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Simple example of using jQuery clone to allow for multiple file uploads and metadata.

More and more the idea of having a social experience has become part of what makes the internet a unique experience compared to other mediums. Over time sites have added the ability to share, comment and evaluate information. To deliver things like chat, file sharing or a multi-user game can require a fair amount of work on both the client side and the server side. The Adobe Flash Collaboration Service gives developers a way to create their own multi-user experience, without the need to manage and maintain servers and work with tools that Flex developer are all ready used to using.

Recently slashdot ran a story http://slashdot.org/story/09/06/29/1816226/Does-the-Hacker-Ethic-Harm- that concluded with the following statement and question: "'American software development managers often complain that Indian programmers are too literal-minded, but perhaps Americans have swung the pendulum too far in the other direction. In...

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Lots of RIA's use web services, and one of the more tedious parts of writing a service can be looping through all of the rows in a recordset, adding nodes, setting their attributes, etc. I spend a lot of time trawling...

Mate is the new kid on the block in the Flex framework world. It’s an MXML-based Flex framework that - like its colleagues - encourages the use of the MVC architectural pattern. There’s been plenty of buzz around the campfire over Mate. After some investigation it quickly becomes apparent that its popularity is well warranted.

Welcome back to the series. In the previous articles we discussed topics like publishing of news, sending notifications to specific friends etc. The articles covered topics that are not only bound to the user interface in the facebook application development. This time, we are going to play around with the already existing (but complex) MultiFriend component. The component from the article 11 was quite good, but it really had the potential to be a kick ass component for facebook. There were things I wanted to implement, but was not able to because the whole article covered the basic construction of the component.

This purpose of this article is to introduce developers and data visualization specialists to Axiis, which is an open source data visualization project based on Adobe Flex and Actionscript 3. While you do not have to be an expert in Flex Builder or ActionScript 3, having experience in both will make understanding this tutorial easier. Throughout the article I will assume you are comfortable with the fundamentals of building an application with Flex, and understand some of the primary language constructs embodied within ActionScript 3 and the Flex SDK, primarily MXML and Binding.

AFCS (Adobe Flash Collaboration Service) previously known as 'Cocomo' is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that that allows Flex developers to address a class of applications known as collaborative applications.

Collaborative Applications have progressed from a nice cool thing into serious applications. Almost all of us would have participated in an online chat or a web meeting, which allows a group of users to chat, share files, do screen sharing, take polls, ask questions and receive answers, etc. AFCS aims to lower the barrier to entry for developers to bring such collaborative features into their applications.

Welcome back to the series. This time we are goings to build a really exciting component that will be used to simply display information about the user. Well, you might say why to we need such a component, is there are real purpose behind that? Well, in my opinion, yes. There are a lot of facebook applications out there done in Flash where we see information about the friends etc. During the process of facebook application development, there will always be a need to quickly display information about the specific friend. The information that is contained inside the component could be every bit of information that was entered by the user.