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Tag people in your pictures using dreamweaver CS4

Alwyn / February 2, 2010 / 3 comments

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 image maps, the students [...]

Category: Dreamweaver, HTML / Tags: Dreamweaver, Spry

How does Flex know an HTML popup has been closed?

Steven / January 19, 2010 / 4 comments

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 that your Flex application needs [...]

Category: ActionScript 3, Flex, HTML, LiveCycle Data Services / Tags: communicate, notify, popup close, RTMP, server push

Cross browser testing just got easier

Steven / June 3, 2009 / No comments

I just discovered a new service from Adobe regarding website development and design. For those of you that are into this, you all know what a hastle it can be to make a plain HTML and CSS website look fine on all the different platforms and all the different operating systems. Internet Explorer is definitely [...]

Category: CSS, HTML / Tags: cross browser, cross platform, CSS, HTML, testing

Meanwhile, on the blog

Flex 4 – Controlling a custom component’s skin states

December 28, 2011

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 [...]

Do Flex and LiveCycle still have a future?

December 20, 2011

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 [...]

I’ll be speaking at gotoAndSki();

October 27, 2011

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 [...]

Using binding expressions in ColdFusion 9

September 6, 2011

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

July 13, 2011

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 [...]

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Archive for HTML

Tag people in your pictures using dreamweaver CS4

How does Flex know an HTML popup has been closed?

Cross browser testing just got easier

Meanwhile, on the blog