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Testing Flex Apps with FlexMonkey Reloaded

Whether or not you use a tool to test your Flex apps, you are repeatedly testing your application. Doing this by hand is a pain: start the app, click...

1 replies - 2837 views - 04/02/11 by James Ward in News

YouTube Videos in Flex

Here is an example of how to get YouTube videos to be shown inside your Flex Application. The first thing to do is add an SWFLoader to your mxml file. The...

0 replies - 5177 views - 03/31/11 by Chris Callendar in News

Flex events allow for an even better component architecture

When we talk about component architecture, what do we mean? In my view, we have the need to create stand-alone components which can...

0 replies - 3147 views - 03/21/11 by Marco Tedone in News

A Flex Alternative to 'Are You Sure' Dialogs

One of my pet hates in interaction design is the use of confirmation dialogs before the user attempts to do anything of worth. More often than not, with...

3 replies - 3639 views - 03/07/11 by Simon Gladman in News

RIAs in the Enterprise: A Trainer’s Perspective

The assertion made by enterprises prior to examining a “rebuild” of existing web applications (i.e. HTML 4, XHTML, JavaScript, Applets, Struts, etc) is...

1 replies - 14317 views - 02/28/11 by Kevin Ruse in Articles

UI Design with Flash Catalyst CS5

Flash Catalyst is a unique tool for prototyping.  Prototyping, of course, is now considered best practices for web application production.  It really solves...

0 replies - 7954 views - 02/15/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

The Roadmap for Day Software and LiveCycle ES - a Focus on UX

Duane Nickull and Michael Chaize recently presented the roadmap for Adobe's newly acquired Day Software and the next version of LiveCycle ES in Barcelona. ...

0 replies - 18904 views - 02/11/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Simulating Belousov–Zhabotinsky Reactions in Flex

The Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction is a class of chemical reaction that exhibits morphogenesis or spontaneous pattern creation. The mechanism...

0 replies - 4546 views - 01/24/11 by Simon Gladman in News

Papervision3D and Beyond - 3D Graphics With Just a Few Lines of AS3 or XML

In recent months we have seen 3D come into play more and more. With more movies being created in 3D and even 3D televisions being introduced it is starting to...

0 replies - 6963 views - 01/20/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Writing a Caching Engine for Flash Player

Not to be confused with Object Pooling, I’m referring to saving data you need to persist in your application across sessions, and more specifically about...

0 replies - 4692 views - 01/18/11 by Jesse Warden in News

What's New in Flash Builder 4.5 "Burrito"?

Flash Builder 4.5 is aimed at making mobile application development just another simple step in the process of building a desktop or web app in Flex.  The...

0 replies - 12083 views - 01/17/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Roo Flex add-on is ALIVE!

It's always good to ask.  The Roo Flex add-on had been incompatible with Roo 1.1.0, and I've been working on the rich web chapter.  I had checked in with...

9 replies - 11435 views - 01/03/11 by Ken Rimple in News

Video: Large-scale RIAs, multi-screen development, and improving Flex performance

Adobe is making it easier and easier to build applications, especially ones that can be used within the enterprise, that run across 'multiple screens'. ...

0 replies - 4294 views - 01/03/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Video: Comparing AIR for Android Development Processes

 Duane Nickull recently released a set of two applications, one built using the Flex 4.1 SDK and one built using the Flex 4.5 SDK (Burrito version of...

0 replies - 4209 views - 12/14/10 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

P2P in Desktop, Mobile, and Tablet Flex Apps

Using the open source Flex SDK, developers can easily build desktop, mobile, and tablet applications that use Peer to Peer (P2P) communication. I’ve...

0 replies - 5475 views - 12/09/10 by James Ward in News