One of my most viewed blogs is one of the most simple demo apps I’ve built. It’s a simple Flex app that lets the user draw with their mouse and then lets them save their drawing. I’ve updated the Flex Paint demo to Flex 4. Check it out: (View the source code)
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Flex 4 is Here! Go forth and build better software!
Flex 4 and its counterpart, Flash Builder 4, are now publicly available! We’ve also launched a new flex.org and added a ton of new Flex 4 samples in Tour de Flex! Rich Internet Applications are the next generation of software. For the first time in the history of software the goal is not to simply [...]
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Flex Camp Wall Street and Flex on the Cloud Videos
Two great Flex conferences have recently posted their video recordings: Flex Camp Wall Street Flex on the Cloud There were numerous great sessions and speakers at each of these conferences. At Flex Camp Wall Street I presented “Flex Stuff I am Excited About”. Check it out and let me know what you think.
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Upcoming Presos: Flash Camp Chicago, Devnexus & Flex on the Cloud in Atlanta, Java Posse Roundup, and TSSJS Las Vegas
I’ll be attending and presenting at a number of great events over the next few weeks: February 26 Flash Camp Chicago March 8 – 9 Devnexus in Atlanta March 10 Flex in the Cloud in Atlanta March 16 – 19 Java Posse Roundup in Crested Butte, Colorado March 17 – 19 The Server Side Java [...]
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Flex 4 and Java Basics Video
Here is a new screencast that walks through the basics of integrating Flex 4 and Java: (Open full-size video in a new window)
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Flex Performance on Mobile Devices
This past weekend I spent an hour optimizing the Flex 4 scrolling demo that I posted last week. The original demo was intended to show how to hook up touch events to the Flex 4 List / DataGroup controls. This new version adds some optimizations for the touch event handling and adds the kinetic flick [...]
Also posted in Flash Player, Flex, Mobile 38 Comments
Flex 4 List Scrolling on Android with Flash Player 10.1
UPDATE 1: The first version of this demo was intended to show how to hook up touch events to the Flex 4 List / DataGroup controls. I’ve posted a new version that adds some optimizations for the touch event handling and adds the kinetic flick behavior. One of the challenges of running existing web content [...]
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Flex Apps on Mobile Devices
This week at Mobile World Congress Adobe has been showing off Flash Player 10.1 on a variety of mobile devices. Last week I received Google’s Nexus One device with an early version of Flash Player 10.1 on it. Here is a video I shot today showing how Flex applications can run on mobile devices with [...]
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Geek Week in Denver
This week in Denver is going to be a total geek fest! I’m pretty excited about three great events: Monday Feb 15: Jason Huggins on Web-application testing with Selenium Tuesday Feb 16: Denver Tech Meetup Thursday Feb 18: Flex and The Cloud (I’m presenting at this one.) There is a rumor that we might record [...]
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