Category: Flex

102 posts

Flex non-commercial license

by kai on 12/01/2005

Yoohoo, I got my Flex non-commercial license finally. It has been in the mail already yesterday but I wasn't at home when UPS tried to deliver it. So it arrived today in the office where I will pick it up later that week as was there today and won't be in there tomorrow. I already know what the first app for bloginblack.de will be, and I have several other demos I'm going to show here - now that…

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News from Xamlon...

by kai on 06/10/2004

October 2004 seems to become the most interesting month for all available and expected XML-based rich client technologies: Kudos to Artur for this in flex-discussion... Xamlon provides Xamlon Professional 1.0 now, a tool which supprts Microsofts XAML already now to build Windows applications. I didn't dig into it further up to now, but they promise to offer updates to the tool with the…

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openlaszlo...

by kai on 06/10/2004

Laszlo systems announced that their rich internet server LPS is going to be open source from now on. As they announced it on October, 4th, it's interesting to notice how things might be connected with the non-commercial license of Flex. A lot of people blogged about this over the last two days already, so I don't want to dig into details. Let me just note that - not concerning Laszlos motivation…

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Flex Non-Commercial License

by kai on 05/10/2004

This is great! Macromedia finally did it and just announced a Flex Non-Commercial/Non-institutional deployment license! Quick highlights: - if you intend to use Flex in a non-commercial and non-institutional manner like for educational purposes, community web pages, weblogs, students at schools and universities - you might qualify for this license - you'll get a package of software which you are…

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Certified Flex Instructor

by kai on 24/09/2004

I'm a Macromedia Certified Flex Instructor now. After working with the class materials - by the way: the class is called "Developing Rich Internet Applications with Macromedia Flex" and it's a 3-day class - I'm very happy with it. It's a great course and it will give the students a brilliant introduction into Flex development models. Want to take a class with me? I'm still trying to separate this…

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New Flex DevNet Content

by kai on 12/09/2004

There are several new articles and tutorials online - excellent stuff:

Flex Sample App: Building the Restaurant Finder

Using Macromedia Flex in a Portal Environment

Working with Macromedia Flex Components

German Flex DevTalk series recordings

by kai on 17/08/2004

Season one of the German Flex DevTalk series is done now ;)

The links to the Breeze live recordings are available in Sven Claars blog where you will also get the example files:

Session 1-3
Session 4

Flex Updater 2

by kai on 18/07/2004

Macromedia provides an updater 2 for Flex which seems to make to product even better. Put it on your download list for Monday mornings traffic orgy ;)

Flex Trace Panel 1.1 + Starter

by kai on 30/06/2004

Some weeks ago Dirk released version 1.1 of his Flex Trace Panel. This morning, I forced him ;-) into delivering a wrapper application so that the panel stays on top of the desktop all the time - which is very helpful during development.

You could download the wrapper here and Dirk posted some instructions around it in his blog.