Category Archives: Flex

Huge Adobe Partnership to Open Source Flex with Apache Software Foundation …

Posted on December 14, 2011 by adamflater

… Could have been the title of this post 3 months ago. Given the recent layoffs and announcements in the past few weeks, it may seem short sighted to be overly excited faced with this news today. This was, however, … Continue reading →

Posted in Flex, flex 3, flex 4, html5, open source | 38 Comments

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

Flash and the City is this week!

Posted on May 10, 2010 by adamflater

This week, I’ll be at Flash and the City (FATC) in downtown Manhattan, a conference designed to give people the opportunity to attend sessions with industry experts in Flash, Flex, ColdFusion, mobile, and UX design—all while exploring world-famous sites throughout … Continue reading →

Posted in Flex, blend, catalyst, fatc, flash, ria | 1 Comment

Flash Camp Chicago – Building RIAs with Style Resources

Posted on February 26, 2010 by adamflater

As promised, here are the links that were referenced in my talk. Vector Graphics – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphicsRaster Graphics – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_graphics F*CSS Site – http://fcss.flashartofwar.comSource – http://github.com/theflashbum/fcssQuick start – http://fcss.flashartofwar.com/quick-start-guide Jesse Freeman – @theflashbumhttp://flashartofwar.com/ FlexFormatter http://sourceforge.net/projects/flexformatter/http://flexformatter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/FlexFormatter/FlexPrettyPrintCommandUpdateSite/ (Eclipse software update URL) Thanks to … Continue reading →

Posted in Flex, Silverlight, f*css, flash, flash camp, styling | 2 Comments

New to flexlib: CSSPropertyInjector

Posted on September 14, 2009 by adamflater

As my first contribution to flexlib I’ve been developing a utility class called “CSSPropertyInjector“. The CSSPropertyInjector class is used to apply styles from CSS to an Object that has properties that are not stylable or on Objects that are generally … Continue reading →

Posted in Degrafa, Flex, css, flex 3, flex 4, flex charts, flexlib, fxg | 7 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