I’ve been quiet for quite some time now. There are 2 reasons for that. The first one is simply because I have been busy on a couple of projects and just didn’t find the time to write another blog post. The second reason is that I wanted to wait and see what would happen with [...]
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I’ll be speaking at gotoAndSki();
Tonight I got one of the “coolest” emails you can get: I’ve been invited to give a session at gotoAndSki(); Switzerland on January 26th, 27th and 28th, 2012, which is really awesome. Unfortunately I haven’t been to this conference before, but I’ve heard very nice things about it and let’s face it, skiing during the [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, AIR, ColdFusion, Conference, Flex, Mobile /
Tags: conference, gotoAndSki, Switzerland
Using binding expressions in ColdFusion 9
As a longtime Flex developer I’ve always been used to having binding expressions to do one or more of the following things: Bind the value of one input field to a data model Bind the value from a data model to an input field or label Bind the value of one input field to a [...]
Creating a custom required RadioButtonGroup Validator class in Flex
Today I was discussing the Validator classes on the Adobe prerelease forum with a couple of other Flex developers. The Flex Validator classes are pretty good for some basic validation and give you a fly-over error message (which you can customize) and a red component outline when the validation fails. Now, the problem with these [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, Flash Builder, Flex /
Tags: custom, RadioButton, RaioButtonGroup, validator
No more hacking PlayBook AIR apps
Yesterday I received yet another monstrous update for the BlackBerry PlayBook. While on the one hand it is awesome that BlackBerry are investing so much time and effort to make things better, but a 250MB update every 2 weeks or so is a little too much for my taste. So far, I was quite happy [...]
Putting a Flex Mobile app on the PlayBook
As I’ve mentioned in my previous blog post, I’ve finally gotten hold of my free BlackBerry Playbook, so I started playing around with it. First impressions were quite good. Even my wife is interested in this device, which sounds great, but will probably mean I’ll have to kindly ask here to borrow it if I [...]
Category: BlackBerry, Flash Builder, Flex, Mobile /
Tags: BlackBerry, compile, deploy, Flex Mobile, Playbook
Detecting the network connection type with Flex 4.5
As you may already be aware of, Flex 4.5 is the next version of Flex that is also optimised for mobile development. That means that you can create compelling Rich Internet Applications with the Flex framework and deploy them on mobile Android devices, as well as the BlackBerry PlayBook (and iOS devices in the near [...]
Creating a Flex theme with Flash Catalyst
In my book Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst; the new workflow I talk about different workflows for the different types of applications. These workflows are all good when creating a single application. But isn’t there something you could do for improving reusability of your design elements and collaborating more easily? First thing to do, and [...]
“Molehill” 3D Flash API is available in public beta
So, now it’s finally here, the moment we’ve all been waiting for for quite some time now: Molehill has launched in a public beta version. You can download it from the brand new Incubator subsite on labs.adobe.com. Wait, what? Molehill, Incubator? What are you talking about? Allright, so you don’t know about the Molehill codename [...]
Fiddling with Phidgets at Flash Israel
A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to be invited to present at Flash Israel on February 22-23. There were a lot of topics I could choose from, but looking at the list of speakers that were already selected, such as Ben Forta, Lee Brimelow, Grant Skinner, … I knew I had to [...]
