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I ran into a problem a few days ago with a Flex component that I was building not showing up in Flash Builder when built using our command-line build, but showing up fine when built by the IDE (Flex Builder). It took me a bit of searching to figure out what the problem was, which [...]

With Windows XP and Vista, when an application wanted to attract your attention, it would flash its window in the task bar. When it stopped flashing, it would stay a fairly obvious orange colour. Windows 7 uses a different mechanism, and one I find far too subtle. Looking at this, you’re probably thinking “hey it’s [...]

I just watched a MAX 2009 video on Flash Builder 4 Advanced Tips and Tricks. I’m a keyboard user and this video focuses on how to get the most out of Flex Builder using the keyboard. It’s well worth watching, but if you’re not going to watch it, here are some that I found especially [...]

The Flash Platform team at Adobe announced yesterday that they’re open-sourcing the Text Layout Framework that they’ve been working on on top of the text foundation built into Flash 10. This is Kind of a Big Deal, because as far as I’m aware open-source code that handles text editing and display of Unicode text that [...]

Apple’s iTunes 8.2.1 update broke syncing with the Palm Pre. Normally when companies do this sort of thing – make changes that break another company’s product – they don’t brag about it. They say that it’s not a supported configuration and you’re left to wonder if it broke as a natural consequence of some changes [...]

I like Flash video because I hate this:

John Nack blogged about Adobe’s summer shutdown, and I just wanted to chime in and say I agree with him 100%. The idea of a week where everyone is of is much preferable to random weeks off. It would be bad if someone have a specific reason they wanted to take some other summer week [...]

Here’s a little project I’ve been working on, on and off, for some time: A login system for simple Flex-based applications with a PHP back end. It’s called FlexAccount, and there’s information and a download at that link. I posted it yesterday and this article by Jeff Atwood made me think of calling it out [...]

One aspect of forms that is kind of interesting is that a PDF “form” is really a bundling of an application, and the data that the use is creating with that application. I can’t think of any other mechanism that merges these two things. Traditionally a form is a request for information. You get a [...]

The discussion forums that Adobe runs for our products, at http://forums.adobe.com, have just been upgraded. I don’t know what technology they were based on but it was pretty dusty. The new stuff looks good. Drop by the new LiveCycle Designer ES forum if you have any Designer questions. It’s your typical “not official support” community [...]