 | 1 Jul 18:23 I just wanted to pass the news I've just read from the Google Official Blog: Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we've improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe's Flash Player technology. 1 Jul 16:55 In a previous example, “Setting a complete effect on a ProgressBar control in Flex”, we saw how you could apply an effect that plays once a Flex ProgressBar control completes (reaches 100%). The following code shows how you can play an embedded sound effect once a Flex ProgressBar control completes using the mx.effects SoundEffect class and [... 1 Jul 12:15 By default, ColdFusion 8 comes with LCDS 2.5. But there’s a lot of new, good stuff in LCDS 2.6 that might be good to take advantage of if you’re doing data services work in ColdFusion. There are some instructions on Labs, but I just tried them tonight, and I think they’re terrible. Luckily, Joshua Rodgers [... 1 Jul 09:07 Two new projects and four updates this week. Did you, dear reader, realize that I have been doing this weekly update for over two years now? Well, neither did I. I am not sure why I was curious, but I was and it turns out that the the very first update was on April 30, 2006. I think in two years I have missed a couple weeks, usually on Christmas. I thought there was a lot to talk about back then, when there were probably no more than 100 projects. 1 Jul 07:58 I have posted chapter 2 of the Adobe AIR for Flex Developers Pocketguide on tostring.org. The chapter is titled Getting Started with Adobe AIR Development and covers (from the chapter): Installing Adobe AIR Configuring the Flex SDK and command-line tools Creating your first AIR application with the Flex SDK and Flex Builder 3 Testing AIR applications Signing, packaging, and deploying AIR applications This is just a draft chapter (. 1 Jul 03:39 Just a quick note, but we have posted the Adobe AIR 1.1 Release Notes in HTML. Previously they were only available via PDF. There is a lot of useful and important information in the release notes about developing in AIR 1.1, so make sure to check them out. 30 Jun 23:58 So, what do baby showers and Flex have in common? Not a whole lot. But the Target Gift Registry and Flex have a lot in common! My fiancee and I were shopping for a shower gift for a couple who are registered at Target. I fired up the the registry kiosk and there it is, the ubiquitous Flex loader! The application itself was put together quite well and the usability was excellent. The only part of the process that I didn't like was selecting a state. 30 Jun 19:34 On Friday we had our Flex Usergroup Hamburg meeting in our Adobe office. Our speaker Claus Wahlers gave us a look behind the scenes aka source of FC64 which he developed together with Darron Schall. Claus started with some “basics” about how the C64 works to get an idea about what has to be emulated. [... 30 Jun 16:51 The following example shows how you can add a complete effect on a Flex Image control by setting the completeEffect effect using MXML, CSS, or ActionScript. Full code after the jump. 30 Jun 11:24 The following example shows how you can prevent the Flex Image control to automatically loading an image when setting the Image control’s source property by setting the autoLoad property to false and then explicitly loading the image using the load() method. Full code after the jump. | | |