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Appcelerator Titanium Releases for General Availability
Performance Increases Five-Fold; Introduces Premium Support, Training and Analytics MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – March 8, 2010 – Appcelerator®, the leading platform for rapidly developing native mobile, desktop, and iPad applications using web technologies, announced today the release of its flagship product, Appcelerator Titanium™ 1.0, for General Availability ("GA"). Titanium 1.0...
Titanium 1.0 Webcast Recordings
This week featured three webcasts on Titanium 1.0. Below are the links to the recorded sessions to review on demand: Titanium for New Developers: Link: http://vimeo.com/9961576 New to Appcelerator Titanium? We’ll give you a high-level overview of the Titanium Architecture, run through the major APIs for both mobile and desktop application development, and...
Snapost: First 0.9 App Now on the App Store
This morning, Snapost - the Twitpic/photo mobile app - went live in the App Store (link). This is the first 0.9 app released that we know of, and it’s a great example of the end result of the Titanium refactoring. Kevin Whinnery, our lead evangelist who created the app, has posted the source...
Upcoming Titanium 1.0 Webcasts
*Register today* Some of you may have read Jeff’s recent blog post about the upcoming 0.9 / 1.0 Titanium release (click here to watch the pre-release 0.9 webcast). The team is working around the clock to get out our biggest release to date. As most of you have heard by now, the...
Nearly 1,000 New Developers Flock to Appcelerator After Company Announces Support for Apple’s iPad
Titanium to Enable Web Developers to Build Fully Native iPad Apps Starting in February MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – January 29, 2010 – Appcelerator®, the leading platform for rapidly developing native mobile and desktop applications using web technologies, announced today that nearly 1,000 new developers signed up after the company announced...
If you missed yesterday’s webcast, here’s your chance to pick it up via recording on Vimeo. In this webcast, Marshall covers everything that’s new in 0.8: http://bit.ly/d6AMID New Windows Installer: MSI packaging provides a more stable and more robust installation experience. Transparent windows: Microsoft Windows apps look fantastic with customizable opacity. Improved font rendering:...
Deitte.com
Brightcove on Mobile Flash Player 10.1
I'm very excited to see all of the news about Flash today, but I'm most excited to be able to talk about the work that Brightcove has been doing with Flash 10.1. As you can see in the video below,......
Brightcove News: Meetups, Player Design, and Lots of Stuff
Brightcove News is my collection of developer-focused links about Brightcove. I post about once a month, and you can see old posts here. This post is long overdue, but I've been a little sleep-deprived and focused elsewhere lately. So......
I was handed very odd timing for a brown-bag presentation last week. The talk was scheduled months ago for an overview on new Flex and Flash tools, but as the time approached the iPad and HTML5 "discussions" in the blog......
Brightcove News: $99-A-Month Edition, Mobile Enhancements, and A Lot More
This is my largest Brightcove News post so far, as I've been a little busy lately. Now that life is return to a new sleep-deprived normal, I'll share the news I've been gathering. Brightcove 4: The launch of Brightcove 4......
Elise Marie Deitte was born on November 14th at 5 lbs 3 oz. Mother and baby are doing fine, and dad is very happy.......
mxmlc: fitter, happier, more productive
Below is the presentation I'll be giving tomorrow night at the Boston Flash User Group, Brightcove edition. The avid fan will notice that it's partially material rehashed from this blog. But I investigated a few new things, and the discussion......
Anthony's Blog
Google: Utility, Usability, Monetization
About a year ago I saw a google executive, Vince Chirico speak on a panel at a local conference. One of the things that stuck out from that session was what he said about Google’s philosophy on how it builds new applications. He said: Google focuses on Utility, Usability, and Monetization....
Mass Confusion: The hysteria over Flash, Silverlight, HTML 5, Java FX, and Objective C
I’ve been working on a whitepaper titled “Choosing The Appropriate Web User Interface Technology” for more than a year now, with input from Sun, Adobe, Microsoft and everyone here at EffectiveUI. I’ve rewritten the damn thing four times now and have decided to abandon the effort. The blunt truth is...
