Category: Flex

102 posts

Speaking at Flash Platform User Group Wellington (New Zealand)

by kai on 05/02/2010

After the XMas break is now finally over and summer has arrived in Wellington, we're starting the monthly meetings of the Flash Platform User Group again. Actually we were known as the Flex User Group but went through a bit of self-finding and re-branding and the outcome is a broader focus on the overall Flash Platform. That also includes Flash, AIR, Flash Catalyst and associated things like the…

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Adobe Refresh in Asia Pacific

by kai on 01/02/2010

This is just a quick reminder that Adobe is running a series of Refresh events across Asia Pacific in February. Perth and Sydney are apparently booked out resp. very close to being booked out - but there are places left for Brisbane, Melbourne and Auckland. --- snip --- Join Adobe in a dynamic live presentation to REFRESH your understanding of the most recent initiatives in the areas of content…

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Why Air New Zealand is the Airline of the Year!

by kai on 25/01/2010

Air New Zealand (short Air NZ from here on) - my home turf airline - has recently been named Airline of the Year in the Air Transport World magazine awards. There are plenty of reasons why they absolutely have deserved to win this award. Plenty, really! Lance Wiggs has listed a few of those from his point of view and I couldn't agree more (Make sure you read it, Lance's post is really interesting…

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OS X quick look for Flex

by kai on 23/01/2010

A few days ago I posted about using qlcolorcode to display syntax highlighted ColdFusion code in Mac OS X's Finder's quick look. Now - I had a bit of a look into how to use/extend the same plugin for displaying Action Script and MXML code as well. Qlcolorcode already has built-in support for Action Script (although it's not complete and really 100% correct for AS3 as it appears to me), but it's…

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Pilots have to sit here :-)

by kai on 24/12/2008

This is going to be one of the last entries for this year, I suppose. It's a funny one, but also at least somewhat related to Flash and Flex *g* Air New Zealand have recently rebuilt their Frequent Flyer portal using Flex. That's cool in general, I don't like the way how particular things have been done and are integrated with the site, but I understand they apparently had to push it out and are…

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Flex User Group in Berlin: First meeting

by kai on 15/07/2008

I wanted to blog this for quite a while but didn't get to it: There's a new Flex User Group in Berlin, Germany. I'd like to mention it here for three reasons - I've met Bettina Schulz, who has founded the group, just recently at the webinale conference in Karlsruhe, Germany and encouraged her to do it. So - great to see it fly. The other reason is that Bettina approached Flex from a significantly…

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Public Flex 3 class in Wellington, NZ

by kai on 21/04/2008

My company (Ventego Creative) is running a Flex 3 training class later in May in Wellington, NZ. You might ask yourself what's so special about it? Well, it doesn't happen too often that we're doing this in New Zealand, so I thought it's worth being mentioned. We're offering "Flex 3: Developing Rich Client Applications" which is the three day introductory class to rich application development…

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AIR and FB3 for Linux Updates

by kai on 01/04/2008

Adobe has released a new build (alpha3) of Flex Builder for Linux just recently. Also - there's a public alpha of Adobe AIR for Linux now, awesome.

Photoshop in your browser

by kai on 27/03/2008

Very cool - Photoshop Express is now available in public beta. Check it out, lots of fun and it also comes with 2 GB of storage space and a sharing URL (i.e. xyz.photoshop.com). It's obviously not as powerful as a full Photoshop installation on your machine, but it does very well for a lot of photo manipulation tasks one would want to do ad-hoc for private images, fun shots etc. I'll be giving it a test try and we'll see if it could replace Flickr at some point in the future :)

Good use of Flash Video: knickerpicker.com

by kai on 25/03/2008

Don't blame me for being sexist please, but KnickerPicker has a very well done showcase of using Flash/FlashVideo for online product recommendation and guided shopping. If you click through to the online dressing room you can actually control/command a video-based model to show off...well...yeah...lingerie - sorry. It's just about the technology though, really! Why I think it's great - besides…

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