Rich Internet Applications and the systems that drive them
Posted in Eclipse, Flex Builder on Feb 29th, 2008
Earlier this week I discovered a keyboard shortcut that will crash Eclipse on Mac OS X Leopard. There’s a fix for the problem so I wanted to blog the solution for any and all that might stumble across this issue in the future.
To be clear, as far as I can tell the bug only affects [...]
Posted in AIR, Flex, Flex Builder on Feb 24th, 2008
The title says it all. Here’s some links to the bits.
Flex Builder 3.0
http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/
Flex SDK 3.0
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+SDK
AIR 1.0
http://www.adobe.com/products/air/
Posted in AIR, Debugging, Flex, Flex Builder on Feb 8th, 2008
Edit: In a comment below Ted Patrick confirmed that Adobe has indeed already changed the licensing to allow for a virtualized Win/Mac combination. Fantastic News! One more reason to develop on a Mac! (02/08/08 11:42 PST)
I develop Flex and AIR applications in Flex Builder on my Macbook Pro notebook and I keep a copy [...]
Posted in Eclipse, Flex Builder on Aug 31st, 2007
Eclipse Fast View is a very handy feature that enables docking and undocking of Eclipse views. If you consistently find yourself looking for more room in Eclipse then Fast View is for you. The screencast after the jump demonstrates Fast View in action.
Posted in AIR, Flex, Flex Builder on Aug 13th, 2007
Ted Patrick, during the 360 Flex keynote, announced that the next Flex 3.0 beta will be available in October. While he didn’t go so far as to specify when in October I’m hopeful that the timing will coincide with MAX. In addition Ted announced that Flex 3 and AIR will ship in parallel sometime “very [...]
Posted in AIR, Flex, Flex Builder on Jul 12th, 2007
Creating an AIR express install badge is relatively simple. Adobe has done all the heavy lifting for us, our part consists of a little prep work and configuring some Flashvars. It is our part that I want to focus on in this tutorial. What you will need to create a badge:
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Posted in AIR, Eclipse, Flex Builder on Jul 10th, 2007
If your web server refuses to serve-up your shiny new AIR app, the problem just might be the MIME type or lack there of. Mike Chambers posted on this topic awhile back and I bumped into it again yesterday (how quickly we forget!) so I thought I’d blog it for my own sake and yours.
The [...]
Posted in Flex, Flex Builder on Jun 11th, 2007
Let me preface this by saying I’m a typical guy, I don’t read a lot of directions, especially beta directions. I’m usually too darn excited to play with whatever the new toy is. All this is to say what I’m covering here might well be documented somewhere. I just haven’t found it yet.
I was wandering [...]
Posted in AIR, Conferences, Flex, Flex Builder on Mar 16th, 2007
I’m more than impressed with the Apollo Camp schwag bag. First of all I wasn’t expecting anything other then Apollo Alpha 1. Here’s what we received:
Apollo Camp t-shirt
Nice little Apollo Camp sticker (I think I’ll put it on my MBP
Lynda.com Apollo training DVD by none other than Mike Chambers
Of Course Apollo Alpha 1
AND THE BIG [...]
Posted in ColdFusion, Flex, Flex Builder, OS X on Jan 17th, 2007
Maybe I'm missing something here (I sincerely hope I am). After reading Ben's post on the new CF Demo I was all fired up to try it for myself. This is the greeting I received when I attempted to run the plug-in.
My heart sank with disappointment. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not purposely [...]