News by Michael Ritchie

Secure login using the EncryptedLocalStore in Adobe AIR

19 Aug 10:29
Adobe AIR has a quick and safe way to store encrypted user data when building applications. Data such as login and password can be persisted in the application using the EncryptedLocalStore available for AIR applications. To demonstrate this, I wrote a quick demo application that will store username and password after users login. [...

Google crawls Flash, mostly…

2 Jul 05:58
Today Google reported that they now have a new algorithm for indexing the textual content of Flash files. This has always been something businesses have been concerned with, how to do SEO (Search Engine Optimization) with Flash. Flash developers (and Flex) would have to place the content of the Flash into a [...

Xdrive AS3 Library

18 Jun 08:25
I have not posted in a long long while it seems. That would be nice if I were just hanging out on a beach some place. However, I have been busy doing lots of things for work and working on a new AS3 library. I have been developing for the past few months an AS3 library [...

Custom RichTextEditor

25 Apr 09:18
One of the longest running post on my blog has been about creating XHTML output from the Flex RichTextEditor control. I always thought it would would be nice if someone took all the comments and suggestions for that post and created a customized control that outputs proper XTHML. Well, Axel Jenson has [...

Building ASDocs and SWC with Flex Ant Tasks (flexTasks) for both Mac and PC

7 Mar 21:33
I wanted to write a quick post because I am just exploring the ability to build ASDocs using ANT from within Flex Builder 3. Adobe Labs has a post about using Flex Ant Tasks to manage builds from Flex. With this tool you can compile Flex applications, modules, libraries, and HTML wrapper code, [...

Omniture Tracking in AIR Applications

28 Jan 10:01
If you are developing Enterprise level applications chances are you are either used Omniture or you will be asked to integrate with Omniture tracking services. This post is not really about the specifics of Omniture tracking, but rather about the implementation methods for Flash, Flex, and AIR (with Flex). Usually, Omniture tracking [...

Get ready to breathe some AIR with Oxygen

12 Jan 03:45
Xdrive is coming out with a new desktop client called Oxygen that will manage their online storage service using Adobe AIR and Flex.  Larry Drolet and I first discussed Oxygen at a recent FITC conference in Hollywood. Oxygen was first designed as a proof of concept application using Flex, AIR, and the Xdrive JSON API version 1.2.  [...
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