Today was the Flex portion of the BFusion/BFlex here in Bloomington, IN. I presented on integration native code in Flex with Merapi here at Indiana University. The main example we worked through involved automating Excel in Flex using Merapi .NET. The code for the example is checked into our Merapi Example repository. I thought a [...]
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In early 2009 Roundarch and Tesla Motors partnered together to work on concepts for the Tesla Model S in-dash experience. The prototype used a framework that Adam co-created called Merapi. This framework enabled the dash user interface (an Adobe Flex/AIR application) to integrate with hardware in the car. Adam helped implement the ideas Tesla and [...]
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As my first contribution to flexlib I’ve been developing a utility class called “CSSPropertyInjector“. The CSSPropertyInjector class is used to apply styles from CSS to an Object that has properties that are not stylable or on Objects that are generally not stylable. Another nice feature of CSSPropertyInjector is the ability to specify multiple styleNames. This [...]
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I was proud to announce with Andrew Powell today at 360 Flex | Indy, that Merapi is now officially open source. We’ve released the first public beta on Google Code as well as opened a Google Group. There is also a repo for Merapi examples. Here are the important links: http://merapi.googlecode.com/ http://merapi-examples.googlecode.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/merapi-project To find [...]
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On March 9th I began a new position in the role of Technical Architect and Evangelist at Roundarch. As I stated in my previous post, this was a difficult decision to make. Now that I’ve had a couple months of settling in, I’m happy to say I’m enjoying my new role and the team at [...]
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By: Dave Meeker It is a exciting time in the world of Web technology and User Experience design. With every passing week at Roundarch, It becomes more clear to me that consumers are embracing these changes and that companies that provide products and services to those consumers are listening. We’ve reached a point where the [...]
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Number 3 on my list of Cairngorm tips is the Data Translator pattern. I’d like to preface my explanation of the pattern with a discussion about web application domains. As Flex developers we’re often inclined to use server-side technologies like Blaze DS, LiveCycle DS, ColdFusion, amfPHP, RubyAMF because of the native object transfer layers that [...]
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My colleague Doug McCune sent out a link last week to a product called Typinator. Typinator is a tool for Mac OS that auto replaces character strings that are typed anywhere in Mac OS. In the videos below you will see a few ways that Typinator can be used in a Flex development environment. Class [...]
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It has been far too long since I’ve blogged about Merapi, so I thought I would share what’s up with the project. First off, the next release has been coming soon for far too long. That is my responsibility and I apologize to everyone that’s been waiting on the new build. However, there is good [...]
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In late 2008 Brightkite engaged Universal Mind to develop an application called The Brightkite Wall. The Wall is a Flash Application built using Flex. For those of you unfamiliar with Brightkite, here’s a quick overview: Brightkite is a location based, micro-blogging, social networking platform. Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last five [...]
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