Flex

Effects Explorer link fixed…

by kai 25/10/2006

Sorry for the linking issues, should work now. It’s also linked from the right column of the starting page now.

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Faking a currency numeric stepper in Flex 2

by kai 23/10/2006

I was building a Flex 2 prototype for a customer just recently. Part of this prototype application were several forms to juggle with money amounts in NZ$ – a good opportunity to use a numeric stepper you might think. Obviously, when dealing with money values in an application, you would like to have a currency […]

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Pre-Review: Flex 2 Developing Rich Client Applications

by kai 27/07/2006

I’m currently working myself through the Flex 2: Developing Rich Client Applications materials. This class is basically going to be the introductory class of the certified Adobe curriculum and would usually be a 3-day class (roughly). After going through the book, the slides and the examples I just have to say that this class rocks! […]

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Some mixed stuff

by kai 18/03/2006

Some mixed stuff and links that I came across during the last few days: Good CSS tutorials Microsoft IE Active Content Update – particularly important for Flash developers Breezo on IE Update Flex 1.5 patch for IE update Nokia Flash Lite Zone Tons of stuff on labs.adobe.com: XMP toolkit Breezo on Flex-Ajax integration AS 3 […]

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Pseudo static variables in Flash/Flex

by kai 13/09/2005

The other day I was running into an odd issue. I’ve developed a Flex component and inherited two other components from this parent component. In the parent component I’ve defined a private variable inside of an mx:Script block: private var myDataArray = new Array(); Additionally the parent component offered a private function to push objects […]

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Flex, Eclipse and the Eclipse Web Tools Platform

by kai 31/08/2005

In one of my last posts I told you about some issue with OxygenXML and Eclipse 3.1 when doing Flex development. Luckily, Darron Schall just blogged about his efforts to use the Eclipse Web Tools Platform for Flex development and seemed to be pretty satisfied with it. I gave it a try today and I’d […]

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Visualization of Amdahls Law II: Flex app

by kai 28/08/2005

Following my last two posts, here’s the final Flex app. If it takes a while to load and to start the reason is most probably not your line or Flex, it’s more or less because of my pretty slow server. Well, comparing to yesterday’s screenshot, I changed a few things in the UI, applied a […]

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Accolade for Flex: SAP embeds Flex into NetWeaver

by kai 26/04/2005

Wow, this might become huge: SAP just announced that they will embed Macromedias Flex into their NetWeaver technology, in particular into NetWeaver Visual Composor as a first step. SAP developers will be able to deliver applications using the Flex technology within NetWeaver as they were able to do this with DHTML and Java by now […]

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Flex and SAP: some speculative thoughts

by kai 26/04/2005

After the announcement of SAP to integrate Flex in their NetWeaver platform I digged a bit and tried to compile some information about this approach and it’s possible impacts. Be aware that I’m far away from being an SAP expert, it’s more of a collection of interesting resources and my personal thoughts…1. Flex to run […]

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Installing Flex 1.5 on Suse Linux 9

by kai 26/01/2005

I’ve got a linux box running at an ISP for my testing, lab and fun projects. After receiving the Flex non-commercial license several days ago I installed it over the weekend and – be surprised or not – it went quite smoothly. As I never installed it on Linux before, I’m very happy about that […]

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