By: Burton Podczerwinski Recently, the Chicago Flex users group raffled off two tickets to the 360|Flex conference. I was lucky enough to be one of the winners! The conference will be held in Washington DC this year, from September 19th – 22nd. This year Roundarch will be one of the sponsors alongside Adobe, O’Reilly and [...]
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This week, I’ll be at Flash and the City (FATC) in downtown Manhattan, a conference designed to give people the opportunity to attend sessions with industry experts in Flash, Flex, ColdFusion, mobile, and UX design—all while exploring world-famous sites throughout New York City. Conference-goers and speakers will also have the opportunity to mingle at social [...]
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As promised, here are the links that were referenced in my talk. Vector Graphics – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics Raster Graphics – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_graphics F*CSS Site – http://fcss.flashartofwar.com Source – http://github.com/theflashbum/fcss Quick start – http://fcss.flashartofwar.com/quick-start-guide Jesse Freeman – @theflashbum http://flashartofwar.com/ FlexFormatter http://sourceforge.net/projects/flexformatter/ http://flexformatter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/FlexFormatter/FlexPrettyPrintCommandUpdateSite/ (Eclipse software update URL) Thanks to Flash Camp Chicago for having me present and to Roundarch [...]
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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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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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Monday, November 17th marks the official start to this year’s Adobe MAX conference. I wanted to give a quick update on where I’ll be and what I’ll be up to at MAX. So, here it is. First of all, at MAX you can follow me on Twitter or BrightKite my handle is “adamflater” on both. [...]
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What: Universal Mind, a leading solution provider of Rich Internet Applications, today announced two of its team members will lead teaching seminars and one will participate in a panel discussion at the Adobe MAX Conference North America 2008. Rich Internet Applications are an important part of Web 2.0 deployments because they [...]
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As promised in my session at EclipseWorld [No longer up] today, I’m posting a recap of the session. My session was titled “Building Flex/AIR UIs for Java Using Merapi”. The session gave an overview of Flex, Flex Builder, and Merapi. I also provided some sample application demos using the Merapi framework. You’ll find a link to [...]
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To keep in the open tradition of 360 | Flex I’m posting my survey feedback once again. The Merapi session at 360 Flex | San Jose was really fun and was happy to share the stage with my friend Jordan Synder. There was one very constructive comment about our examples. The examples that I showed [...]
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The first issue of Flex Authority is out! I was lucky enough to attend 360 Flex in San Jose last week and grabbed a pre-release copy there. In addition, Dave Meeker and I were lucky enough to be interviewed by Leif Wells. Leif was really great about coordinating this interview on Merapi. Thanks for your [...]
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