Doug McCune just released a very nice post about the perfect tabnavigator, aka: SuperTabNavigator. I just happened to be messing with a skinning feature for TabBar’s and TabNavigator’s that I thought would go well with this awesome component. The default Tab skin for the TabBar and TabNavigator makes the selected Tab a solid color, the same color as the backgroundColor of the respective container component (TabBar or TabNavigator). ...

The title is quoting Jeff Whatcott, vice president of marketing at Adobe, responding to the Evans Data Corporation’s newly released 2007 Scripting Languages – Developers Choice Report. If you want to buy the report get it at 2007 Scripting Languages – Developers Choice Report. The news release is located...

I was reading the “Interview with Mike Downey, Sr. Product Manager for Apollo” over on Ryan Stewart’s blog and came across something. When asked about hardware acceleration Mike said, We’ve already made some good progress starting with Flash Player 8 where we added DirectX and OpenGL optimizations to boost graphics performance. Does any one know more of the specifics of this statement? Are there tests to show the...

Ted Patrick recently posted about a Flex jobs yahoo list, located at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexjobs/. In the 24 hours of being up it has over 20 job postings. That is great for the Flex community. Other resources for job postings can be found at: The “Flex Jobs” google group page. Tariq over at CFlex.net keeps a list. As a Flex developer my self and a manager seeking Flex developers its exciting to see the growth in...

I posted about an Flex example using Cairngorm Store and multiple backends (ColdFusion Remoting and WebServices, AMFPHP using AMF0 and AMFPHP 1.9 alpha using AMF3). I goofed and forgot to put one updated file into the download. It was a change to the ProductVO to handle some WebService VO property conversion. You can read my first post here: http://renaun.com/blog/2006/12/19/170/ and get the update...

This is a very interesting announcement and addition to the Labs site. When Flash 8 came out they introduced a new Flash video codec called VP6 by the company on2. This codec has many benefits compared to the previous Spark codec. But the slight problem with live encoding is that the live encoder for VP6 codec FLV is not part of the Flash Player. Until on2 released their on2 Flix Live product last year there was no product that did...