Entries from Deitte.com tagged with 'flex'
How RIA Advertising Works at 360Flex
I'm excited to announce that I'll be giving a talk, How RIA Advertising Works, at 360Flex. You can hear me at lunch on Monday, March 8th. I've been building advertising SDKs for more than a year at Brightcove, and I...
Ten Reasons to Use Flash
I was handed very odd timing for a brown-bag presentation last week. The talk was scheduled months ago for an overview on new Flex and Flash tools, but as the time approached the iPad and HTML5 "discussions" in the blog...
mxmlc: fitter, happier, more productive
Below is the presentation I'll be giving tomorrow night at the Boston Flash User Group, Brightcove edition. The avid fan will notice that it's partially material rehashed from this blog. But I investigated a few new things, and the discussion...
Thanks For Voting!
After my lament on Flash/Flex bug voting three weeks ago, I was very happy to see all of the votes on the bugs mentioned: EventDispatcher should expose list of attached listeners went from 4 votes to 16 votes. Include FlexPMD...
Updated IFrame Component
The Flex IFrame component has been updated again to fix issues and improve the code. More information can be found on netthreads. I have a feeling that a lot of the issues I've mentioned in Don't Use IFrames for HTML...
Why Don't You Vote for Flex Bugs?
I posted a month ago on My Requests for the Flash Platform, and I've been surprised at the lack of votes for the items I listed. Let me explain why. My logs show that the blog post was viewed 840...
My Requests for the Flash Platform
Ted Patrick wrote last month about The Future of the Flash Platform and asked people to be more vocal about the features and bug fixes they're looking for. Here's my in-depth lobbying session. Below are my top requests for the...
Flex Compiler Extensions
In the latest Flex 4 SDK builds, you can write Flex compiler extensions which allow custom Java code to be inserted into the compiler. This is thanks to SDK-18718 and the work of Andrew Westberg. I'm very interested to see...
Flash Builder 4: It's Fast
I just did some stopwatch performance tests of Flash Builder 4 against Flex Builder 3, using the same files that I did for the faster Flex 3 SDK tests. Here are the results: Build All, in seconds, after changing two...
Image Effects in AS3
If you want to know more about manipulating images in Flash, I have an excellent new book to recommend. It's Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Image Effects by Todd Yard, a coworker of mine at Brightcove. I was the technical editor of...
The Demand for IFrames in Flex
No matter what I've tried, the demand for iframes in Flex doesn't go away. Recently there's been a number of interesting comments on an old post of mine about Embedding HTML in a Flex application using an IFrame. Dennis wrote...
Brightcove and Adobe Announce Alliance
I was happy to see the announcement of a strategic alliance between Brightcove and Adobe. The alliance will focus on a few areas: long-form HD video, content protection for video, Adobe Creative Suite integration, collaboration on Adobe's new player framework...
Boston Flash Platform User and Design Patterns and Beer at Brightcove Group
The Flash platform user group at the Brightcove office has been going through a bit of an identity crisis lately. The sessions used to be focused on design patterns, but lately we've been veering off into the general Flash platform...
Bindable Getters and Getting Faster
We had a "bring your questions" session at our last Boston Flash User Group meeting at Brightcove, and I thought three of the items I answered would be helpful for more people to read. Bindable Getters: If you're creating a...
Fighting Brain Crack: Goodbye swclibrary.com
I read John Wilker's post on fighting brain crack, getting rid of the ideas that stick around in your head forever even though nothing is done with them. Immediately one thing came to mind: swclibrary.com I registered this domain name,...
Flex 4 Compiler Speed
The piece that I've been most excited about in Flex 4 is the faster Flex compiler. So I was interested to see Enrique's post on some of the speedups. To quote, "The performance test suite went from full compiling in...
A Faster Flex 3 SDK
At Brightcove I've spent some time creating faster Flex 3 SDKs by merging some changes from the Flex 4 SDK. It's not a lot of changes, but it makes a fairly significant improvement in compilation speeds in Flex Builder. I...
How Do You Speed Up Flex Builder?
I've been spending some time at Brightcove trying to figure out ways to speed up Flex Builder for some of the larger applications we're developing here. I have a few things I'm working on myself, but I wanted to hear...
Even if You Don't Write Music, Check Out Noteflight
I'm not a composer myself, but I've had a lot of fun playing with Joe Berkovitz's new application Noteflight. It's a pretty amazing Flex app, even if you can't write anything more complicated than Mary Has a Little Lamb. You...
Flex 4: Two-way Bindings and Other Improvements
Reading through the subversion commits, I've seen a number of interesting changes for Flex 4. Carol Frampton added inline support for two-way binding. Using the syntax of "@{expr}", you can now more simply support two-way binding. Paul Reilly has submitted...
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