An overview of all the new goodies in Flash Builder 4
Posted by Niels in Adobe, Development, Flash Builder on June 26th, 2009
InsideRIA has a great writeup over here about all the new stuff available to all of us. I’m looking forward to digg deeper into this!
Getting up to speed with FlashBuilder
Posted by Niels in Adobe, Flash Builder on June 10th, 2009
Adobe labs has posted a series of tutorials that makes the switch from FlexBuilder to FlashBuilder a bit smoother.
You can watch them here.
Localizing Flex and AIR applications
Posted by Niels in AIR, Adobe, Development, Flex on June 10th, 2009
As of today the Lupo manager is available for download. That means that we no longer have to do the tedious manual task of localizing our applications by hand!
I think that this is one of the biggest time-savers in regards to localizations I’ve ever seen!
Check it out and download it here.
PHP in FlashBuilder
Posted by Niels in Adobe, Flash Builder on June 9th, 2009
The guys over at Adobe has put serious effort into making client/ server communication easier for us. I have little or no knowledge about advanced back-end implementations, but I do know my way around basic php service class implementation.
I am therefore very happy to see, that Adobe now has made it one of their missions to help me out doing just that. This goes along very nicely with one of my projects (CruddyBuddy, which by the way is not getting a lot of attention these days, sry.).
Anyways; on Adobe Labs there are two videos available on this topic. You can watch them here:
Flex your DataVisualization skills
Posted by Niels in Adobe, Design, Development, Flex on June 9th, 2009
and win a free copy of ILOG Elixir and Adobe creative suite 4 web premium
Greg Wilson et. al. posted a contest on his blog. The contest in all it simplicity is about visualizing data in the coolest way possible. Submissions will be judged Greg Wilson, Christophe Coenraets, James Ward and Ben Forta
They have made a few examples available on Greg Wilson’s blog, and have made a short tutorial for how to fetch data from the Tour de Flex server.
Read the full post over here, and remember your submissions have to be in at Friday, June 26th at noon ET.
When I’m not coding, sleeping or spending time with my family
Posted by Niels in Development, Teknology on June 8th, 2009
I’m reading.
Mostly literature, but occasionally I pick up a programming book. This post is about the latter. I’ve had this book ‘Head first design patterns‘ recommended to my by a good friend of mine.
Until now, I’ve finished about 1/5′th of the book, and I like it! It is very simple and easy to read. Moreover they have seen it as their mission to make the knowledge of the good old GoF easier accessible, and easier to remember. They are doing a good job IMHO, and I look very much forward to being done with the book, and hopefully have a lot of it remembered better than I do now.
A funny part of this is, that in my daily work i use Flex with the PureMVC framework (ATM. at least) and a lot of the implementations done in those frameworks, and the way I’ve been using them makes me go “Ah, off cause”, when I read the book.
Anyways, if you would like to know more about patterns and how to apply them, do not hesitate to grab this book. (If you are a developer and not know a lot about patterns, you really should!!)
And finally, do NOT let yourself scare away by the not so lucky (to say the least) layout of the front page and images in the book 
Flash player P2P
Posted by Niels in Adobe, Development, Flash, Teknology on June 3rd, 2009
Adobe just released a “new technology” – Well at least for the Flash player it is new.
It is called Status, and enables the Flash player to do P2P. What this means in real life is, that you can implement real time messaging and video chat that does not have to round trip the server!
I’m looking forward to the first P2P client made in this one, with similar functionality to eg. Utorrent or the like. It could be funny to make an cross-platform AIR P2P client with this technology. Another great thing could be a MMORPG made in AIR, but for that to be super efficient I think we have to wait for proper GPU support in the Flash player as well.
Only bad thing is, that they state this to be ‘free while in beta’, which I guess is the same as not free
Anyways if you are looking for functionality like this, you can grab it here. Also Ryan Stewart made a demo using Stratus over here.
Code auto complete in flex 3
Posted by Niels in Applications, Clever, Development, Flex on June 2nd, 2009
It has been an annoyance to watch the .Net guys write getters and setters in no time, while having to copy/ paste them for speed my self. I’ve been looking forward to the Flex builder 4, which supposedly has code snippets for getters/ setters, if sentences and so on. I can, however, not expect all of my development to switch to this platform just yet, as I will have to wait for it to come out of beta.
I the meantime, I’ve found this little app from Life hacker, which speeds up my life. It’s called ‘Texter’ an all it does is replace typed in text with a predetermined(by you) set of characters.
I’ve created ’snippets’ for if/else, getters for strings/ints and so on, to help me speed up my daily work. It even has a small statistics area to help you figure out, just how much time you have saved using the application.
Flash Catalyst roundtrip demo video
Posted by Niels in Adobe, Flash Builder on June 2nd, 2009
Done by Ryan Stewart Gives a nice walkthrough for the new Flash Catalyst. Amongst other things he shows the inplace editor flow for a vidual component in to Adobe Illustrator.
This all looks amazing. I cant wait to try it out.
Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst betas released yesterday!
Posted by Niels in Adobe, Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst on June 2nd, 2009
You can grab them both for free here.