9 May 01:16 Looking for a Flex job, tired of contract work? The company I work for is hiring another full time Flex developer to join our team (we currently have a team of two Flex devs). We are developing some amazing new applications. The best part about working for our company is that we already have the audience and the funds of [... 27 Apr 23:52 A have been checking out a recent application called Scrapblog and looking under the hood at how the put the application together. I know they use XML to markup the coordinates and properties of media elements on the page. What surprised me was that they take a Bitmap image of each slide and save that as [... 4 Apr 01:28 I ran into a little problem loading Modules and accessing the interface to fire methods within the loaded module. This occurs when I load one module using the ModuleLoader into another Module. I followed the Adobe examples that use the ModuleLoader and cast the event as an Interface to access the methods. Here [... 27 Mar 02:26 The race is on to build a blog using Flex. When Flex first hit the streets I immediately thought of making a Wordpress theme built entirely in Flex that works with PHP (the Wordpress backend). I never got around to creating this idea, but others have had the same notion to build a Flex-based blog. I have seen a few implementations of [... 23 Mar 02:05 I ran into a problem recently with loading modules that contain instances of the List control. The modules would load and display just fine, but as soon as you started to interact with them, you would get the following error: TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference. at mx.managers::DragManager$/get [... 20 Mar 04:42 Picnik is a new Flex application that allows you to upload edit, save, and create images. You can even use the built-in video capability of Flex to capture and edit web cam photos. Picnik displays a ton of cool photo editing tools from color correction and red-eye to cropping and rotation of images. One thing [... 9 Mar 23:48 The keynote presented by Ted Patrick discussed two upcoming releases for Flex. The first release, named Moxie, will include the following: Enhanced DataGrid/Lists Design View Enhancements Cross-domain caching of the Flex framework and applications Tech also demonstrated a refactoring feature of the new Moxie release that allows you to update a function name by simply renaming the method call [... 7 Mar 12:43 On the second day of the 360Flex conference, I attended some excellent presentations by Alex Harui, Ely Greenfield (Quietly Scheming) and the always entertaining Jesse Warden. The day started with a full discussion of Modules by Alex Harui. When I first heard about Modules in Flex at the Adobe Max 2006, I envisioned the ability to import modules [... 6 Mar 15:30 First day at 360Flex Conference in San Jose. The most interesting presentation (besides the keynote) was given by Christian Canrtell, an Apollo Application Developer. Christian covered the Apollo APIs. The File System APIs will have several key features (that I was interested in): File object pointers to files and/or directories Ability to get the path to special directories (My [... 3 Mar 01:26 Just a quick blurb about a new Flickr site that showcases Flex Applications. Photo sets include Components, Private Applications, and Demo applications. To get your own application showcased on Flickr, visit Ted Patrick’s post and follow the directions. | 