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How To Get an Adobe Certification 2008-07-02 22:20:22 Some times ago I started to get interested to get an AdobeCertification
. I started reading documents on Adobe’s website and started to ask people at Adobe and community people that already got some certifications. This is what I found…
Available Certifications
There are 3 (three) types of certifications:
per product certification: Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified [...]
Flex 4 Codename Gumbo Under Development 2008-07-02 03:02:13 The Flex 3 is already released but the guys at Adobe don’t waste their time. They already started to work on Flex 4 - codename Gumbo
. The final release is planned for 2009 and the first beta for late 2008.
The promises are:
easy skinning
improved states, effects and layout
backward compatibility
inline states
For more see these links:
+4
+States+Syntax Read more:Development
Google And Yahoo! Are Indexing SWF Files 2008-07-01 05:40:36 This is a great news! I’ve been waiting for this to happen for a long time. If you don’t believe me that Google
is indexing flash try to search on Google by this kind of phrases: “flex filetype:swf“; and you’ll get a list of SWF files that were indexed by Google.
How does Google do this? [...] Read more:Yahoo
, Indexing
MatrixGrid Component - Extending The DataGrid 2008-06-30 05:49:53 MatrixGrid is a complex component I made that displays a bi-dimensional array and gives the possibility to change its values using combo boxes. These are the changes you can do:
change one single item
change one row at once
change one column at once
The MatrixGrid component receives for objects:
array with the possible values in each combo box
the [...] Read more:Component
Another FXG meeting 2008-07-28 09:32:35 Friday, 25th of July 2008, we had another Romanian Flex User Group meeting
. We did meet in a pub, the atmosphere was relaxed. We spoke about Flex/AIR applications, future ones and released ones, and we also spoke about Fx{r} and how can we improve it.
Andrei a.k.a webdev.andrei
Cristi & Patric - future new members
It is about [...]
How To Create a Wildcard Filename Search 2008-08-07 22:00:20 This article will explain how to create a wildcard search. What I mean is the following:
dir *.*
or
dir myfile??.txt
The old DOS searching way. The first command (if you’ll run them in Command Prompt) returns all files with extension from the current folder. The second command will return any file having its name as this: [...] Read more:Wildcard
, Search
How To Escape All Regexp Special Chars 2008-08-07 11:06:50 This is a very helpful piece of code. Function to escape all regular expression special chars. I came to this string having this order of characters by trial and error. So now you can use it easily by copy and paste.
What is important to know that MXML and Actionscript compiler do automatically escapes backslashes (”\”) [...] Read more:Escape
, Special
Adobe TV 2008-08-06 21:15:59 Few days ago I found out about Adobe
TV website which you may already know about. This site is about Adobe’s technologies explained using videos. Photographers, designers, video professionals and developers can use this to learn about Adobe’s products and technologies. There are lots and lots of presentations and tutorials regarding Flex, AIR, LiveCycle and [...]
HTML Editor in Flex? 2008-08-06 14:00:09 HTML Editor
in Flex? Can we say that squarespace has managed to do that? Although isn’t a complex one it is a start. What is next? We can think that in the future Dreamweaver may become a web RIA. Or some other HTML Editors will be created using Flex and AIR.
For some developers this sounds [...]
Flex Won “Best of Open Source Developer Tools” 2008-08-06 07:26:05 This month, Best of Open Source
Software Awards 2008 had ended and Flex has won “Best of Open Source DeveloperTools
” (see here)! This means that Flex framework is becoming more mature and is starting to be wide spread.
More and more web applications are built using Flex and Actionscript, more complex, more user friendly and [...]
How To Use Yahoo! Maps in Flex 2008-08-04 06:55:46 This article will explain how to integrate the Yahoo
! Maps into your Flex application. Is important to know that in this we are using Flex Builder 3 and that the example and the code won’t work in Flex Builder 2 (it seems that in Flex Builder 2 there are some compiling problems with the SWC [...]
Some Stats About Flash Player and Browsers 2008-07-31 17:25:41 Some interesting stats where published by Adobe:
99% of internet users do have Flash
Player on their machine (98,8% from Google study)
80% of internet users do have Flash Player version 9.0.115 on their machines
99% of PC internet users do have Flash Player on their machine
This is great news. Almost any computer connected to the internet does [...] Read more:Stats
How To Find An Object’s Length 2008-07-31 06:58:52 If you need to find the length of an object, and I mean the number of children of the specified object, use the following function/method:
public static function getLength
(o:Object
):uint
{
var len:uint = 0;
for (var item:* in o)
if (item != "mx_internal_uid")
[...]
Hug a Developer 2008-08-28 08:48:14 Today… I found a very heart touching movie about developers.
I don’t know how many of you found himself/herself in a situation like that but developers that has found at least one time behind the schedule will enjoy this.
Thank you devshhop.
