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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The latest post in the Learning Flex from Scratch series is up. It focuses on the online resources Scott has found useful while learning Flex. We’ll be doing more of these posts as the series continues, but you can also check out the del.icio.us account that Scott setup for LFFS. Here you will find the [...]
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Apart from the Learning Flex From Scratch series I’ll be doing some guest blogging on my own from time-to-time. My first post is on 360|Flex San Jose. Thanks to Rich for making me a two time Inside RIA guest blogger.
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Looks like I forgot to do a post announcing LFFS 5 and now 6 is out as well. In LFFS 5 Scotty is taking us into the world of ActionScript loops and conditionals. Need a beginners look at a for, for in, for in each, while, or do while loop? Look no further than LFFS. [...]
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Our latest post in the Inside RIA series “Learning Flex from Scratch” is up. It’s called: LFFS – 4: Actionscript 3.0. In this post Scott begins his journey into the syntax of Actionscript 3.0. This first post is a look at how to write a basic class… posts will follow with examples on writing loops, [...]
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I thought I’d mirror Tom and John’s style of being transparent about 360|Flex and share the survey results of my talk. Thanks to everyone that gave feedback. I’ll be giving a 2.0 version of this talk at Flex Maniacs in May and feedback from attendees is really helpful to know what to polish. If you [...]
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Our latest post in the Inside RIA series “Learning Flex from Scratch” is up. It’s called: LFFS – 3: Object Oriented Language. In this post we unpack the definition and need for an object oriented language and also define object oriented concepts that are relevant for our next post on ActionScript. Stay tuned.. thanks for [...]
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You can download the resources for my talk here.
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If you’re at 360|Flex in Atlanta this week, we’ll be doing a panel discussion of a bunch of different Flex Open Source projects in the hands on room tomorrow at 10am. I’ll be there talking a bit about Merapi, there’ll be folks representing other projects such as, Degrafa, OpenFlux, Flex Lib, the MDI windowing project.. [...]
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