Monthly Archives: August 2007

Sorting Images with a Flex Tile Component

This is a test for an image manager component that I’m building. The final version will have an upload feature, and when you sort the images they’ll hook up with their model in Rails using acts_as_list to save the sorting in the database. Right click the swf below to view source.

I’ve built something similar in [...]

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Scripting bezier movement with Tweener

I downloaded the latest release of Tweener and found that there’s a new set of parameters for creating bezier curve animations.

This example requires Flash player 9 or higher.

var so = new SWFObject(”http://blog.vixiom.com/uploads/bezierMaker_as3.swf”, “tweener_swf”, “500″, “400″, “9″, “#FFFFFF”);
so.write(”tweener_swf”);

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Lee Brimelow on Taking Flash to the Desktop

This was my favorite presentation of the LA stop of the Adobe AIR bus tour. Lee is very engaging and shows off a bunch of AIR apps built with Flash. If you have a Flash, rather than Flex, background Lee’s presentation will show that you’re invited to the AIR party too – don’t be shy [...]

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Everybody’s chatting about Flex

…make that chatting on Flex. All Flex front-ends but a multitude of approaches to flinging the messages about on the back-side.

Ted (on Flex) has his AIRchat running on Python Twisted.
Derek Wischusen has his messages moving atop Rails, Apache ActiveMQ, ActiveMessaging, and STOMP (post 1, post 2)
Alex McCaw is the creator of Juggernaut which can use [...]

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