My team at work spent the last week on Flex training. I’ve dabbled in Flex, but it was great to be lead through a lot of different areas of Flex, and more importantly, to spend a week in an IDE writing and thinking about Flex and ActionScript. Meanwhile my RSS reader is flooding me with […]
Check out this excerpt from Jeffery Snover’s post on the PowerShell Cheat Sheet: Given that I posted it a week before the Office 2007 launch, it turned out that not many people could read that so I posted it in PDF format as well. It now turns out that the corporate direction is to use […]
I added a couple of simple features to my Flex sample: Binding, and centering the window. Run the Sample By adding the viewSourceURL attribute to the Application tag, I’ve enabled a View Source menu item on the player’s context menu, so you can see the source just by right-clicking and selecting that. This is Flash […]
I want to write more about Flex, since I’m planning to use it a lot more in the future. So I need to be able to post about it here. It’s easy enough to take the a test project and drop it somewhere and link to it. For example, here’s a very simple Hello World […]
The release of Flex Builder for the Mac just makes it even more likely that there’s a new MacBook in my future.
Started to see “You must install WPF/E to view this page” messages? You’ll probably see more of them in the future, as Microsoft employees start pushing the world to install their take on Flash. Check out the top line of simplegeek.com for a gratuitous example. WPF/E is good technology, but suffers from a serious problem: Launch lag. […]
So you’re working in Flex, and you’ve got a DataGrid. The grid’s showing some data you’ve bound it to, and you want to have a button in a row that, when you click it, does something to one of the properties of the row. Easy. In the click event for your button, the ‘data’ property […]
The Flex beta is live now at Adobe Labs. I grabbed it last night and created my first Flex app this morning.. so far so good. I created a simple mortgage calculator application as my first real Flex app. Click the link to run it – if you don’t have the appropriate player it should offer […]
I work for Adobe but I still sometimes hear the new stuff from news sites, like this ZDNews article that says that Adobe will be releasing a basic version of Flex 2.0 for free: Adobe is introducing a free, basic software developers kit that includes the Flex Framework, compiler and documentation. The Flex Builder development […]
Rick Borstein posts about flavours of PDF. Now that I work for Adobe, I can tell you there’s a lot more to PDF than I thought there was before starting at Adobe. Jim King, the architect of PDF, has some great and very readable presentations on his website. His Annotated PDF presentation is an excellent introduction […]