 | 31 Aug 16:59 Matt Chotin blogged tips about Flex Builder performance tuning. I am using Windows and Eclipse 3.2.2 with Flex Builder Plugin. I have a shortcut to the eclipse.exe on my desktop. In the shortcut properties you can set the complete command line: D:\tools\eclipse\eclipse.exe -vm “C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_11\bin\javaw. 28 Aug 23:20 If you are interested in the combination Flex & Java there is a new Adobe devnet article: From Java to Flex There is also an older article covering Flex & Java: Flex and Java - A perfect technological marriage Bookmark to: 8 Aug 19:45 Josh Tynjala wrote an article about “How to make your hot new RIA friendly to search engines“. [via onflex. 7 Aug 20:09 There are two new Extensions on Adobe Labs which are very interesting. If you want to design and animate in Flash and you want to use this in Flex the Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 is the thing you are looking for. The AIR Extension for Dreamweaver will allow you to package and preview .air application [... 3 Aug 22:44 Modules are a very important concept to separate different aspects in your application and for later re usage in other applications. Last but not least Modules will save compilation time as only the Module and not the complete project is being compiled. Modules were introduce in Flex 2.01 Hotfix 2 and Moxie (Flex Builder 3 beta) [... 2 Aug 17:16 When you develop with AS3 and/or Flex 2/3 be sure to read the articles of Grant Skinner about Flash Player 9 Garbage Collection and Resource Management. 1 Aug 16:22 I was looking for a Flex component which acts like the iTunes view where you can browse through your covers. Ely Greenfield made a wonderful component which exactly does it. He calls the component DisplayShelf and you find his blog post here with source and example. 31 Jul 17:31 AIR Cairngorm is an ActionScript 3 open source project. The project starts with an API for SQLite and the FileSystem capabilities of AIR. Learn more about Cairngorm on Adobe Labs. 28 Apr 20:40 Adobe announced that Flex 3 will be released Open Source. In Flex 2 the framework was already Open Source but in Flex 3 also the ActionScript core classes and the compiler will be released Open Source. Check the news.com article. This year I have started to work for Adobe as a contractor and since March I have a [... 31 Mar 23:47 Interesting benchmarks and comparison of Apollo, Flex, DHTML and WPF. | | |