myFeedz in a FlexBook

Ely Greenfield‘s Flex Book component is easy to use. I went ahead and made a myFeedz mashup, where you can read a list of posts as a book. Check it out here! Over all the FlexBook component was quite easy to use. It took me a bit to find that the “content” attribute is the method of assigning a dynamic Array of child components to the book, which is nice to use after finding it out. Ely went to the lengths of making many...

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Flex 2.0.1 or Flex 2.01

Ok, this post might be a little picky, but it bugs me. The latest release of Flex is Flex 2.0.1 not Flex 2.01. Why does this matter? In the large scheme of things it doesn’t, especially with Moxie on track for coming out this year, but I like it when things are a little less confusing. So please if you are talking about the latest update of Flex 2, spell it out as Flex 2.0.1. On another note, are we going to see Flex 3 or will it take...

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AdvancedForm component moved to FlexLib

I am moving the AdvancedForm component to the FlexLib library. The FlexLib was created recently as a place for Flex developers to have a one stop shop for Flex components. The library is full of some very useful components and we are looking to the developer community to add more.

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RemoteObjectAMF0 Update

The RemoteObjectAMF0 under went a few updates.Updated code with better comments for ASDoc’s and readability Added SetCredentials Added Fault handler for NetStatus errors Added 1st round implementation for “method” definitions.Allowing you to define result/fault event handlers per method. This is done with a <renaun:methods/> tag and a <renaun:method/> component.Example of using the <renaun:methods/>...

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Adobe Using Flex to build there own Products

One of the subtle comments in the Q/A with the Flex team during 360Flex had to do with Adobe using Flex for internal application. They mentioned that about 15-20 internal projects are using Flex. Probably the most notable is the new online Photoshop application that was announced by the top exec’s of Adobe. I think this is a big deal, not only from a developer stand point but from a platform standpoint. We’ll see more and more...

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ActionScript 3.0 API for eBay

http://code.google.com/p/as3ebaylib/ The eBay ActionScript 3.0 library provides an interface between the eBay XML API and ActionScript 3.0. This open-source library will allow developers to create novel and innovative applications leveraging both eBay’s marketplace services and Adobe’s Flash Player 9 runtime! It is written in ActionScript 3.0, so any environment using ActionScript 3.0 can use this library, including Adobe Flex 2 and...

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