Software Planning and Requirements – Effective UI
Thought I’d share an excerpt from Chapter 3 of our book “Effective UI: The Art of Building Great User Experience in Software“. By far, this the most definitive explanation of why enterprises need to reconsider how they’ve approached software development in the past. RFPs, Fixed Bidding, Waterfall, all have dangerous...
Predictions on the new Apple Tablet
I thought I’d have a little fun predicting what Apple will be announcing on Wednesday. Apple will preview OS 10.7, it will feature: the once code-named “Marble Interface” be more oriented to gesture based interactivity snow-leopard was almost a complete rewrite, no big new features. 10.7 will be focused on “sexy” new features that...
How to break a patent in 5 minutes
Patents were invented in order to encourage innovation. They are supposed to protect inventors that spend money in research or discoveries made by innovative thinkers. Without them, many would argue, the United States would not have ever seen the industrial or digital revolutions. However, there are enterprises that using the patent...
Apple’s iPhone dominance is going to be hard to topple
Interesting article today on Flurry (and also summarized on MacRumors.com) We’ve been internally debating about Apple’s continued dominance in the smart-phone market. I’ve taken the position that Apple will be the leader for at least 4 years, it appears I may have been understating it bit. Looking at the chart above, it...
Official jQuery Blog
The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 15 – John Resig (jQuery 1.4.1 – 1.4.2)
This week Elijah and Ralph talked with John Resig about details from the recent jQuery 1.4 point releases. We also get updates on the next point releases and other features that are in the works. You can subscribe to the show in iTunes or via the raw RSS feed or you...
The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 14 – Phil Haack
This week Elijah and Ralph sit down and talk with Microsoft’s Phil Haack, Senior Program Manager on the ASP.NET team, currently working on the new ASP.NET MVC Framework. We discuss their recent decisions to include jQuery into several of their products what ASP.NET MVC is and how jQuery is...
The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 13 – David Walsh
In this episode we sat down and talked with David Walsh, a developer for the MooTools JavaScript framework. We spent time comparing jQuery with MooTools and talked about how each community can help each other. You can subscribe to the show in iTunes or via the raw RSS feed or you...
jQuery 1.4.2 is now out! This is the second minor release on top of jQuery 1.4, fixing some outstanding bugs from the 1.4 release and landing some nice improvements. I would like to thank the following people that provided patches for this release: Ben Alman, Justin Meyer, Neeraj Singh, and Noah...
The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 12 – Rey Bomb 1
This week Elijah Manor is attending the MVP Summit at Microsoft so Ralph Whitbeck sits down with fellow Developer Relation members Rey Bango, Cody Lindley and Karl Swedberg. Additionally, we had Doug Neiner of Fuel Your Coding on to talk about everything jQuery. We discuss the reactions to 14 Days of...
The Official jQuery Podcast – Episode 11 – Yehuda Katz
In our final episode from the 14 Days of jQuery recordings in Washington, DC, Ralph and Elijah sat down with Yehuda Katz, core team member of the Rails and jQuery teams. We discuss the new hooks that are coming in Ruby on Rails that allow it to use jQuery...
Visualrinse | Design and Development by Chad Udell
I’m speaking at D2WC! Designer and Developer Workflow Conference in Kansas City.
My summer is getting booked up. I heard recently that I will be speaking at D2WC in Kansas City. Woot! From their site: What is a workflow conference? It’s an opportunity for Web professionals to learn how to use their tools and collaborate with their teams more effectively. It’s two full...
JavaScript Image Rotator – Timed Image Swap The Rotate Images JavaScript swaps images automatically on a timer. The code supports many options and features, such as: Random Rotation PHP Images to Rotator Random Image Display, Sequential or random rotation. Linked or unlinked images. Linked images can all have the same destination URL or each...
25 Icon Packs for Sketched Look for Your Website | Best Design Options Some nice hand drawn icons (tags: sketches icons free) 30 Sketchy-Style Brushes For Illustrator | Vectips Sketchy Vectors Rock (tags: sketches vector free)...
