Three new components for Flash and seven for Flex. The AutoCompleteManager and ColorPlaneAndSliderPicker for Flex look particularly useful.
There are other color pickers out there, but a lot of the others sit inside a Panel or have some other extra visual elements and functionality you might not need. A good component should do one thing very [...]
I’m sure if you live in San Francisco you trip over famous Flexerati on your way to work, but Doug McCune speaking at the OC Flex user group on the 7th is the biggest Orange County Flex news since Lee Brimelow mentioned Costa Mesa in his blog a couple of weeks ago.
What he’s got planned [...]
SproutBuilder is probably the coolest Flex app I’ve seen yet. Picnik is great but Sprout blows my little mind.
They’re still in beta so you’ll get some errors if you have the debugger version of the Flash player.
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YAML, Blueprint, Tripoli, YahooUI – not the latest competition to Rails, Django, CakePHP, or Wicket but a set of CSS frameworks to jumpstart page layout.
I had been using YahooUI (and sometimes the DreamBeaver templates) but YAML’s Builder and Blueprint’s Generator look like good ways to get started.
Or you can always pay someone else to do [...]
Aaron has a series of posts on developing a system for stress testing AMF.
The setup: AMF Stress Testing – Flex, Ruby, JMeter.
The screen cast: Stress Testing AMF Gateway Screen Capture
The results: 37 Million (requests in), 9 hours.
That’s pretty amazing.
The next morning, we had the Live Search team from M$ asking us how the hell we [...]
I’m surprised I haven’t tried this before but you can’t load an external style sheet into Flex. The Adobe documentation mentions loading external CSS files, but they always mean loading a style sheet before you compile your SWF which isn’t what I’d call a true external style sheet.
Thankfully Ruben has written a class that will [...]
Moock says no (no harder than 2.0 or 1.0)
As a developer who’s been using Flash since it was known as FutureSplash, I simply can’t find any good reason to avoid ActionScript 3.0. I can still use it on the timeline for simple scripts, I still find the basics pretty easy to learn, and I don’t [...]
I’ve seen some disorganized FLA’s before but this project I just took over takes the cake. I present it to you now with it’s 1000+ frames and 100+ layers of flashacktackory glory,…
women will cry, children will scream, grown men will wet themselves,…
the worst FLA EVAH!!!
Click the image to experience it in full.
It’s actually quite beautiful [...]
The blog gets a refresh. This is a preview of the new vixiom.com which has been under redesign for about a year now
The blog has almost become my main site, I get all my new leads through it (or word of mouth). In my not too distant youth I used to think you [...]
A site to dull the pain Rubular. Via Ruby Inside.