The new Flex 4 skinning architecture makes it easier for developers to completely change the look and feel of an application, while providing better separation between components and their skins. In this blogpost, by using FXG and the new states syntax, we’ll write a basic MXML skin that reflects it’s hostcomponent states. For those of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As a developer, once in a while you discover something new that makes you go ”How come nobody ever told me about this and why do I only find this out NOW ? ” Last year, when I discovered that a Function in AS3 is also a class and can be used as a a [...]
Sometimes when you are experimenting around with flash, you’ll notice that things can get a little laggy when you put too many things on the stage and try to move them around at the same time. The Display List is a very fast and easy way to handle the way things are displayed on the [...]
Wake up and breathe the fresh air (pun intented)! Flash builder 4.5 is released and I have to say it’s a great release. And I’m not just talking about the move towards mobile but more about the small things that make a hardened flash programmer just a little bit happier. Did Adobe finally meet the [...]
Last week I was playing around with visualizing music in flash (follow post) and of course you want to share that with the rest of the interwebs. Now I am aware that some people don’t share my musical preference so I decided to pull the example with my personal songs from the site and implement [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