Click here to see it on blip.tv. Read more:Developer
List With Blogs About Flex & Related 2008-08-22 02:02:47 Now, I’m gathering blogs that write about Flex, Flash, Actionscript and other Flex/Flash related technologies.
Here is is what I found so far…
- Adobe Feeds
- RIApedia
- Flexer
- Flex.org
- Ted on Flex
- Flex Team
- James Ward
- EverythingFlex
- Mike Chambers
- Ryan Stewart
- Ben Forta
- Christophe Coenraets
[...] Read more:Blogs
360|Flex Sessions (18-20 august 2008 @ San Jose, CA) Available With Adobe Media Player 2008-08-21 12:07:10 The sessions at 360|Flex Conference (18-20 august 2008 @ San Jose
, CA) are available here (on Ted on Flex) and can be seen using Adobe
Media Player. So…
download and install Adobe Media Player
open it and go to My Favourites
press Add RSS Feed and paste this:
Now there should be 15 videos under 360|Flex Conference. [...] Read more:Sessions
Flex Builder 3.0.1 Update (includes Flex SDK 3.1) 2008-08-21 04:03:44 On 18th of August Matt Chotin announce the availability of Flex Builder
3.0.1 Update
which includes Flex SDK 3.1.
This is what it contains:
bug fixes (jira list here)
support for Flash Player 10 - just base support
support for AIR 1.1
support for Eclipse 3.4
You can update your Flex Builder 3 by selecting Search for Flex Builder Updates… [...]
How To Make a BitmapData From a DisplayObject/UIComponent 2008-08-20 07:59:55 Today I needed to found a way to create bitmap data object from a display object. I found a solution in Flex Cookbook ( and having this I improved it and made it simpler.
The code follows…
public function makeBitmap(myDO:DisplayObject):BitmapData
{
var myBD:BitmapData = new BitmapData(myDO.width, myDO.height);
myBD.draw(myDO);
[...]
Flash Player 10 Debug is Out 2008-08-18 04:44:32 Flash Player 10 (”Astro”) Debug
version is out. You can find it here:
I the a previous article I explained how you can build a Flash Player 10 application using Flex SDK and here it is: -to-build-flash-player-10-applications-using-flex-sdk/.
From now on we are looking for new Flash Player 10 applications… Read more:Flash
, Flash Player
How To Add a Custom Marker On Yahoo! Maps 2008-08-14 07:59:48 In the previous article I explained how to use Yahoo
! Maps. Now I’ll explain how to create a custom marker and how to place it on the map. This is not an easy task because on Yahoo! Developer Network (YDN) there is not enough documentation regarding Yahoo! Maps API for AS3. Take a look at [...]
Adobe AIR 1.5 (”Cosmo”) Available in Flex SDK Nightly Builds 2008-09-12 15:00:12 “Cosmo
” is in the nightly builds of Flex SDK! The new AIR 1.5 contains:
Encrypted Local / SQLite databases
Integration of the SquirrelFish JavaScript VM
Integration with Flash Player 10
New Text engine
Updated Saffron engine for font rendering
Custom Filters and Effects
3D Effects
Typed Arrays updated
Dynamic video streaming
More about it on Mike Chambers blog. Read more:Adobe
, Nightly
, Builds
Image Events Dispatch Order 2008-09-12 05:20:31 Yesterday I’ve been working with images: loading, resizing, removing, etc. I got into a challenging issue: I had to vertically position a label after an image resize - but a resize that is triggered by setting maxWidth and maxHeight keeping also the aspect ratio.
I tried to get the new width and height after the resize [...] Read more:Image
, Dispatch
, Order
HTTPService Requesting XML from FeedBurner Gets Parsed with XSL in IE Browser 2008-09-10 10:32:10 These day I’ve been fighting with this issue: trying to get the Flexer XML
feed from FeedBurner
into a Flex application. As many of you may know FeedBurner serves the XML with an XSL and browsers that know XSL will parse it and display it in a nicer way that a simple xml.
The problem is [...]
FlashPaper @ The End Of Its Life 2008-09-09 11:00:43 FlashPaper is at the end of its life. Is official!
As Adobe said when they bought Macromedia… FlashPaper is discontinued! So no more updates and no hope for Vista/IE7 version. They will still give support and for a period of time Adobe will even sell it.
More about it here:
New RIA on The Market - Pixlr 2008-09-08 09:51:54 New Rich Internet Application is out on the market - Pixlr, a web based image editor, was launched on 17th of August 2008! The most interesting thing is that is created by one person and is by far the closest image editor to Photoshop. Pixlr has layers, filters, adjusments, brushes, etc.
What can we say: WOW! [...] Read more:Market
For Passionate Developer 2008-08-29 10:00:27 Another nice movie clip about developers. Sometimes, developers express themselves different.
By devshop.
Click here to see it on blip.tv. Read more:Developer
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