Category Archives: Flex

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 →

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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

The Brightkite Wall

Posted on January 5, 2009 by adamflater

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, … Continue reading →

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Adobe MAX 2008

Posted on November 12, 2008 by adamflater

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 … Continue reading →

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EclipseWorld Session Recap

Posted on October 29, 2008 by adamflater

As promised in my session at EclipseWorld 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 … Continue reading →

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360 Flex | San Jose – Merapi Session Survery Feedback

Posted on September 19, 2008 by adamflater

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 … Continue reading →

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New Universal Mind Web Site is Live!

Posted on August 31, 2008 by adamflater

We launched our new Universal Mind web site today. You can find the site at: www.universalmind.com. As far as I know, we are the first major Flex centric services company to release a site using Flex technology. This site was … Continue reading →

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Recap from 360 Flex | San Jose

Posted on August 19, 2008 by adamflater

Coming at you from sunny San Jose, California at the eBay campus… Yesterday at 360 Flex I presented a session on Merapi and moderated a panel discussion on open source technology. At the Merapi session we discussed the focus of … Continue reading →

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