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I posted a screencast of building a Flex Mobile application in 12 minutes. It is a clone of the app they built in the Mobile Smackdown at CodeMash this year. Check it out!
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I posted a screencast of building a Flex Mobile application in 12 minutes. It is a clone of the app they built in the Mobile Smackdown at CodeMash this year. Check it out!
Just a quick note. I will be popping over to RIA Rockstars every once in a while to write content for them. Essentially, they took over the hole that was left when Adobe and O'Reilly shut down Inside RIA last month. Many of the same authors moved during that change, so the same quality of content should be expected of RIA Rockstars Read More...
More Cross-Training in SIlverlight and Flex One of the most powerful and compelling features of RIA frameworks like Silverlight and Flex is data binding. Data binding is where you declaratively state that a property in the view is “bound” to data in your model (or presentation behavior layer) Read More...
If you want to learn Flex or simply want to hone your skills, you need to know about this 3-day Flex Jam. SRT Solutions of Ann Arbor, MI is hosting a Flex Jam on Februrary 15-17 with Adobe evangelist James Ward. The format is simple: Come to the jam with a problem you want to work on. If you don’t have a project, no problem Read More...
This Friday, I will be presenting at CodeMash for the second year in a row. This year, my topic is Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Flex * But Were Afraid to Ask. It is really just a presentation form of my current series – Cross-Training in Silverlight and Flex. As a good speaker-citizen, I wanted to post my slides and demo Read More...
I am excited to release a pet project of mine that I have been developing for a few months. ActionLinq is a complete LINQ-to-Objects implementation for ActionScript 3.0. Including the same deferred execution behavior as LINQ, ActionLinq is a functional query library designed to process and manipulate data in ActionScript 3 Read More...
More Cross-Training in SIlverlight and Flex This is probably my favorite topic in this Silverlight/Flex series. In the Silverlight world, I have written extensively about the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) – a separated presentation pattern for stateful clients (like Rich Internet Applications) Read More...
More Cross-Training in Silverlight & Flex In my previous post, I talked about the declarative side of Silverlight and Flex (XAML vs MXML). In this post, I will talk about the imperative side Silverlight and Flex. In other words, this is where developers write code that executes logic to modify state Read More...
More Cross-Training in Silverlight and Flex Silverlight and Flex both include a declarative markup language for their UIs. Microsoft calls the Silverlight specification Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML pronounced zammel). Adobe calls the Flex specification MXML which is thought to have come from the original inventors: Macromedia extensible Markup Language Read More...
More Cross-Training in Silverlight & Flex What a week for RIAs! The first half of the week was consumed by the Adobe MAX conference where we got to see the future of Flex. The second half of the week was consumed by the Microsoft PDC conference where many of us were hoping to hear about the future of Silverlight Read More...
