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Joining the Adobe Community Professionals for 2010
Formerly the Adobe Community Experts program, this is a collective of awesome individuals who exhibit expertise in various Adobe product areas from Acrobat to Photoshop, Flash, Cold Fusion, Flex, AIR and many, many more. Comprised of community leaders, this group has a worldwide presence and expounds the virtues of Adobe to the masses through the sharing of their time and expertise.
I’m truly honored to have been chosen as a member of this select group and look forward to expanding my community efforts throughout this new year. Having missed FlashCamp Brasil this past weekend, this revelation makes the trip to FITC Amsterdam that much more rewarding. See you there!!
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Upgrading Flash Builder
March 1, 2010 - 8:46 pm
Tags: Adobe, AIR, Flash, Flex, OSX
Posted in Adobe, Apple, Flex, General, OSX | No comments
Whether you’re upgrading because you’re using BETA versions that change rather frequently or upgrading to the next major release, you don’t want to lose all your hard work invested in configuring your setup. Here’s how I handle it and hopefully it’s useful to you. If you have other cool ways to persist workflows between upgrades, [...]
FITC Amsterdam 2010 Recap
February 24, 2010 - 5:27 pm
Tags: Community, FITC, LAFO
Posted in Community, FITC, General, LAFO | 2 comments
First, this will be a rather lengthy pictorial of the last few days here in Amsterdam. For those that have never been, I’ll also share my insights and tips on visiting the city since I’m a seasoned pro now, LOL (4th time).
The City
Amsterdam is a really cool city. It hasn’t changed that much since my [...]
Using a Custom AdvancedDataGridHeaderRenderer to Display a Custom Image
February 9, 2010 - 10:38 am
Tags: AIR, Flash Platform, Flex
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You decide to use an AdvancedDataGrid to display your data and for one of the columns you would prefer to use an icon instead of a text label to indicate the kind of data this column represents.
First step is building the renderer. You can use either MXML or ActionScript but for this example we’ll [...]
Introducing Opticon Runtime Debugger
Opticon is a runtime debugging console useful for Flash/Flex developers. It’s simple to start using in your projects. To use, follow these steps after installing the application:
1. Launch the application
2. Click the Settings button
3. Click on the SWC icon to add the OpticonConnector to your project’s build path
4. Replace your trace statements with one of [...]
Double-headed Arrows with GraphicsUtil
I recently ran across this awesome utility class, GraphicsUtil, created by Noel Billig. It allows the ability to draw lines with an arrow on one end using the drawing API in AS3. This proved useful for a project I was working on. In addition to its default behavior however, I needed the utility class to [...]
Overlaying the Flex SDK with the AIR 2.0 SDK on OSX
December 4, 2009 - 7:55 am
Tags: AIR, Mac, OSX
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Since I develop with multiple IDEs, I maintain the latest releases of the Flex and AIR SDKs in a centralized location outside of their default install locations. This made enabling the AIR 2.0 SDK simple for me as all I had to do was the following:
1. Duplicate my Flex 3 SDK path
2. Rename the duplicate [...]
ZamfBrowser – ZendAMF Service Browser
November 13, 2009 - 7:22 pm
Tags: AIR, Flash, Flex, PHP, ZendAmf
Posted in AIR, Apple, Flash, Flex, OSX Server | 4 comments
Using the Flex IViewCursor to Manage an ArrayCollection
One of the nice things about the Flex framework is the various utility classes that make it so much easier for you to accomplish your development tasks than you’d be able to without them. One such class, in my opinion, is mx.collections.IViewCursor.
Cool Features in Flash Builder 4
I was recently working on a project in the latest beta release of the forthcoming Flash Builder 4 and wanted to point out the new contextual help feature. What’s nice about this feature is that I had just added the highlighted event to the event class and was busy implementing it in a view class and because of FB4’s new code-hinting muscle I was able to see everything that I had documented in the event class concerning the event without having to have the event class open.
KwikUML Open Sourced!
December 25, 2008 - 12:13 am
Tags: AIR
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