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Dynamic, Persistent Skins with Degrafa

Degrafa is a declarative graphics framework for Flex. This means that programatic graphic instructions like: graphics.lineStyle( 1, 0xffffff ); graphics.moveTo( 10, 10 ); graphics.lineTo( 30, 30 ); graphics.lineTo( 10, 30 ); can be expressed in simplified and elegant MXML source code. From this post you’ll take away an intro to Degrafa, how to dynamically modify [...]

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Merapi Update

It has been far too long since I’ve blogged about Merapi, so I thought I would share what’s up with the project. First off, the next release has been coming soon for far too long. That is my responsibility and I apologize to everyone that’s been waiting on the new build. However, there is good [...]

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The Brightkite Wall

In late 2008 Brightkite engaged Universal Mind to develop an application called The Brightkite Wall. The Wall is a Flash Application built using Flex. For those of you unfamiliar with Brightkite, here’s a quick overview: Brightkite is a location based, micro-blogging, social networking platform. Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last five [...]

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NASDAQ Market Replay Wins Global Adobe Award

Market Activity Replay Tool Wins the 2008 Adobe MAX Award in the Enterprise Category NEW YORK, Nov 26, 2008 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX News Network) — The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced that NASDAQ Market Replay — an extremely powerful replay and analysis tool — has won the coveted 2008 MAX Award in the [...]

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A New Backchannel For Live Events: The Brightkite Wall

Sarah Perez November 19th, 2008 Whenever there is a conference or event, there’s a secondary bit of action taking place behind the scenes: the backchannel. Here, the attendees are live blogging, twittering, posting photos, and streaming live video about what they’re seeing on stage or in and around the venue. Twitter has always been the microblogging platform of [...]

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Adobe MAX 2008

Monday, November 17th marks the official start to this year’s Adobe MAX conference. I wanted to give a quick update on where I’ll be and what I’ll be up to at MAX. So, here it is. First of all, at MAX you can follow me on Twitter or BrightKite my handle is “adamflater” on both. [...]

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Team Members Lead Sessions on Adobe Flex and ColdFusion and Participate in Discussion on the Future of RIA

What: Universal Mind, a leading solution provider of Rich Internet Applications, today announced two of its team members will        lead teaching seminars and one will participate in a panel        discussion at the Adobe MAX Conference North America 2008.        Rich Internet Applications are an important part of Web 2.0        deployments because they [...]

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EclipseWorld Session Recap

As promised in my session at EclipseWorld [No longer up] today, I’m posting a recap of the session. My session was titled “Building Flex/AIR UIs for Java Using Merapi”. The session gave an overview of Flex, Flex Builder, and Merapi. I also provided some sample application demos using the Merapi framework. You’ll find a link to [...]

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360 Flex | San Jose – Merapi Session Survery Feedback

To keep in the open tradition of 360 | Flex I’m posting my survey feedback once again. The Merapi session at 360 Flex | San Jose was really fun and was happy to share the stage with my friend Jordan Synder. There was one very constructive comment about our examples. The examples that I showed [...]

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