Splitting the Atom – Massive Attack
Whoa. Massive Attack-Splitting the Atom-directed by Edouard Salier from edouard salier on Vimeo. Director : Edouard Salier Commissioner : Svana Gisla Production : Scream Park, Paris Executive Producer : Anne Lifshitz Post Production : Digital District Post producer : David Danesi CGI: Jean Lamoureux, Rémi Gamiette, Kevin Monthureux, Jimmy Cavé Art & Compositing : Julien Michel, Xavier Reyé. Flame:...
50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files You thought 25 was a lot? Then you thought 35 was a lot. To that, I say, bah… here are 50 top wireframing resources. Chew on that! (tags: wireframe resources) Mockups To Go – A user-contributed collection of ready-to-use UI … They...
A Short List of Other Tech for Flash Designers and Devs to Check Out
What do you do when you aren’t writing classes or managing assets on a timeline in Flash? How do you expand your knowledge or exercise your creativity? For me, if I still feel like tinkering on a computer but not really doing any *real* Flash/HTML/CSS work, I like to find...
FlashComGuru.com - The Original Flash Video, Flash Media Server and Flash Platform Resource
Flickr Image Search using YQL and Flex
A few days ago I spotted a Twitter conversation between Simon Whatley and Christian Heilmann which brought YQL back into my mind. In case you don't know, YQL stands for Yahoo Query Language is 'an expressive SQL-like language that lets you query, filter, and join data across Web services'. In...
Does HTML5 Video Playback Hog More CPU Than Flash?
This is not a trick question, but more of a pushback on the recent FUD that various people have been spreading. Quotes such as 'HTML5 video uses 10% CPU while Flash uses 100%' were both unprofessional and not backed up by any actual data. The short answer to the above...
Streaming Video with Amazon Cloudfront
Streamingmedia.com have published a great tutorial and overview on how to get started with Amazon's new Cloudfront Streaming service. While the service currently only supports on-demand streaming of Flash video content the company also has plans to support live streaming in the near future. This service looks like a very...
Job: Two Flash/Web Developer Positions in London
Evolution Gaming, an industry leader in live, real-time online casino games, is currently looking to fill two positions. The first one is for a Senior Flash Developer with a focus on ActionScriptwhile the second position is more of a general web development role with a focus on HTMl/CSS and also...
Ogg Theora versus H.264 Video Quality Shootout
My friend Jan has published some quality comparisons between the Ogg and H.264 video codec. For those who don't know, Ogg Theora is the video container format and codec favoured by Mozilla for playback of web video in HTML5 whereas H.264 is a widely popular codec - one may say...
Flash Player and AIR Announced for Android
As you may already know, the Mobile World Congress kicked off today in Barcelona and it did not take long for the first announcements to hit the interwebs. Adobe has of course a large presence at MWC and today announced support for Flash Player as well as Adobe AIR on...
Mike's Weblog
New version of library for inverse kinematics with JavaFX Script released
Yesterday I uploaded the new version 1.2 of the library FXUtil for inverse kinematics with JavaFX Script....
Introducing Netopyr Game Center
It's been quiet for a while around here. I have to apologize for that. Most of the time I was working on a new little project of mine to refreshen PHP, HTML, and CSS and to learn how to write applications for Facebook. It was fun, but unfortunately everything else...
Profiling JavaFX Mobile applications
Today is a great day for every developer of JavaFX Mobile applications. You wonder why? Because the JavaME SDK 3.0 was released. Congratulations to the whole team! :-) Some people might be wondering now, JavaME SDK – JavaFX Mobile, where is the connection?...
Tutorial for Inverse Kinematics Part 1 is published
Today I published the first part of the tutorial for doing inverse kinematics with the library FXUtil. It focuses on the static structure - or skeleton - of an animated object....
Best Practices for JavaFX Mobile Applications (Part 5)
Today's post focuses on optimizations for the core JavaFX runtime....
