Category: Projects
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Flex API contest extended
The guys with the Flex 360 conference have extended the deadline for their Flex API contest, so that participants for Europe can sign in as well, The new deadline is 4th of April, the friday before the conference begins. See more information on this here and here. Also, there’s almost a month to go until…
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FlexCamp is upon us
Today at Adobe Romania takes place the FlexCamp Bucharest. It’s a conference about Flex which had already sold out in the first three weeks from its announcements. I will hold a camp session showing off the improvements we have added into Flex Builder in terms of web services – the introspection wizard which generates strong…
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Silverlight 1.0 is out the door with a surprise
Yesterday Microsoft launched Silverlight 1.0. Officially it is supported by Microsoft on Windows and Mac. So if you’re running on Linux, tough luck. Or is it? Along the lines of what seems to be an ongoing internal disagreement on how to treat open-source, the developer division seems to be the one that opens up first…
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New Flex Module is out
A new version of the Flex Module for Apache and IIS has been released on labs late last week. It includes several important changes: 1. A zip folder with instructions for manual installations has been added to help users running Unixes without X and users with more weird configurations with which the installer couldn’t cope…
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Flex Module for Apache and IIS is out the door ..
And into labs. Last night Adobe launched on Labs another tool to help developers create Flex Applications free and easy, an the Operating System of choice. I’ve talked before how you can create Flex Applications using only Vim (or any other text editor for that matter), the free Flex 2 SDK and the command line.…
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How do you create a new Apache module?
Maybe this exists well documented somewhere – I couldn’t find it. This last month I had to do some work which involved creating an Apache module from scratch. For Linux and MacOSX creating a module is pretty easy – Apache even lends a hand via the APXS tools. On windows there’s a totally different problem.…
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FABridge & memory …
One of the biggest changes in the latest FABridge release is the addition of memory management mechanisms. If until now everything that was passed from ActionScript to JavaScript via the bridge stayed in memory until the page was reloaded, this is true no more. now various objects behave differently with their allocated memory, depending on…
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A new version of FABridge is out
… quite some time now actually (from last Tuesday). In case you don’t know already, the Flex-AJAX Bridge (or the much shorter name FABridge) is a library that allows developers integrate Flex applications with JavaScript code. It is a way to access and use Flex components directly from JavaScript code, without duplicating functionality. It allows…
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The virtual office
I’ve read before some posts on this topic – mostly on Lifehacker, as an informative tidbit. And lately I have had the opportunity to put that into practice for a small project on which some friends are starting work (no, I won’t expose it yet 🙂 ). They are a small team – only three…