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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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Bye-bye Slider, hello Hero

July 1, 2010 // Posted in Android, Flex 1 Comment

Maybe some of you have heard about “Slider”, a spin-off of the Flex framework which should be optimised to be used on mobile devices. It was announced for the first time at the end of last year. However, yesterday Adobe announced that Slider will be dropped, because of the rapidly growing capabilities of smartphones and [...]

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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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Creating 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 [...]

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It’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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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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Floating 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 [...]

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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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