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Free Alternative to Flex Builder

September 26th, 2008 · 10 Comments · Flex, Tools

It’s been a long time since I last played with Flex. I feel like starting from square one.
This also means that I have a more difficult path ahead of me, with my Flex Builder trial license already expired.
Fortunately, it’s not that hard to setup basic mxml auto complete functionality with a plain Eclipse installation with [...]

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Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide

April 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Books, Flex

This book has been released under Creative Commons License and is available for download…
Yes, for FREE!
Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide
You can checkout Mike Chamber’s blog for more details.

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JSF vs Flex Components

April 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Flex, Java

When developing JSF applications, I rely heavily on these two sites as reference for the Tag syntax.

http://www.exadel.com/tutorial/jsf/jsftags-guide.html
http://www.horstmann.com/corejsf/jsf-tags.html

With Flex, there’s a similar tool where you can see Flex 3 components in action.

http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/componentexplorer/explorer.html

Try visiting and comparing the mentioned sites and you’ll probably have an idea why I’m really excited about developing applications in Flex.

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Flex, BlazeDS and JPA

April 18th, 2008 · 13 Comments · Flex, Java

After several days of playing with Flex, I’ve managed to create a simple Java-based backend using BlazeDS and the Java Persistence API (JPA).
In this post, we will try to implement what used to be a very popular application (during the early days of the Internet), the “Guest Book“.
What you’ll need:

Flex Builder 3 (you can download [...]

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Flex Memory Usage

April 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Flex

I was trying to modify this stock ticker example to work with Flex 3 when I came upon a surprising conclusion.
“With great power comes great responsibility.”
Spider-Man / Spider-Man 2
Yes, I’m 100% convinced that Flex is the way to go if you want rich interactive user interfaces.
But that does not come without a [...]

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Flex-ing Your Way to RIA Land

April 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Books, Flex

I’ve had the privilege to work on some proof of concept pages using Flex since last week. Yes, I’ve heard the buzz around RIA and Flex before but I didn’t have the time to play around with the application until now.
I originally thought that it was somehow expensive to develop applications using Flex, but looking [...]

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