Coming at you from sunny San Jose, California at the eBay campus… Yesterday at 360 Flex I presented a session on Merapi and moderated a panel discussion on open source technology. At the Merapi session we discussed the focus of the project and show a lot of sample applications. Including a few demos that showed [...]
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The second post in our sub-series on Flex Builder is out! Read here: LFFS – 12: Flex Builder Part 2 – Getting Acquainted With The Workbench Also, we’ve registered www.learningflexfromscratch.com as a shortcut to our content on Inside RIA. thanks for reading -adam
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The Adobe Users Group in the Denver area has a pretty sweet new site www.rmaug.com. The site and user group are maintained by the crew at RealEyes. My favorite feature so far is the blog aggregator for the local Adobe / RIA bloggers. It’s cool to see how much is going on in the Denver/Boulder [...]
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Today at Web Maniacs I gave a fairly brief, short notice talk on Merapi. I had a few slides and presented a couple examples. The coolest example by far is something that Doug McCune helped me throw together. This example involves using a physics engine for Flex called Foam and Merapi to invoke the Java/C [...]
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Another great developer started working with Universal Mind recently. I met Sean Moore via twitter and blogs and have been really impressed with his skills and background. Glad your on a UM project Sean.. Hopefully we’ll work together directly soon, then it’ll really “watch out now” time.
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I have a new post up on InsideRIA called : More on Static Code. This is in response to the high demand that I saw in my blog analytics for a post I did sometime back on this blog called Static Code Blocks in ActionScript!. I hope you find it helpful. -adam Original post from: http://www.developria.com/2008/05/more-on-static-code.html [...]
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When I originally submitted two topics for Web Maniacs a few months ago I figured I might end up presenting one of them. Now I’m doing four. In order of appearance: 9a, Wed: Advanced Skinning and Component Development This session will actually be more about skinning and less about component development. After presenting this topic [...]
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As many of you know I’ve been co-writing a series on the O’Reilly site www.insideria.com with my friend Scott Sheridan called Learning Flex from Scratch. A big thanks to Rich Tretola for having us on as a part of Inside RIA. When we started the series Scott had no experience as a programmer. His academic background is in [...]
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The latest post in the Learning Flex from Scratch series is up. This post continues exploring the MXML language and leaves you with a uncompleted application to finish. The first “homework assignment” of LFFS, if you will. Check back next week for explanation of the solution Scott came up with. thanks for reading -adam
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I’ve been getting a lot of e-mails from people regarding Merapi lately. So, I thought it’d be a good idea to put together a “Hello World” screen cast. In the video below you’ll see a very simple use case of the framework: An AIR application that connects to Merapi on startup and receives a String [...]
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