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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Controlling Phidgets with an AIR application on Android
July 14, 2010 // Posted in AIR, Android, Flash Builder, Flex 2 Comments
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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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 [...]
Read the entire articleCreating a custom combobox using Flash Catalyst
April 16, 2010 // Posted in Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst, Flex 6 Comments
Comboboxes are great components, but unfortunately, at the moment you cannot create a custom combobox in Flash Catalyst by simply using the HUD or right-click menu to convert the artwork. In my book “Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst: the new workflow” ( http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=1430228350) I created a design for an e-commerce application where I used a [...]
Read the entire articleIt’s D-day: Adobe releases Flex 4 SDK, Flash Builder 4, ColdFusion Builder and Flash Platform Services for Social Network Integration
March 22, 2010 // Posted in ColdFusion Builder, Flash Builder, Flex No Comments
Yes! This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for so long. After a long series of beta and prerelease versions, the new Flex 4 SDK has been officially released. And of course, this release is also accompanied with the release of Flash Builder 4. This is the new version of Flex Builder (for those [...]
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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 [...]
Read the entire articleFloating license policy for Flex applications
October 4, 2009 // Posted in Flex, LiveCycle Data Services 9 Comments
Sometimes in Flex projects you need to be able to include some licensing policy. In a lot of cases this will be a simple user identification for registered users. But sometimes there is a request for a floating license policy. This means that a certain company buys let’s say 10 licenses, but they are not [...]
Read the entire articleView 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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