 | 16 Jul 23:38 I remember a time not so long ago, when I was trying to convince a friend of mine that Flash was a perfect solution for his application. He was after all working with a highly visual type of data - maps. His mission for me was to put two items on a map [... 25 Jun 06:22 Ryan Stewart and I are crazy about GPS and geospatial information. We both actually carry a Trackstick device wherever we travel which records our adventures. The data file can be accessed via USB as any number of formats, but it is usually XML-oriented. Of course we’re both building applications that use this [... 13 Jun 23:02 It is pretty common these days that Flex developers come from traditional programming backgrounds. This means that more and more, many developers leveraging the Flash Player, have never worked with Flash CS3. It also then means that many Flex developers aren’t always familiar with common Flash authoring techniques. Here’s a quick introduction [... 21 May 06:11 There’s an old demonstration we used to show for Flex Data Services, now LiveCycle DS, that pushed data from the server to the client to be charted. More modern incarnations of this can still be found as samples included with LiveCycle DS and BlazeDS (Trader Desktop). The original incarnation was great fun to [... 1 Apr 03:55 As I was hanging out in Madrid, getting acclimated for the AIR Europe Tour, I started thinking about what I was going to present - specifically around script bridging. In the United States, I just talked about how Flash and HTML are separate, but can be integrated. I though it would be good [... 21 Feb 03:42 As I was preparing for the pre-release user group tour, I was surprised at just how much content around the new Flex 3 features was already available. The Flex engineering teams have been working diligently to be more transparent for the benefit of our customers - and it shows. The main problem I [... 15 Feb 03:22 We put the wraps on the Flex 3 and AIR 1.0 pre-release user group tour last week. I had the privilege of visiting eight different user groups over two weeks. There’s a lot of new stories to tell, not the least of which is the snow storm that slammed into Milwaukee, WI and [... 31 Jan 02:22 The Flex framework is amazingly capable. Between renderers, editors, skins, styles and containers, you can produce amazing applications. Sometimes however developers get stuck in the framework; they think they need to use the framework for everything. I used to see this a lot with list-based controls, but of late the target for getting stuck seems [... 16 Jan 02:15 There’s no mistaking that Flex 2 has been a historic release in the evolution of the framework. With Flex 3 closing in fast, there’s even more great features we can now use in our applications. Sometimes however, it is important to go back a remember some of the smaller features we may be overlooking. On [... 8 Dec 02:22 The web’s insatiable appetite for upload functionality never ceases to amaze me. What do I mean? My little blog has around 100 posts of technology goodness. In the top five most trafficked posts are two articles I’ve done on uploading files. The more popular of the two goes all the way back to the days [... | | |