Archive for January, 2008

Flex Tip 5: Using Runtime CSS

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

On large scale projects that will be deployed on more than just one location it is a constant need for re-skinning the application. This applies mostly to "embedding" projects, that is projects that will need to be integrated (embedded) into an already done site, with a custom template. First solution would ...

Flex Tip 4: Export Release Build (Flex Builder 3)

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

If you are creating new project in Flex Builder 3 you will notice that there is no "bin" folder where the .swf, .html and .js files are stored. Instead you get a "bin-debug" folder with the files. This is because Flex Builder 3 threats the project by default as a ...

Adobe AIR Revolution

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Adobe AIR, currently in beta stage, is a new software from Adobe that lets developers using HTML, Ajax, Flash and Flex build and deploy rich internet application on their own desktop. Although AIR finalization is in progress, there are many applications out there built on top of it, showing all ...

InsideRIA is out

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Adobe and O’Reilly are on the quest to build up the RIA community and they got a big start with the new site at InsideRIA.com. Browse this site to get information from any domain that it's involved in building a successful rich internet application, whether that is Design, Development or ...

Flex Tip 3: Using Namespaces

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Namespaces are used in ActionScript 3 to limit the scope of custom methods / properties / constants within classes. The most known namespaces are public, private, protected, internal thought you might know them not as namespaces but as keywords. Besides those you can create your custom namespace to use with ...

Flex Tip 2: Template Components

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Here's one of the old problems with the Flex Framework. Templates are not natively supported in Flex but there is one way you can do templates on custom components. Lets say we want multiple panels inside the application that look the same, each one has a header with a title and ...

Flex Tip 1: Private Class Constructor and Singleton

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Currently, ActionScript doesn't have support for private class constructors thus any class's constructor can be accessed. But there are times when you'll want your class to be instantiated just one time, meaning its constructor called just one time. This relates to the Singleton Pattern where a class is globally accessible ...

Flex Tips on their way

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

As i work all day long with Flex Framework, using and extending it to achieve some great projects i thought of posting tips and tricks to help developers get around issues they encounter. You'll be seeing pieces of code (once i get the code plugin to work :D ), ...

StreamingBASE solution for Web Conferencing

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

One of the streaming services available at StreamingBASE is Live, the solution for Web Conferencing, Online Events, Meetings, Courses and much more. Fully scalable and customizable it can be used in almost any successful business running today whether that is IT, Education, Real Estate, Health, Consulting or any other business. ...

Apple MacBook AIR is in town

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

No more rumors, what was in the AIR its not a propeller iPod, its the new MackBook AIR. "MacBook Air is ultrathin, ultraportable, and ultra unlike anything else. But you don’t lose inches and pounds overnight. It’s the result of rethinking conventions. Of multiple wireless innovations. And of breakthrough design. With ...

Cairngorm vs PureMVC

Monday, January 14th, 2008

As ActionScript gone into a fully fledged object oriented programming language, there are many frameworks out there developed or in development on top of AS 3. Two of the most known are Cairngorm from Adobe Consulting and PureMVC from Futurescale. Both of them are build on top of Model-View-Controller architecture but ...

Taking BlazeDS in count for Live

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

As you probably know, BlazeDS, the server-based Java remoting and web messaging technology from Adobe Labs will be available open-sourced. Now what this technology enables is connecting to back-end data and push data in real time to Adobe® Flex™ and Adobe AIR™ application. Right now StreamingBASE solution for web conferencing, online ...

Spell checking for Flex / Flash / AIR

Friday, January 11th, 2008

New cool component from Grant Skinner to spell check you text inside a Flex / AIR application. Usability ? Endless, any application that uses a text input / text area would benefit from such a component.Details about the component and some demos here. Right now there are some licenses and fees involved. And watch out ...

BlinkoTV - Free IPTV Software from EyePartner

Friday, January 11th, 2008

img.imgStyle { padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;} li.liStyle{ word-spacing: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.25em; padding-bottom: 0.5em } Did you ever watched a video on the internet ? How about a TV channel ? How about broadcasting a TV channel ? Either way you put it, BlinkoTV has ...

Adobe celebrates 25th anniversary

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

As 50% from our business here at EyePartner consists in Adobe platform solutions i cant let this event without notice. Right now anyone around it can feel the rush, the excitement that Adobe is getting into the market with it's new products, from Creative Suite to Enterprise Suite, Flex, AIR, FMS. Over ...

Here we go…

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

What did you think? That i cant start my own blog? Well here it finally comes. I'm a partner at the firm of EyePartner as software developer focusing on Adobe's technologies like Flex, AIR and LiveCycle doing some cool projects like StreamingBASE, KuleBLU and many others that i will detail in ...