Category Archives: AIR

Flex – The good, the bad, and the future

Posted on November 12, 2011 by adamflater

I’ve been involved in the Flex community in some capacity now for over 4 years. Over the past week Adobe has made some major announcements concerning Flash and Flex. Some in the Flex community are clearly livid over what has … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, Flex, flash, user experience, ux | 8 Comments

Merapi is Open!

Posted on May 20, 2009 by adamflater

I was proud to announce with Andrew Powell today at 360 Flex | Indy, that Merapi is now officially open source. We’ve released the first public beta on Google Code as well as opened a Google Group. There is also … Continue reading →

Posted in 360 flex, AIR, Flex, merapi, open source | 5 Comments

Joining Roundarch / Merapi Positioning

Posted on May 4, 2009 by adamflater

On March 9th I began a new position in the role of Technical Architect and Evangelist at Roundarch. As I stated in my previous post, this was a difficult decision to make. Now that I’ve had a couple months of … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, Flex, merapi, roundarch | 2 Comments

Farewell to Universal Mind

Posted on March 7, 2009 by adamflater

After much deliberation, earlier this week I chose to step down from my position at Universal Mind. This was a difficult decision for me as UM has a unique collection of highly talented individuals that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed working with. … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, Flex, career | 6 Comments

Cairngorm Top 5 Tips – Number 3 – The Data Translator Pattern

Posted on February 2, 2009 by adamflater

Number 3 on my list of Cairngorm tips is the Data Translator pattern. I’d like to preface my explanation of the pattern with a discussion about web application domains. As Flex developers we’re often inclined to use server-side technologies like … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, Flex, Universal Mind, cairngorm, data translator pattern, mvc, um cairngorm extentions | 8 Comments

Typinator and Flex

Posted on January 28, 2009 by adamflater

My colleague Doug McCune sent out a link last week to a product called Typinator. Typinator is a tool for Mac OS that auto replaces character strings that are typed anywhere in Mac OS. In the videos below you will … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, Flex, Universal Mind, code formatting, templates, typinator | 1 Comment

Cairngorm Top 5 Tips – Number 4 – The EventGenerator

Posted on January 27, 2009 by adamflater

The last tip in this series was #5. The AnnounceFaultEvent (read more). and now for tip #4: The EventGenerator The EventGenerator class provides a mechanism for defining sets of Events to be dispatched either sequentially or in parallel. The EventGenerator … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, Flex, Universal Mind, cairngorm, eventgenerator, mvc, um cairngorm extentions | 9 Comments

Cairngorm Top 5 Tips – Number 5 – The AnnounceFaultEvent

Posted on January 26, 2009 by adamflater

Several months ago we had a Flex Frameworks roundup at our local Adobe User Group (RMAUG). I presented on the Universal Mind Extensions to Cairngorm and have since had a few requests for more info on the extensions. In this … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, Flex, Universal Mind, cairngorm, fault handling, mvc, um cairngorm extentions | 3 Comments

Dynamic, Persistent Skins with Degrafa

Posted on January 19, 2009 by adamflater

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, Degrafa, Flex, Universal Mind, dynamic skinning, skinning | Leave a comment

Merapi Update

Posted on January 12, 2009 by adamflater

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in 360flex, AIR, Flex, Universal Mind, cocomo, excel, flexcamp, java, merapi, outlook | 2 Comments