Check out the press release. It is good to see Adobe Flex gaining ground a wide variety of markets. A quote from Michele Turner: “Adobe is excited to work with n2N to take cross-channel commerce to a new level,” said Michele Turner, vice president of product management and marketing, Platform Business Unit at Adobe. “With Flex and n2N, we are creating a scalable, high performance solution that is delivered on-demand in a...

This is great news for Flex. It is cool to see the Flex developer tools being bundled with other development tools. This is not a one sided agreement though. Adobe will be making the WebLogic server available with LiveCycle ES as a single install. Not sure if that is the only installation for LiveCycle ES or just a special installer. Either way its good for Flex and LiveCycle DataServices. Here is a quote form the Adobe side, “Our...

I will speaking at the 2007 Zend/PHP Conference and Expo, http://zendcon.com. The title of the session is, “Build a Sexy Front End to a Zend Framework Powered Application”. I will be using a previous Flex/PHP example created by Cal Evans. If you are going to ZendCon this year come by and say hi on Tuesday. My session is at...

2010.06.16 UPDATE: Get the latest here! 2007.12.28 UPDATE: v1.3 of QTIndexSwapper requires AIR Beta 3 With the release of the Flash Player 9 Update that supports H.264, we can now play a subset of H.264 movie files. The problem is most of the H.264 files have the index at the end of the file which for progressive download means you have to download the whole file before you can start watching any of the video. In the notes from Tinic Uro, Adobe...

David, a Buzzword Flex Developer, is giving a talk on Flex Performance and is looking for real-world stories. One of the biggest performance gainers that I see in many large applications is proper use of controls and layout. It is quite easy to create heavily nested containers which slow thing down quickly. With Flex going open source and Flex 3′s profiler performance will definitely come up more and more. Help out David with your...

The RIALogger is an AIR application that harness the power of the Flex logging Framework. Its comparable to the older Flex Trace Panel, XPanel and now the newer RedBug, XRay, and other trace viewers. The RIALogger is different in some regards and focuses on logging (not object introspection/debugging). The RIALogger receives its messages through the use of the custom RIALoggerTarget found in the renaun_com_Logger.swc (in the bin folder of the...