If you’re trying to develop a flex app that can go fullscreen (allowFullScreen) you’ll get an error in Flex Builder when you try and run code that launches fullscreen mode.
The issue is that allowing fullscreen is set as a param in the code of that embeds the SWF in it’s HTML page not in MXML [...]
February 26, 2008 – 6:30 pm
Or even better write Flash/Flex Rich Internet Applications with Ruby? Ted Patrick says it may soon be possible.
When Microsoft released Silverlight the one feature that got a lot of people excited was that you could use the language you were most familiar with to build a RIA. Apparently Adobe has an internal project which allows [...]
February 11, 2008 – 8:09 am
Derek shows how to push AMF encoded messages from the server with Rails through BlazeDS.
Ted introduces the Yahoo! map components for AS3.
Combine the two and you could build a Flex/Rails app that tracks someone’s position in real time.
February 2, 2008 – 2:27 pm
HotGigs has a feature where they collect and aggregate the hourly bill rates of the consultants on their site. Here are the average hourly bill rates for Flex, Flash, and Ruby, surprisingly they have sub-categories for Flash all the way down to Flash Remoting but there’s just one category for Ruby with no Rails sub-category.
For [...]
January 31, 2008 – 10:34 am
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 [...]
January 30, 2008 – 11:53 pm
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 [...]
January 29, 2008 – 12:57 am
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 [...]
January 28, 2008 – 7:19 pm
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 [...]
January 25, 2008 – 9:22 am
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 [...]
January 24, 2008 – 1:21 pm
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 [...]