Best Practices for JavaFX Mobile Applications (Part 4)
The fourth part of my series about best practices for JavaFX Mobile Applications focuses on image loading....
Mrinal Wadhwa
I found a digital copy of Williard C. Brinton’s 1939 book “Graphic Presentation” via twitter and as I read through the book, it amazed me how little our data visualization techniques have evolved since Brinton wrote the book 70+ years ago. What was even more fascinating was this quote from...
Over the last few weeks I’ve been writing a server side web application framework for Erlang. Essentially, I looked at various available erlang frameworks like WebMachine, Nitrogen, BeepBeep, Yaws, ErlyWeb etc. and pulled out and assembled my own little framework with features I needed. I’ve also been writing an Erlang...
An Introduction to Rich Internet Applications
I had the opportunity to present a 4.5 hr lecture on Building Rich Internet Applications at ACM’s Compute 2010 today. We started out by defining what an RIA is and exploring the various RIA platforms available, we then further explored the Flash Platform in more detail, wrote some experimental code...
Going Commando in Flash Builder
Along with the Custom Components in Flex 4 presentation I shared yesterday, I also gave a 15 minute lightening talk at Adobe DevSummit on Keyboard Productivity in Flash Builder, this was just a quick show and tell where I walked people through various ways of what Jeff Atwood calls Going...
I gave a presentation on Custom Components in Flex 4 at Adobe Devsummit last week in Chennai and today in Hyderabad, here’s the slidedeck where we create an Imperial StormTrooper component ...
Flash, Erlang and Realtime Collaborative Interfaces
I’ve been learning Erlang for the past few weeks and loving the simplicity and beauty of the language. As part of a discussion at SAP TechEd, last week, I ended up creating a simple, rather rudimentary prototype of a realtime messaging server that enables collaborative user interfaces where multiple users...
Kevin Towes on Online Video at Adobe
Any of you Lost fans out there notice that you can now watch Lost, the final season and lots of other shows on ABC.com now testing Adobe Flash player to stream this episode. That's right - no more extra downloads......
RTMFP Groups / Multicast now available from Adobe Labs
Today, we released Stratus 2 RTMFP introduction service with full support RTMFP Groups. With this updated service, developers can start exploring a full set of Peer Assisted Networking functionality within Flash player 10.1 and AIR 2.0. You can access your......
Epix brings thousands of films to Cox subscribers using Adobe Flash
2010 is going to be an exciting year for Video on the web. Last year we saw un-precidented investment into new businesses using Video to drive new revenue streams. Studios and broadcasters enabled more content to be made available on......
Medici.tv using the Adobe Flash Platform to deliver high quality music performances online
We just released a case study for Medici.tv describing how they've used Flash and Flash Media Server to deliver over 100 live concerts each year to a live audience of 80,000 each time. They launched the service back in May......
Flash Media Server 3.5.3 update now available!
Today we released our 3rd service pack for Flash Media Server 3.5 (now v3.5.3). This service pack includes many bug fixes and performance improvements for DVR, Dynamic Streaming and playback. The release also includes security fixes to correct critical vulnerabilities......
Flash and FMS powers the Nobel Prize ceremonies
Today, the Nobel Prize ceremonies were streamed live online using the Flash Platform. US President Obama received his award at 1pm CET (7am ET). The ceremonies can be viewed on demand here: http://nobelprize.org/award_ceremonies/ceremony_oslo/video/2009/index.html With more than 38 million visits each......
WynApse
Silverlight Cream for March 13, 2010 -- #813
In this Issue: András Velvárt, Bobby Diaz, John Papa/Laurent Bugnion, Jesse Liberty, Christopher Bennage, Tim Greenfield, and Cameron Albert. Shoutouts: Svetla Stoycheva of SilverlightShow has an Interview with SilverlightShow Eco Contest Grand Prize Winner Daniel James Svetla Stoycheva of SilverlightShow also has an Interview with SilverlightShow Eco Contest Community Vote...
