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Fixed: "An internal build error has occurred" with FB3 & Galileo

Mike Slinn
September 30, 2009 | | Comments (9)
Mike Slinn
James Ward surprised us today with a patch for Flex Builder 3 that makes it work with Eclipse Galileo SR1. James solved the dreaded "An internal build error has occurred" problem. His solution was to replace ProblemManager with his...

Flex's coopetition: HTML5

Mike Slinn
August 14, 2009 | | Comments (7)
Mike Slinn
Flex's coopetition: HTML5
It won't be ready for prime time this year, and probably not next year, but the HTML5 specification is firming up and current implementations suggest a that HTML5 will be a strong platform for RIAs. People familiar with other versions of HTML might assume that Flex would have a few advantages over HTML5: AIR (no browser required) and data services (distributed computing.) The neologism 'coopetition' might be an apt term for the relationship between HTML5 and Flex.

Certified Adobe Flex 3 with AIR ACE

Mike Slinn
August 6, 2009 | | Comments (9)
Mike Slinn
I've joined the growing number of people with this certification. Candidates are allowed 85 minutes to answer 50 questions when they take the exam. I was given the orientation, answered a short quiz, took the test, reviewed my answers, was...

Enabling compression

Mike Slinn
July 15, 2009 | | Comments (0)
Mike Slinn
Web servers will transport data more quickly if compression is enabled. The degree to which compression speeds up data transfer is data-dependent; many instances of repeated patterns, such as zeros, are necessary for compression to be effective. You can see an example of the benefits of data compression with James Ward's Census application; click on Navigator, then run some benchmarks with GZip enabled and disabled.

Flex, Silverlight, GWT and JavaFX Job Trends

Mike Slinn
July 10, 2009 | | Comments (26)
Mike Slinn
Here are the results of a query on RIA job trends on indeed.com: One naturally has many questions about the data: what geographic area does it represent? How are duplicate postings handled? ... and so on, however the trend lines...

Silex - Open Source RIA

Mike Slinn
July 2, 2009 | | Comments (2)
Mike Slinn
SourceForge's FOSS project of the month of June was Silex. From the SourceForge writeup: "Silex is an open source RIA that enables you to build Flash websites for Flash Player 7, 8, 9, and 10. Silex is a new kind...

Eclipse / Flex Builder Undelete

Mike Slinn
June 25, 2009 | | Comments (4)
Mike Slinn
Regardless of whether you use Windows, Mac or Linux, if you delete a file in an Eclipse or Flex Builder project, the file does not go to your Trash. Fear not! You can retrieve these missing files. Eclipse keeps...

Flash Builder, Linux and Winning the RIA War

Mike Slinn
June 18, 2009 | | Comments (28)
Mike Slinn
Summary: Adobe should address developers with a marketing program that is separate from their designer marketing program, and offer products aimed at hard-core developer interests. The goal would be to leverage the influential developer community to drive sales of products...

Muzzling Flex Builder

Mike Slinn
May 29, 2009 | | Comments (4)
Mike Slinn
Flex Builder complains when a CSS definition exists for components that are not used in a project.  I do not find this helpful.If you click on the filter button in the Problems panel, a dialog will appear that allows you...

InfoMouse

Mike Slinn
May 3, 2009 | | Comments (6)
Mike Slinn
Sometimes I wish Flex had the equivalent of the 'Display Element Information' feature of the Web Developer plugin for Firefox. It is often useful to see exactly where the boundaries of a container are, and selected information about a component...

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