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RIA Radio Episode 2 - Jonnie Hallman

2009-11-12T16:14:49Z

Jonnie Hallman (Destroy Today) joins us to talk about his new position at Adobe on the XDCE team and his involvement with the MAX Twitter app. We also were able to hear the back story to DestroyFlickr and DestroyTwitter, and some news about upcoming features.

"Eager Loading" in Actionscript 3

2009-11-11T18:30:44Z

Last week, I wrote about the Lazy Loading design pattern. There's not much written about its opposite, Eager Loading, in ActionScript 3. The reason for this is simple–true eager loading can't be done in AS3 itself, it has to be...

QOW: What would you build?

2009-11-10T14:00:00Z

Question of the week: Time to dream a little. If you had an unlimited budget and unlimited resources what application would you build and why would you build it? Please leave comments....

Why the Adobe/RIM announcement is important

2009-11-09T21:33:20Z

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen was at RIM's annual BlackBerry developer convention today with some exciting news about the ways that Adobe and RIM are working together to bring great experiences to the BlackBerry. In this entry we'll discuss what the announcement contained and why it's important to you.

5 Tips For Flash Unit Testing

2009-11-09T14:00:00Z

Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. In this AFT I will go over 5 Tips for Unit Testing. Unit Testing and Test Driven Development are a hot topics in the Flash community lately, especially on Twitter. A few weeks ago, after realizing how complex my F*CSS library was getting, I decided to go back and write FlexUnit test for the library in a hope to use TDD moving forward.

RIA Radio MAX Interviews - Chuck Freedman, Mike Chambers, Craig Goodman, and Greg Wilson

2009-11-09T13:18:46Z

At Adobe MAX, the RIA Radio crew sat down with Chuck Freedman, Mike Chambers, Craig Goodman, and Greg Wilson.

Barcode Scanner Support for Flex

2009-11-06T14:00:00Z

I recently came across an interesting problem when we had to access barcode scanners from Flex applications. The scanners came in different models but all were connected to the computer via serial port or USB (Serial2USB). Now, how do you...

Flex 101: Creating an Interactive Chart

2009-11-06T02:34:29Z

In this post, we will walk through the steps to create an interactive chart with a Google-Finance-esque interaction. Before we get to far into the details, let's take a look at the final product. The top chart is a line chart showing a subset of data from the greater data set. The chart on the bottom is a representation of the entire data set. You can adjust the slider on the bottom to change the granularity and scope of the data represented in the top line chart.

eSeminar: Flash Mobile development opportunities on different platforms and new tools

2009-11-05T20:00:00Z

The Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group is holding an eSeminar on Friday 13th November at 12 PM EST. Speaker for this eSeminar is Mark Doherty from Adobe, we will have the opportunity to know more information about Flash...

jQuery and AIR - Moving from web page to application (3)

2009-11-05T02:34:09Z

The third part of my series on creating a jQuery AIR game - Hangman. In this entry I discuss some architecture changes I made to the JavaScript and some new database support.

Using Flash Remoting for Authentication to your AFCS/Facebook AIR Application

2009-11-03T18:00:00Z

If you have had an opportunity to look at the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service (AFCS) you could see that there is a huge opportunity to do interesting multi-user applications without needing to write all of the server side code. However there is the challenge of how do you control who comes into your application and what they are allowed to do. In addition, keeping your application credentials safe in case your SWF file was decompiled. So as the title suggests you can use a service like Facebook to take care of the users authentication and Flash Remoting for the application authentication.

5 Tips For Documenting Code

2009-11-02T17:00:00Z

Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. In this AFT I will go over - 5 Tips for Documenting Code. Documenting code is not high on many people's lists of things todo. Most of the time it is boring, repetitive, and time consuming. If you want to get better at documenting your own code then this is the post for you. I have 5 simple rules to follow while coding to make the process easier.

A summary for Flash 10.1, Flash Mobile, Flash on iPhone, Air Mobile

2009-11-02T14:00:00Z

Here is a summary for Flash Mobile support and development that I put together from various sources: Flash 10.1: supports mobile features and capabilities. Runs both AS3 and AS2 code. Flash 10.1 will be a browser plugin. Flash 10.1 &...

What feature do you use most on your mobile phone?

2009-11-02T00:34:57Z

With all of this talk lately about the Flash Player coming to mobile, I thought I would ask a very simple question. What feature do you use most on your mobile phone? Please take part in this poll.

Advantages of Lazy Loading

2009-10-31T20:37:15Z

Wikipedia defines Lazy Loading as "a design pattern commonly used in computer programming to defer initialization of an object until the point at which it is needed." Typically, we do this to make an RIA application more responsive–since we're not...