January 29, 2008 – 5:50 pm
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.
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 7, 2008 – 1:47 pm
My new year’s resolution is to organize my ActionScript snippets, so I made a website to do just that actionsnip.com.
I know yes another snippet site, but none of the others highlight ActionScript properly. And because I don’t only collect snippets but blog posts about ActionScript as well there’s a feature called scraps which lets you [...]
December 28, 2007 – 1:19 pm
Rick Olson’s attachment_fu is my favorite file upload plug-in because let’s you use three different image manipulation tools [rmagick, mini-magick, image science] and storage options [file system, database, amazon s3]. However it doesn’t yet support two features I use on every CMS I build, Flash/Flex file upload (images will upload but won’t be resized) and [...]
December 12, 2007 – 10:06 pm
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/flexbuilder3/
UPDATE: and stuff compiles waaaaaay faster nice!
December 4, 2007 – 11:15 pm
SWX Ruby is a port of SWX (originaly PHP), which claims to be “Ruby’s fastest library for exchanging data with Flash” I haven’t tried it because it doesn’t yet support Flash player 9 but I wouldn’t doubt it’s the fastest as many other methods aren’t too speedy (Although RubyAMF is much quicker lately).
as3yaml, you guessed [...]
December 4, 2007 – 3:01 pm
Jobs that combine Flex and Rails don’t come down the pike too often. Even more rare is one from a start up with a lot of buzz like Blist.
Speaking of pikes the job is in Seattle so all you Northwest Flex/Railers send in your resume and the solution to Blist’s programming challenge.
Without using any built [...]
December 3, 2007 – 12:43 pm
From Ted (on flex) and Ryan Stewart.
Most are guessing AMF will be open sourced, anything that makes AMF more popular will be good news.