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 [...]
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Congratz to the new and renewed ACCs and ACPs
Today Adobe announced their new list of Adobe Community Professionals for 2011. And of course I am very happy to be part of this small community. But next to that list, they have launched a new list, namely the Adobe Community Champions. For those of you who don’t know what these lists are or who [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, AIR, Audition 3, Captivate, ColdFusion, Connect, Dreamweaver, Flash, Flex, LiveCycle Data Services, Mobile /
Tags: Adobe Community Champions, Adobe Community Professional
Drawing charts in a Flex 4.5 mobile application
So, I started working on my first AIR on Android application that’s on the Android market. It’s called SolarLogger and it’s a small application that allows you to monitor your solar panel installation using a SolarLog device. If you’ve been here a while ago, you may remember that I had such a solarlogger component in [...]
Adding swipe gestures to your mobile Flex application
With the Flex 4.5 SDK (aka Hero) you can now create some very nifty mobile applications to run on Android enabled devices as well as on the BlackBerry PlayBook. Now, one of the features you’ll use on any touch enabled device is the swipe gesture. You can use this gesture to move things around or [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, AIR, Flex, Mobile /
Tags: Flex Hero, gestures, swipe, touch screen, TransformGestureEvent
Changing the registration point in a Flex app
You know, when you work in Flash professional and you’re creating a symbol for example (or a movieclip all together) you can set the registration point to almost whatever you want. However, in Flex you don’t have that liberty. Now this poses a problem when you have an application that uses an image, for example, [...]
The 46.5 centimeter reason why I didn’t make it to MAX 2010
Everyone who’s been following me on twitter was notified in advance that I wouldn’t be able to make it to Adobe MAX 2010 and I had a very good reason for that. Well now, this morning at 1:40AM my beautiful wife gave birth to our third son Yantis. Mother and son are both doing excellent. [...]
Sneak-peak to my session at Adobe MAX 2010
Adobe MAX 2010 is less than 2 months away and while I’m in full preparation for my lab sessions I though I’d give a small teaser about what you can expect from it. The lab I’m doing is going to be about the designer-developer workflow topic, which has become quite hot since Flash Catalyst has [...]
Category: Conference, Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst, Flex /
Tags: Adobe MAX, designer, developer, LA, Los Angeles
Next CFUGBE event: Using ColdFusion in the real world, 7 Sept 2010, Mechelen
For this event the ColdFusion User Group is working together with Ordina, who have been kind enough to let us use their facilities that are located right next to the E19 highway in Mechelen. As for the topics of this event, we have found a community member to come over and share their history in [...]
Win a free MAX2010 entrance pass
Hi everyone, Just as last year, Adobe is issuing a referral program. This allows you to win a free MAX2010 entrance ticket. Now how does it work? Well, there are 2 options you can choose from. Either you let others refer to your name when they book their entrance pass and when you have been [...]
