Last week, on a rainy afternoon, I was going through the Captivate user guide when I stumbled upon a small .ini file in the Gallery folder which I hadn’t actively used, or played around with if you will, before. Although the following functionality is a bit buggy at times, it ...

Everyone knows by now that variable binding is something that is constantly used in Flex and AIR applications. The simplest way of using this feature is making use of the [Bindable] metadata tag. However, there’s a second way that is commonly used and that is the <mx:Binding> tag. This one ...

I was looking for a way to set parameters more quickly to newly added childs and I found out something interestinging. (Note that this will not result in faster code execution, it's merely to type less :-). I did some testing for the performance, check it out at the bottom ...

You all probably use facebook. One of the features is that you can tag people in your photos. On roll over a small popup is shown with the name of your contact. Recently I was giving a course about dreamweaver CS4 and upon playing around with the (spry) tooltips and the ...

For those of you who don't know Ben Forta, he's the Adobe senior product evangelist and the author of numerous books about ColdFusion (nad other technologies). He's also the director of the evangelism team. Every once in a while you get the chance to meet with him at ...

Imagine a situation where you have a Flex application and you need to display a popup window in which an external application is doing something else with the same data. You don’ have control over the external application, but you know it is written in HTML and PHP. Imagine also ...

Just a little thing I found out today using Coldfusion 9 new ORM feature. Say you have a login system based on a user table, this can easily be done with orm. You just create a cfc where you define your database fileds as parameters and call the necessary orm ...

I developed a small flash component that keeps track of all the notifications (using my simple facade) that are send within your flash application. It will show you in a log format which notifications have been sent and also gives you an overview of which class is connected to ...

With the introduction of actionscript 3, one of the classes that came with a lot of new features is the Textfield class. To be more specific, we now have access to more information about the textfields content such as character, paragraphs and line metrics. The goal in this blog post ...

Recently I tried using Five3D in a pure AS3 project using flex builder 3. Everything went well upon compiling, it was nagging that it (FB) couldn't find the fl.motion.Color class. I looked into the Five3D code and it is indeed using the Color class to simulate basic shading. And actually that ...