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InsideRIA Post – More on Static Code

I have a new post up on InsideRIA called : More on Static Code. This is in response to the high demand that I saw in my blog analytics for a post I did sometime back on this blog called Static Code Blocks in ActionScript!. I hope you find it helpful. -adam Original post from: http://www.developria.com/2008/05/more-on-static-code.html [...]

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Web Maniacs 2008

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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Need Opinions on LFFS

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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LFFS – 9 – MXML Continued… And A Sample Application For You To Work With!

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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Merapi is churning… out comes “Hello World”

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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LFFS – 7: Helpful Resources For Learning Flex (part one)

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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LFFS – 4: Actionscript 3.0 (Part 1)

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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