Flex Leads To Clash Between Java and Flash Communities
I will go out on a limb here, and say something totally general about two developer communities, and how they view each other. We define ourselves against others (those who do not are the true innovators), and now, I will go define myself against others So what do I mean? Flex have spawned a lot [...]
June 3, 2008
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Tags: flash, flex · Posted in: Programming, Rich Internet Applications
Where is IList.addAll() in AS3/Flex?
Being used to the excellent collection apis of Java, I come to expect that of other platforms too. The Flex platform has the IList interface, which amongst other methods, has the removeAll() method. Sadly, it is missing the addAll(Collection) method, so I am left to do this instead: coll.removeAll(); var newElements : ArrayCollection = xxx [...]
May 26, 2008
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Tags: as3, flex · Posted in: Programming, Rich Internet Applications
64bit Flash Player on Linux – Do It Yourself
In a recent blog post, James Ward from Adobe write about where the 64bit support for flash player on linux is. The main point in the post is, that Adobe, by open sourcing the VM of the flashplayer in the tamarin project, has made it possible for us to do the 64bit support for them. [...]
May 16, 2008
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Tags: adobe, flash, flex, opensource, tamarin · Posted in: Operating Systems
Make Your Voice Heard At Adobe
I am regularly reading Matt Chotin from Adobe to get information about flex. I just came across a post about a flex and coldfusion survey they are running, and because I use and care about flex, I took the time to take the survey. I just wanted to let you all know, that this survey [...]
March 15, 2008
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Tags: adobe, flash, flex · Posted in: Uncategorized
Adobe Makes Linux Citizens Be Second Rang
It should be so nice, but it is not. What can be downloaded of the new Flex 3 and AIR 1 releases? Windows and Mac versions, but no Linux version yet! I know, they have alpha/beta releases of Flex Builder 3 for linux, but they have no final release. Adobe has started releasing flashplayer for [...]
March 12, 2008
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Tags: adobe, flash, flex, Operating Systems · Posted in: Tools
Not All of Flex is So Open
Here we go again, with a little rant about Adobe and their half-way openness in flex. They keep shouting about flex being open source, which is true, sort of. I mean, it is, but there are components in it, that are not. Take the new flex3, for instance. If you browse the flex3 SDK apidocs [...]
March 12, 2008
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Tags: adobe, flash, flex · Posted in: Tools
Adobe Not Playing Nice On Flex Bugs
Today, I shall tell a story about bad bug handling from Adobe on the flex framework. A story about Adobe pushing their payware LCDS product, as a solution to a bug in flex or flash! A while ago, I posted on flash still being closed and proprietary, to make us think about that, before blindly [...]
February 5, 2008
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Tags: adobe, flash, flex · Posted in: Rich Internet Applications, Uncategorized
Flash FileReference.browse Problems on Linux
When developing flash applications using flex, you can use flash.net.FileReference to upload files from the client to the server. Lately, we have been having problems with this on linux, and through a flex bug report on FileReference.browse Adobe helped me out. The problem was, that the flashplayer did not upload any file, the first time [...]
December 30, 2007
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Tags: bug, flash, flex · Posted in: Programming
Flash is Still Closed Source and Proprietary Technology
With all the latest hype about the great Flex framework for Flash applications (including my own hyping), and the fact that Adobe has open sourced Flex, I would like to point out, that Flex is still based on a quite closed an proprietary platform. Something of great importance, I think. Flex is Great Flex is [...]
December 28, 2007
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Tags: flash, flex · Posted in: Rich Internet Applications