Category: Flex

102 posts

Flex scrapblog

by kai on 30/03/2007

Did you enjoy making scrapbooks when you were young? Is your wife/girlfriend/mum/granny doing scrapbooks all the time?

Have a look at this cool Flex application that has been released just recently: scrapblog.com. Apparently a local NZ development studio up in Auckland is heavily involved ;)

Launching NZFXUG - New Zealand Flex User Group

by kai on 01/03/2007

drumsticks... We're proud to present the New Zealand Flex User Group. Our site has gone live just right now - there's not a lot content but that will change during the next few days. This User Group was founded by Campbell Anderson, Ross Phillips and myself and it should become the first point of contact for Flex developers in NZ. We're going to hold regular meetings in Wellington and Auckland…

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Flex transparency in HTML pages

by kai on 15/02/2007

Just in case there are some more Flex developers out there who haven't spent the last 5+ yrs coding Flash apps ;)... To get a fill transparency of your Flex app sitting in an HTML page, backgroundAlpha is not enough. You also need to set the wmode attribute of the object/embed tag you're using to place the swf on your page. Don't forget to do that also in any JS code you might use to embed the…

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Flex 2 Rich Text Editors (grrr...)

by kai on 13/02/2007

In one of my current Flex projects we need to capture formatted user input that has to be displayed in the Flex application. Well, as you might know the Flash Player is somewhat limited in its HTML capabilities, so it turned out to be some sort of an interesting situation to find a rich text HTML editor that could be stripped down to create "evil" Flash-compatibel HTML formatting - usually it's…

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Flex Data Services on OSX

by kai on 12/02/2007

Earlier today I was having a chat with Toby about how to install Flex Data Services on (officially not supported) Mac OSX. Well - with not owning a Mac myself but knowing that CF runs fine on top of JRun on Mac OSX - I immediately thought of a similar solution: Why not grabbing an .ear or .war file containing FDS that was created on Windows or somewhere else and deploying it on the Mac OSX…

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Bruce Eckel on Flex

by kai on 07/02/2007

I've just came across a recent blog post of Bruce Eckel (he is the guy who wrote the famous Java book "Thinking in Java") on Rich Client Technologies. It is a very good read - not just because he says good things about Flex. It's a very good read in particular because he is totally right in his points: Neither Java nor AJAX can really provide that type of easy-to-install and easy-to-manage Rich…

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MAX 2006 Korea - new products...

by kai on 16/11/2006

The exhibition area of the MAX 2006 Korea was obviously way smaller than the exhibition area of MAX USA. But still - I've seen a few very interesting products for Flex 2 and nice mobile stuff. Too bad that CDMA is so strong in Korea, I would have loved to get myself a new phone over there. I'll talk about the new Flex stuff tomorrow or so - have to get some sleep now, bloody time difference!

A framework for Java Swing

by kai on 11/11/2006

I've just finished reading a highly interesting interview/article and thought I'd share it. It's about Java Swing (a common class library for developing Java client/server applications) and it's lack of a proper application development framework. I've had a chat about exactly that with some guys at our local Java User Group the other months and while discussing their issues, I couldn't help…

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Styling Flex 2 applications

by kai on 11/11/2006

Last week I've presented at a user group meeting of CFUG Auckland via Breeze. We've got a pretty good turnout in terms of different domestc cities tuning in remotely as well.

The topic was "Styling Flex 2 applications", David has made the recording available on http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p24244278/.

Effects Explorer link fixed...

by kai on 25/10/2006

Sorry for the linking issues, should work now. It's also linked from the right column of the starting page now.

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