Salesforce.com is putting on a great event on August 25 in San Mateo, California where you can learn about how to build RIAs on the Cloud with Flash Builder for Force.com. This will be a great opportunity to meet the team that built the tool and learn how to use it! If you can’t make [...]
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Bay Area Event: Building RIAs using Flash Builder for Force.com
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How to Define Styles on Skins in Flex 4
The new component / skin separation in Flex 4 (the Spark Architecture) is pretty nifty. But if you want to add a configurable style to a skin then that style must be defined on the component. For instance if you want to add a backgroundColor style to a Button skin then you need to first [...]
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Building Client / Cloud Apps with Flash Builder for Force.com
I have a theory. The majority of people who use enterprise software today use old school Client / Server apps. We’ve been trying to move these apps to the web for more than ten years. The ease of deployment of web apps is a clear motivator. Yet the client capabilities of the plain old web [...]
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Developing Mobile Flash / Flex – Scaling and Zooming
Mobile development with Flash and Flex is a new frontier, full of new adventures and discoveries. Recently I discovered something that might be useful to you. By default the mobile web browser on my Android 2.2 device scales a web page to make more room to display pages typically built for a desktop profile. Here [...]
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amf.js – A Pure JavaScript AMF Implementation
I just finished the first version of a new pure JavaScript library for AMF. I’ve wanted to do this for a while but didn’t think it was possible since JavaScript doesn’t have a ByteArray. But then I came across this: “High Performance JavaScript Port of ActionScript’s ByteArray“. That became the basis for amf.js. Before I [...]
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Tour de Flex 2.0 – Nearly 500 Flex Examples!
Adobe has just launched the new AIR 2 based Tour de Flex version 2.0 which now contains almost 500 Flex examples! The new version has new AIR 2 examples (only available in the AIR version of Tour de Flex) including: File Promises Mass Storage Detection Native Process Open with default app Socket Server Also there [...]
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Top 10 StackOverflow.com Flex Contributors
Back in the day the FlexCoders Yahoo! Group was all the rage. It was the place where Flex rock stars like Alex Harui and Doug McCune hung out and helped the community learn Flex. But these days a lot of developers have turned to StackOverflow.com as their primary resource for getting answers to their technical [...]
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Flex 4, Hibernate 3, and Spring 3 Integration
Jon Rose and I have created a new DZone Refcard called Flex 4 and Spring 3 Integration. In the Refcard, we walk you through the steps for building RIAs with Flash Builder 4, Flex 4, BlazeDS 4, Spring 3, the Spring BlazeDS Integration, and Hibernate. Whew! That’s a lot of pieces! The Refcard covers simple [...]
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Improved Open Source Testing Tools for Flex
Back in the early days of Flex there wasn’t much for doing unit testing, automated testing, performance testing, etc. Thanks to the community there are now numerous open source testing tools for Flex. Here are some recent updates you should definitely check out if you are building production Flex apps: FlexUnit 4.1 Beta 1 FlexMonkey [...]
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