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Flex 101: Creating an Interactive Chart

Andrew Trice
November 5, 2009 | | Comments (1)
Andrew Trice
Flex 101: Creating an Interactive Chart
In this post, we will walk through the steps to create an interactive chart with a Google-Finance-esque interaction. Before we get to far into the details, let's take a look at the final product. The top chart is a line chart showing a subset of data from the greater data set. The chart on the bottom is a representation of the entire data set. You can adjust the slider on the bottom to change the granularity and scope of the data represented in the top line chart.

Unity 3D is Now Free

Andrew Trice
October 29, 2009 | | Comments (3)
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I read today that a new version of Unity, a 3D Platform for the web, was released yesterday. It is full of new features, but most importantly, it is now free.

Adobe WorkflowLab for Planning RIA Projects

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October 22, 2009 | | Comments (3)
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I just happened to browse over to Adobe Labs, and stumbled across WorflowLab, a workflow planning and sharing tool for building applications. I found it interesting, and decided to share it here. Read on for more detail.

Multi-touch and the Flash Platform

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October 13, 2009 | | Comments (6)
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Multi-touch and the Flash Platform
One of the big announcements at MAX this year was Flash on devices. As the capabilities of devices change, so do the capabilities of the platforms we use to build our applications. One of the latest trends is Multi-touch. In this post, I'll try to shed some light on the upcoming multitouch capabilities in AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1.

Google Releases Chrome Frame

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September 24, 2009 | | Comments (1)
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In an interesting move Tuesday, Google released the "Chrome Frame", a plug-in that will allow you to run Google Chrome inside of Internet Explorer. This allows you to take advantage of HTML5 elements (including Canvas), and the V8 JavaScript engine, from within IE.

Adobe Announces "Flash Platform Services"

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September 21, 2009 | | Comments (1)
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Adobe Announces
Today, Adobe made the announcement of "Flash Platform Services", a suite a services that enable developers to easily create, scale, and monetize their applications. This includes 3 components: Distribution, Collaboration, and Social.

Bringing Football Highlights To Your Desktop with AIR

Andrew Trice
September 10, 2009 | | Comments (0)
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Bringing Football Highlights To Your Desktop with AIR
In the spirit of tonight's first NFL game of the season, I decided to put together an example that integrates feeds from NFL.com and brings it directly to your desktop. This is a basic example that demonstrates how to use Flash Builder's data wizards to consume data from a public rss feed as a HTTPService.

10 Tips for Flex Application Performance

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September 1, 2009 | | Comments (10)
Andrew Trice
We're going to keep this post lean and mean, and get down to business with 10 Tips that will keep your Flex applications fast, lean, and responsive. The tips are focused around three best practices rules. Rule # 1: Clean up after yourself -- In general, it is good practice to maintain clean code. Not only in the sense of having properly formatted and readable code, but also code that leaves nothing behind... no memory leaks, no cpu hogs, nothing but a clean object that can be reclaimed by the GC.

Flex Components 101 - Enabling Keyboard Support in UIComponent

Andrew Trice
August 25, 2009 | | Comments (0)
Andrew Trice
If you ever build your own custom components that extend UIComponent, you'll no doubt run into this scenario... Even if you add event listeners for keyboard events, or if you override the keyDownHandler function, you may find that your keyboard events aren't being handled by your component instances. Setting focusEnabled, mouseFocusEnabled, or tabEnabled don't seem to do the trick either... Don't pull your hair out! It's an easy fix. Read on to see how.

Using Virtualized Layouts and DataGroups in Flex 4

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August 12, 2009 | | Comments (8)
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One of the new components that I am a fan of in Flex 4 is the DataGroup. "Why?" you may wonder... Well, the DataGroup is essentially the "repeater done right" (not my words, but I'll repeat them). The DataGroup allows you to easily create sets of objects based on the contents of a collection (ArrayCollection, XMLListCollection, or any other ICollectionView implementation), and even support virtualized data layouts.

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