Well it's the Friday before MIX10, and I'm officially of no use to anybody. I'll be driving up to 'Vegas Sunday ... hopefully rolling in mid-late afternoon, checking in at my $31.50/night (including WiFi) Motel, and getting registered then hanging out around registration to see who is there. First...
Silverlight Cream for March 11, 2010 -- #812
In this Issue: Walter Ferrari, Viktor Larsson, Bill Reiss(-2-, -3-, -4-), Jonathan van de Veen, Walt Ritscher, Jobi Joy, Pete Brown, Mike Taulty, and Mark Miller. Shoutouts: Going to MIX10? John Papa announced Got Questions? Ask the Experts at MIX10 Pete Brown listed The Essential WPF/Silverlight/XNA Developer and Designer Toolbox...
Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2010 - 2 -- #811
In this Issue: AfricanGeek, Phil Middlemiss, Damon Payne, David Anson, Jesse Liberty, Jeremy Likness, Jobi Joy(-2-), Fredrik Normén, Bobby Diaz, and Mike Taulty(-2-). Shoutouts: Shawn Wildermuth blogged that they posted My "What's New in Silverlight 3" Video from 0reDev Last Fall Shawn Wildermuth also has a post up for his...
Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2010 -- #810
In this Issue: Andrea Boschin, Jeremy Likness(-2-), Andrew Veresov, Nokola,...
Silverlight Cream for March 08, 2010 -- #809
In this Issue: Michael Washington, Tim Greenfield, Bobby Diaz(-2-), Glenn Block(-2-),...
Christophe Coenraets
FlexStore Revisited: Building an Animated Spark Layout
Six years ago, I wrote the FlexStore sample application for Flex 1.0 (code name Royale at the time). The original version is still running here and shows the progress we have made in six years! Two years later, I rewrote the application for Flex 2. One major difference in the...
More Flex 4 / Spark ItemRenderer Samples
Here are a few additional examples of Flex 4 / Spark ItemRenderers. They are similar to the examples I provided in my previous post with a different set of items. Here is a first example using the new “depth” attribute, the new States syntax and a PostLayoutTransform: A second example showing a...
Cool ItemRenderers Made Easy in Flex 4
Flex 4 makes a lot of things a lot easier to build. After looking at custom components and skins in my previous post, here are a couple of samples focusing on ItemRenderers, States, and Animations. In this first example, I use the new “depth” attribute together with the new States syntax...
Creating a Custom Component and Skins in Flex 4
The basic idea behind the Spark component model in Flex 4 is to entirely decouple the behavior of a component from its visual representation. You code the behavior of a component in one class and its visual representation in interchangeable MXML skin classes. This new architecture leads to lighter weight...
Tampa Bay Adobe Developer Event this Thursday
I’ll be in Tampa with James Ward and Greg Wilson this week, and we thought it would be great to put together an informal event for the local Tampa bay developer community. The details below are from Greg’s original post. When: Thursday, Jan 21 6:30pm-8:30pm Location: Taverna Opa Tampa –...
AIR 2.0 Web Server using the New Server Socket API
After exploring Java integration using the new Native Process API (here and here), Excel integration using the new file.openWithDefaultApplication(), and the new Microphone API, here is another application I wrote, this time to explore the new Adobe AIR 2.0 Server Socket API. The “Mini AIR Web Server” is a simplistic implementation...
SilverlightShow: Silverlight Community
Foundation Silverlight 3 Animation
Product Description Silverlight is Microsoft's breakthrough technology for creating rich experiences on the web. This book illustrates the power of Silverlight as a graphics, animation, and game-creation tool. It teaches the fundamentals of computer animation, using trigonometry and vector movement before moving on to more advanced topics such as physics modeling...
Next-Generation Business Intelligence Software with Silverlight 3
Product Description Business Intelligence (BI) software aims to bring together different pieces of a business into views that can make comprehending mountains of data easier. BI is everywhere. Applications that include reports, analytics, statistics, and historical and predictive modeling are all examples of BI applications. Currently, we are in the second...
