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Typography Tricks for Flex 3

Amy Blankenship
July 28, 2010 | | Comments (0)
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Typography Tricks for Flex 3
I'm sure I'm not alone in wishing I could take advantage of some of the yummy features in Flex 4 that make precise design and layout possible like, oh, Text Layout Framework (TLF). But some of us are working on...

The Mobile First Revolution

RJ Owen
July 28, 2010 | | Comments (5)
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Luke Wroblewski, or LukeW as he's known on the web, is a self-described "digital product design & strategy guy" who's been pushing the idea of designing for mobile interfaces first for a while now. He thinks that designing for mobile first works best because 1.) mobile is more important than desktop these days, 2.) mobile forces you to focus on what's really important, and 3.) mobile extends your application's capabilities (GPS, touch-screens, etc.). At first I thought this idea was neat. Now I'm convinced it's nothing short of revolutionary.

Jailbreaking your iPhone is legal: what changes?

RJ Owen
July 27, 2010 | | Comments (8)
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Jailbreaking your iPhone is legal: what changes?
Yesterday the U.S. Copyright office passed down new rules under the DMCA changing making Jailbreaking legal on iPhones. This is all good and nice, but is it going to result in any real change in the mobile phone market? While the new rules might at least incent Apple to play a little nicer, will consumers benefit in any way?

Innovate!

Tom Barker
July 27, 2010 | | Comments (1)
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The Google Innovation Method is one of the best ways to introduce new features or products into the mix. If you aren't familiar with the concept, it's allocating 20% of your engineering team's time to devote just to coming up...

Getting Control of Flex Data Binding

Amy Blankenship
July 24, 2010 | | Comments (3)
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Getting Control of Flex Data Binding
Databinding in Flex is one of the features that has made it so popular as a Framework. You change a property in one place and, voilà, some text changes in a completely different place. However, there is a lot...

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Developing Google Wave Gadgets with Adobe Flex

Romin Irani
July 20, 2010 | | Comments (4)
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Developing Google Wave Gadgets with Adobe Flex
Google Wave is a collaboration platform that was announced by Google last year. It is a web based platform where participants can come together and collaborate both for work and fun. The developers of Wave have kept the platform open for extension where developers can write automated robots and gadgets (similar to widgets) that can participate in a wave and add value to the collaboration. In this article we will cover how you can start developing gadgets for Google Wave using Flex as your primary development environment.

What's this data about? Gaining insight on a collection of items

Gabriela Perry
July 8, 2010 | | Comments (1)
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What's this data about? Gaining insight on a collection of items
I remember the first time I heard of User Centered Design. It was around 2003, and it hit me as if the truth has been revealed to my eyes. Since that, I started to face interface design in a different way. I was a web designer, and at that time it meant I was a graphic designer using the internet as media instead of paper. And then I found myself in an UCD assignment - which ended up being much more difficult to manage than I expected.

PHP as a data source for Flex applications

Robert Bak
June 28, 2010 | | Comments (1)
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PHP as a data source for Flex applications
A whole lot of people seem to be moving from web page development to building RIAs these days. But while the emergence of the new client side technologies is easy to notice, with names like Flex, Silverlight or JavaFX appearing more and more often in the context of web development, the move to RIAs also affects the server side coders.

Behavior Modification for Developers

Amy Blankenship
June 15, 2010 | | Comments (6)
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Behavior Modification for Developers
Have you ever asked yourself "why am I playing this stupid game when I should be doing something more productive," yet you're unable to stop? If so, you've experienced behavior modification. The developer/designer may not have used it intentionally, but the effect on your behavior was the same. If developers want to control the behavior modification that takes place when a user experiences their application, they should probably understand the science behind it and learn some basic techniques to keep users happily using the application.

Top security threats to Flash/Flex applications and how to avoid them - Part 2

Elad Elrom
June 3, 2010 | | Comments (0)
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Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is a vulnerability that allows attackers to inject client-side script. XSS stands for many of the attack we see on the Web today. Attackers find some kind of a creative way to inject script into web pages, which than allow them to expose the user to many security risks

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