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Controlling Phidgets with an AIR application on Android

July 14, 2010 // Posted in AIR, Android, Flash Builder, Flex 2 Comments

Some time ago I was watching an episode of “Prototype This” and was thinking that these guys have an awesome job of creating mechanical prototypes and interfacing them with some fancy programming. That got me thinking about some things that seemed quite interesting to me and I started surfing the web for some affordable hardware. [...]

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June 29th – Next CFUGBE event: Using ColdFusion with AIR

June 24, 2010 // Posted in AIR, ColdFusion, Event, Flex 1 Comment

The next ColdFusion user Group meeting in Belgium wil take place on June 29th, 2010. The location is the Adobe Offices, Culliganlaan 2F, Diegem. The meeting will start at 19h00 and you’ll have the opportunity to get some free drinks and do some networking with fellow developers. You are not required to know much about [...]

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Applications in AIR on Android

June 8, 2010 // Posted in AIR, Android, Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst, Flex 4 Comments

This time I would like to share a small video with you guys. It’s about a couple of AIR applications that I’ve created. The first one in the video is a solar panel monitor application, which monitor the power output of my solar panels at home. This one works over the internet as well, since [...]

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FATC – AIR 2.0 workshop overview

May 14, 2010 // Posted in AIR, ColdFusion, Event No Comments

OK, so now we’re done with the AIR 2.0 workshop here. Things were really looking good and we had some great questions and responses from the audience. Let me make a small summary of what we covered. Peter Elst was up first and he talked about the basic stuff in AIR. Since the audience was [...]

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Solving the “missing AIR application XML file” error in Flash Builder

April 17, 2010 // Posted in AIR, Actionscript 3, Flash Builder No Comments

When creating an AIR project, you automatically get an XML configuration file for your application, which contains the initial width and height, the available icons and the indication whether or not the application uses a custom chrome (amongst other settings). This XML file has the same name as the application itself, followed by “-app.xml”. OK, [...]

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Why you should attend Flash And The City

February 8, 2010 // Posted in AIR, ColdFusion, Event 1 Comment

On May 13-17 there’s an incredibly great event called Flash And The City in New York city. This event is very much unlike other events because it isn’t just all about speaker sessions. There is a special "city track" which allows you to take in the scenery as there are also some city tours organised [...]

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Ben Forta is coming to Belgium

February 2, 2010 // Posted in AIR, ColdFusion, Event, Flash Builder No Comments

For those of you who don’t know Ben Forta, he’s the Adobe senior product evangelist and the author of numerous books about ColdFusion (nad other technologies). He’s also the director of the evangelism team. Every once in a while you get the chance to meet with him at some ColdFusion event, but not often in [...]

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Pre-order my book

December 10, 2009 // Posted in AIR, Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst, Flex 1 Comment

Hey guys, I know it has been rather quiet on my site lately. The reason for this is the fact that I’m currently writing a book. Now, what is it going to be about? Some of you may know this already by reading my Twitter posts or by following my LinkedIn status messages. For the [...]

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View state transition problem: effects don’t play

July 17, 2009 // Posted in AIR, Flex No Comments

Question: When I’m using view states, I apply transitions to make the view state changes more fluent an attractive. There seems to be a problem though, because when I have a component in the second view state that I want to fade out upon returning to the base state, that effect is never played. Do [...]

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Embedding fonts in Flex, AIR and Actionscript projects

June 13, 2009 // Posted in AIR, Actionscript 3, Flex 9 Comments

Question: I’m trying to develop a Flex application that uses a Text component which will take an html rendered text. So far, no problem there. However, I would like to use more than 1 font (regular, bold, italic) in this text component and I’m not sure if the fonts are all on the user’s computer. [...]

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