Jobi Joy has converted the WPF UniformGrid to Silverlight. My recent Silverlight project had a need to distribute the items in rows and columns. I had to dynamically calculate the number of columns and rows it needed based on some logic. So it was clear that I need UniformGrid as in...
In this post, Jesse Liberty concentrates his attention on the strengths of WCF RIA Services. In my previous post I discussed creating the database and tables for the Silverlight HVP configuration data. All that was great, and worked just dandy until it was time to get the data from the database server to the application running...
The Essential WPF/Silverlight/XNA Developer and Designer Toolbox
Pete Brown has a list of tools that will be especially useful to WPF, Silverlight and XNA developers. When working in WPF, Silverlight or XNA, there are a number of tools I've used over the years. I've also reached out to the community to see what tools and libraries you all like to use....
A Designer-friendly Approach to MVVM
Introduction If you work with Silverlight or WPF, you have probably met the phrase “MVVM”. Almost everyone who is anyone in the WPF / Silverlight scene has their own MVVM framework, and their own way of explaining and teaching MVVM. Scary terms like IoC, Dependency Injection, Commanding Frameworks, Event Aggregators, Unit...
James Ward - RIA Cowboy
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...
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...
Here is a new screencast that walks through the basics of integrating Flex 4 and Java: (Open full-size video in a new window)...
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...
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...
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...
Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer
Two of the people behind the products in Creative Suite have started a blog specifically about design and web technologies. We have been spending a lot of time internally thinking about how our tools can best support and take advantage of some of the new functionality in HTML 5, and...
HTML5 Performance Tested Against Flash
ReadWriteWeb distills some results from a Streaming Media post about performance between Flash Player 10 and 10.1 and HTML5. In analyzing the results of the tests, Ozer determined that the key to better Flash performance was dependent upon whether or not it could access hardware acceleration. This feature, launched in Flash...
From Mike Chambers: There has been a lot of buzz in the mobile space lately, and I suspect there will be even more around Windows Phone 7 at next week’s Microsoft Mix conference. One thing I wanted to clarify as it may have been lost in some of the other news...
Very good perspective on Flash and standards. Both the standards community and the Flash community are extremely good at sharing knowledge and supporting the people within their respective groups. The relationship across communities, however, isn’t nearly as cordial. Two things are happening: either the people within each camp stay to themselves,...
A post up about Jeff Smith from Smule and why he won’t ever target Android. Smith is part of a small but vocal chorus of app developers who say they don’t want to move to Android, even though it is growing quickly. His complaints: He doesn’t like the way the store...
Some very cool video of Flash Player and AIR running on HP’s Slate tablet computer. It’s great to see Flash Player running on a tablet. One of the nice things about the tablet versus the mobile device is that because of the larger screen size, more content will work out of...
Microsoft Silverlight content
Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/14/2010
This is Windows Client Developer roundup #16, the last one before all the MIX festivities. Sending this one out a day early so I can make my flight on Sunday. In preparation for all the coolness at MIX, make sure you have your Silverlight/WPF/XNA development...(read more)...
Can’t Be at MIX10? Watch us on Channel 9 Live!
I am really looking forward to MIX10 this year. The keynotes, sessions, parties and the best part of it all for me is talking with all of the attendees (well I can’t talk to everyone, but I try my best to get around). I will be hanging in the Commons...(read...
What I’ll be doing at MIX10 – sessions, events and Channel 9 Live!
Packing now, flight takes off in 8 hours and MIX10 starts tomorrow! I’ve posted this on twitter, but I believe this is going to be the best MIX ever. Windows Phone is already huge, keynote demos are rocking and there are a ton of interesting sessions...(read more)...
.toolbox – Free online Silverlight and Expression Blend training
Woohoo, the site is live! .toolbox is a free online training program where designers and developers can learn to create Silverlight applications using Expression Studio and to apply basic UX concepts to their solutions. I was lucky enough to get...(read more)...
The MIX10 Trivia Application - Silverlight, WCF, ASP.NET
Most Microsoft events have a few custom applications built for them. You never really hear much about them, and perhaps don't even think about them as custom apps, but there they are, in the keynote showing tweets, or before sessions (in this case) showing...(read more)...
