Archive for March, 2008

Adobe AIR released for Linux

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Adobe AIR becomes truly cross platform with the release of Linux version on Adobe Labs. AIR 1.0 is available for Windows and Mac OS since last year, the Linux version was delayed due to core Flash Player issues on Linux platform. Starting today Linux developers out there can take the Adobe ...

Adobe Photoshop Express Released

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Adobe Photoshop Express was released today as a public beta. Adobe Photoshop Express is a free online Rich Internet Application aiming at storing and editing digital photos, taking the online image editing a step further. You can apply all sorts of cool effects like distort, sketch, tint, hue to you ...

Flex Tip 7: Using Deferred Instantiation

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

When you are using MXML containers and declare the children as MXML tags inside the component, there is a possibility to not load all child components at instantiation, possibility known as "deferred instantiation". That is, the instantiation is deferred by an amount of time depending on creationPolicy property of Container ...

Adobe Developer Week

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

If you didn't know, from March 24 to March 28 there is Adobe Developer Week, week that consists of 20 events covering all development areas including AIR, Flex, Flash, Mobile, ColdFusion and Dreamweaver. All events will be hosted on Adobe Connect sessions and if you miss the live ones don't ...

Flex Tip 6: Garbage Collection in Flex

Monday, March 17th, 2008

One of the hot-spots in Flash platform is related to memory, how is it distributed inside the runtime environment, memory leaks and of course garbage collection. The way that memory allocation takes place inside Flash is by instantiation, every time a new Object is created, a memory block is created ...