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 [...]
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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 [...]
Most people I know have been using the beta for production work but now it’s official.
$99 to upgrade from FB2.
Tim let me know that massify.com are looking for a Flex/Flash developer.
Company: massify.com
Job Title: Flash/Flex RIA Developer
Description: Flash/Flex RIA Developer
Massify is a community driven site that brings film creatives and
movie buffs together in the pursuit of great film; we’re using the
power of the web to transform the way films are made – and, in [...]
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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.
FarHeap hosted the Orange County Flex user group meeting last night and they’re looking for four full-time Flex developers.
The comparison is coming from one of the horses mouths so take it with a grain a salt. That said I think Adobe tried not to step on some Ajax toes and didn’t make a strong enough case for Flex.
It’s a good basic overview but there are a couple of things I disagree with;
Why use [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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