Microsoft User Experience Kit launched today at SXSW
Today at SXSW , of which Microsoft Silverlight is a major sponsor of the Interactive Festival , Microsoft User Experience Kit is targeted at technical and creative leads who want to better understand the tools, technologies, and scenarios that span Microsoft...(read more)...
blog.FlexExamples.com
Checking that an item is selected in the Spark DropDownList control in Flex 4
The following example shows how you can check whether the user has selected an item in the Spark DropDownList control in Flex 4 by setting the Boolean requiresSelection property to true or using a NumberValidator to check the DropDownList control’s selectedIndex property is greater than -1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2010/03/12/checking-that-an-item-is-selected-in-the-spark-dropdownlist-control-in-flex-4/...
Creating a justified multiline Spark Button control in Flex 4
The following example shows how you can create a multiline, justified label on Spark Button control in Flex 4 by creating a custom skin and setting the textAlign style and removing the maxDisplayedLines property. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2010/03/09/creating-a-justified-multiline-spark-button-control-in-flex-4/ --> <s:Application name="Spark_Button_skinClass_textAlign_test" xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" ...
Creating a drop down DataGrid control in Flex 4
The following example shows how you can create a drop down MX DataGrid control in Flex 4 using the Spark PopUpAnchor control in Flex 4. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2010/03/09/creating-a-drop-down-datagrid-control-in-flex-4/ --> <s:Application name="Spark_PopUpAnchor_DataGrid_test" xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" ...
Setting the slide duration on a Spark HScrollBar control in Flex 4
In a previous example, “Setting the slide duration on a Spark HSlider control in Flex 4″, we saw how you could set the slide duration on a Spark HSlider control in Flex 4 by setting the slideDuration style. The following example shows how you can set the slide duration on a...
Removing the sort arrow skin from an MX DataGrid control in Flex
In a previous example, “Changing the default sort arrow skin on a Flex DataGrid control”, we saw how you could change the sort arrow skin on a DataGrid control in Flex by setting the sortArrowSkin style. The following example shows how you can remove the sort arrow skin from an MX...
Preventing the selected item highlighting in the Spark List control in Flex 4
In a previous example, “Preventing item selection in the Spark List control in Flex 4″, we saw how you can prevent item selection in the Spark List control in Flex 4 by listening for the changing event and calling the preventDefault() method on the IndexChangeEvent event object instance. The following example...
The Flash Blog
HP Slate Running Flash Player and AIR
Adobe and HP have just launched a new video showing Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0 running on the slick, new slate device from HP. The video shows several types of content and is a great preview of what is capable when a device fully supports the web. Lee...
New Video Tutorial on ByteArray Image Decoding
I just finished uploading a new tutorial that shows you how to use the ByteArray class to parse and display images in formats that Flash doesn’t natively support, in this case BMP. In the tutorial I explain how to read a file specification and translate that into ActionScript 3.0 code....
A Bunch of Flash-Related Stuff
There are bunch of small things that I’ve wanted to blog about so I will just do them all in this post. They are listed below in no specific order. FITC Amsterdam Workshop Files Thibault Imbert and I delivered a full-day workshop in Amsterdam on using the ByteArray class. I have already...
New Video Tutorial on Multi-Touch Gestures
I just finished uploading a new tutorial explaining how to create applications that respond to multi-touch gestures like zoom and rotate. This example creates an Adobe AIR 2.0 application as it is currently the only solution that will work cross-platform. I show the application running on both a MacBook Pro...
Adobe AIR Will Enable Innovation on Tablet Devices
There was so much exciting news to come out of Barcelona this week if you are a fan of mobile devices. We saw Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR both announced on the Android platform. As I’m sure you have seen from the demos, not only are these technologies running...
The Unofficial Nexus One Flash Demos
There were some great polished keynotes at the Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona this week. While they did an awesome job showing off Flash Player 10.1 in the mobile browser, I put together a low-budget video showing some of the stuff that wasn’t shown. Enjoy! Lee...