When I originally submitted two topics for Web Maniacs a few months ago I figured I might end up presenting one of them. Now I’m doing four. In order of appearance: 9a, Wed: Advanced Skinning and Component Development This session will actually be more about skinning and less about component development. After presenting this topic [...]
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As many of you know I’ve been co-writing a series on the O’Reilly site www.insideria.com with my friend Scott Sheridan called Learning Flex from Scratch. A big thanks to Rich Tretola for having us on as a part of Inside RIA. When we started the series Scott had no experience as a programmer. His academic background is in [...]
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The latest post in the Learning Flex from Scratch series is up. This post continues exploring the MXML language and leaves you with a uncompleted application to finish. The first “homework assignment” of LFFS, if you will. Check back next week for explanation of the solution Scott came up with. thanks for reading -adam
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I’ve been getting a lot of e-mails from people regarding Merapi lately. So, I thought it’d be a good idea to put together a “Hello World” screen cast. In the video below you’ll see a very simple use case of the framework: An AIR application that connects to Merapi on startup and receives a String [...]
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The latest post in the Learning Flex from Scratch series is up. It focuses on the online resources Scott has found useful while learning Flex. We’ll be doing more of these posts as the series continues, but you can also check out the del.icio.us account that Scott setup for LFFS. Here you will find the [...]
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Apart from the Learning Flex From Scratch series I’ll be doing some guest blogging on my own from time-to-time. My first post is on 360|Flex San Jose. Thanks to Rich for making me a two time Inside RIA guest blogger.
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Looks like I forgot to do a post announcing LFFS 5 and now 6 is out as well. In LFFS 5 Scotty is taking us into the world of ActionScript loops and conditionals. Need a beginners look at a for, for in, for in each, while, or do while loop? Look no further than LFFS. [...]
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Our latest post in the Inside RIA series “Learning Flex from Scratch” is up. It’s called: LFFS – 4: Actionscript 3.0. In this post Scott begins his journey into the syntax of Actionscript 3.0. This first post is a look at how to write a basic class… posts will follow with examples on writing loops, [...]
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I thought I’d mirror Tom and John’s style of being transparent about 360|Flex and share the survey results of my talk. Thanks to everyone that gave feedback. I’ll be giving a 2.0 version of this talk at Flex Maniacs in May and feedback from attendees is really helpful to know what to polish. If you [...]
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