The combination of Flex and The Cloud is quickly becoming an IT and paradigm changing combination. Here are a number of recently published resources for learning more about this : An article I wrote has been published on the online Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine: Flex and The Cloud: Is this really just Client/Server 2.0? [...]
Category Archives: Flash Player
Exciting Flash Platform Advancements
Recently there has been a number of exciting advancements with the Flash Platform (Flex, Flash Player, and Adobe AIR). Here is a quick round-up: Adobe released security updates for the Flash runtimes: Flash Player 10.0.42.34 and Adobe AIR 1.5.3. The Flash Player update fixes an issue with mouse scroll wheels not working in Flash when [...]
Also posted in Adobe AIR 6 Comments
How Bad Crossdomain Policies Expose Protected Data to Malicious Applications
The web’s success has been partially due to the sandbox it provides users. Users do not generally have to entirely trust every website they visit because malicious web sites should be sandboxed from doing the user harm. One way that web sites are sandboxed is through a same-origin policy. By default any code that runs [...]
Also posted in Flex, Security 12 Comments
RIAs on the Web, on the Desktop, and in a PDF
Some believe that the “Internet” in “rich Internet application” (RIA) means that RIAs must only run in the browser. However my definition of RIA is not constrained to only web-based applications. RIAs can run anywhere: web, desktop, mobile devices, TVs, or even inside PDFs. Ideally we should have some level of code and library reusability [...]
Also posted in Adobe AIR, Flex, PDF 20 Comments
Fonts in Flex 4 / Flash Player 10 / AIR 1.5 Make Me Happy
Device font rendering in Flash content has always had some limitations, including the inability for text to be correctly scaled, rotated, and faded. Due to these limitations many developers using Flex resort to embedding fonts. But this can really bloat the size of applications – especially when working with non-English languages. Luckily Flash Player 10 [...]
Also posted in Adobe AIR, Flex 12 Comments
Flash Platform Partner Resources
The Flash Platform (Adobe AIR, Flash Player, Flex, etc.) has become a mainstream software development platform. This is very exciting but also leads to me getting a boat-load of email. That is great! I love hearing from the community and answering questions. I do respond to every email I get – even if it takes [...]
Also posted in Adobe AIR, Flash Platform, Flex 5 Comments
Take the Tour de Flex
Over the past few months Greg Wilson, Christophe Coenraets, and myself have been hard at work on a secret project. So today we are proud to announce the new Tour de Flex has just gone live! Tour de Flex showcases the capabilities of Flex, BlazeDS, LCDS, Adobe AIR, and Flash Player (now collectively called the [...]
Also posted in Adobe AIR, BlazeDS, Flex, LCDS 12 Comments
Flash Player for 64-bit Linux – BETA NOW AVAILABLE!
Getting Flash Player working on 64-bit Linux systems has been a challenge. But not anymore! Today Adobe Systems released a beta of native Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux! Check it out and report bugs to the open Flash Player bug database. Here is a short video I shot of me testing the new Flash [...]
Also posted in Linux 8 Comments
Lets all get Drunk on Software!
On a recent dreary Saturday afternoon in Denver my friend Jon Rose and I decided to give the video podcasting thing a try. The first episode is about the changes to the recently released Flash Player 10 that will impact software developers (primarily those of the Flex persuasion). When preparing to record the interview we [...]
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