publish in a multitude of ways.

More Interesting Data Visualizations

Andrew Trice
July 21, 2008 | | Comments (3)
Andrew Trice
Sorry, no code in this post. I decided to venture further from Flex development for a brief moment, and will focus on data and how it can be represented visually. My last post on data visualization sparked a desire to search the web to see what kinds of visualizations are out there.

The Weekly RIA Round-Up for July 19

David Tucker
July 18, 2008 | | Comments (2)
David Tucker

This week Radiohead captivated the online community, the Flex 4 SDK gets its first public build, Bruce Eckel questions Sun's UI credentials, and an Adobe Evangelist compares Flex and Silverlight. All this and more on the Weekly RIA Round-Up.

Open Source Code Licenses Review

Andre Charland
July 18, 2008 | | Comments (1)
Andre Charland
Grant Skinner has been thinking about and researching open sources licenses. I think this is timely blog post that everyone involved in software should take a look to get a quick high level understanding of the most popular open source licenses.

Flex RIA Performance Considerations Part 4: The Display Hierarchy

Jun Heider
July 17, 2008 | | Comments (4)
Jun Heider
Overview When building a Flex application, you need to consider the objects you display and how they interact with the end user, the Flash Player, and even the Flex Framework itself. Performance is all about doing things in the least...

Impressive Data Visualization

Andrew Trice
July 15, 2008 | | Comments (3)
Andrew Trice
I was checking out the PaperVision3D blog today, and stumbled across a really impressive data visualization technique used by the band Radiohead with the release of their new video for "House of Cards". Why is this on insideria.com, you may wonder? Read on to see...

Dreamweaver CS4 - Beta Demo

Andre Charland
July 15, 2008 | | Comments (4)
Andre Charland
In case you haven't been following there's been some buzz about Dreamweaver recently and the next version is drastically improved for today's web developer. Whether you're focused on design or interactive user interfaces with JavaScript you should definitely take a look and download the beta. They're going away from WYISYG everything and just trying to make coding easier. In this screencast I caught up with Scott Fegette from the Dreamweaver product management team to get a demo of the new features.

Flex 4 (Gumbo) Available for Download

Andre Charland
July 14, 2008 | | Comments (9)
Andre Charland
The Flex 4 SDK, code named Gumbo, is up for download now. This is an exciting time for Flex, it's now 2 full versions beyond Flex 2 which was really the first version of Flex that gained mainstream adoption. Adobe is really working hard to get ready for the release of Flash 10 and Thermo.

New AIR Resource for Flash Developers

David Tucker
July 14, 2008 | | Comments (0)
David Tucker
New AIR Resource for Flash Developers
My recent Lynda.com series, AIR for Flash Developers, was recently released in the Lynda.com Online Training Library. In this series, I cover most all of the AIR API and how to integrate it with your Flash files. As I stated on my blog, this series is not for everyone. It does require a working knowledge of ActionScript 3 and Flash CS3. However, if you need to brush up on these skills, Lynda.com provides additional series that cover most every aspect of Flash and ActionScript training.

AIR: Tricks with mx:HTML

Andrew Trice
July 13, 2008 | | Comments (2)
Andrew Trice
In a number of cases, it is a lot easier to format text for display with HTML, rather than create an ActionScript based component to render complex-formatted text. This is especially the case when you have mixed content that should be displayed inline within the content (images, tables, text wrapping, etc...). Here are a few tricks that you can use to fully take advantage of the mx:HTML control within your applications.



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