Thinking in Flex
That may be a great news for all the newbie in Flex, accordign to Michaël Chaize, Bruce Eckel (the author from Thinking in Java) and James Ward are preparing a book for developers willing to learn Flex. Ahmet 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
Category Archives: Flex
Adobe offers to Google and Yahoo! Flash Player Technology – Is It Really A Good News?
I’ve just read via the AXNA that Adobe, Google and Yahoo! worked together to allow SWF searchability. My first thought was ‘finally they made it’ 🙂 But while reading the FAQ I’ve been a little disappointed by how this indexation seems to happen: […]The Flash Player technology, optimized for search spiders, runs a SWF file… Read More »
Applying ‘Semantic Web’ standard for SWF
Recently Digg made an official adoption of RDFa (a set of extensions to XHTML being proposed by the W3C). While watching a tutorial about RDFa (below video) I asked myself how it could be possible to do it for Flash/ Flex document. In fact bringing RDFa to a SWF itself is not possible, as I… Read More »
Holy Grail: SEO Model for Flash and Flex Content
The discussion about SEO (search engines optimization) and SWF content(from Flash or Flex) has been long and turbulent. Fortunately this discussion is coming to an end as now a proven solution exists. I made yesterday a presentation about it at the Adobe User Group of Geneva. Here is the solution I prefer: using XSL (eXtensible… Read More »
SEO for Flash and Flex Presentation at Next AUGG meeting
During our next event at the Adobe User Group of Geneva I will make an introduction to SEO strategies and the best practice to extend them to SWF powered content. This presentation could also be named SEO for Rich Internet Application. As it is just an introduction I’ll try to make it in 30 minutes… Read More »
Flex 3: Now Free to All Students
That is a big news! The Flex Builder 3 Professional is now free for all students and edu customer: Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro is available for free to all education customers. This includes all students, faculty and staff of eligible education institutions. www.flexregistration.com Wondering why you finished your study so early? 🙂 Ahmet … Read More »
Type Parameters: How to Force Type Check of a Collection Class
This apply with EcmaScript 4.0,Francis Cheng made a clear explanation of how to use Type Parameters to add type checking in a collection class. Very useful, now when will AS3 and JS be compatible with this new format ? Well be patient (and try to stay young and fresh :p) Ahmet 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
Convincing your Boss to Use AIR – Step #1
In an over charged world of projects management and ideas, it sometimes hard to gather the attention to the ultimate decider (your boss or yourself) to use new technologies. I started at the beginning of this week to seed (and water it ) my boss brain with new possibilities with AIR. Some techniques worked… Read More »
Programmatic Visualizations in AIR – Drawing API for Business Needs
Interesting online presentation by Andrew Trice about ‘Programmatic Visualizations in AIR’ with Flex. Full of nice examples, it’s already a bit old (November 2007) but you may have missed it, as I did 🙂 Access to the recorded presentation (Adobe ID is needed) Download source code Ahmet 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
Why? Videos from the AUGG :)ooooo
Monday we had the AUGG (Adobe User Group Genève) meeting to celebrate the release of Adobe AIR and FLEX 3.0. I had a camera recorder during the meeting and I asked several questions (Why AIR? Why Flex? Why Flash? Why Not Silverlight?). The answer are funny & serious at the same time 🙂 If you… Read More »
Flash is not open-source for the moment, but we are not against it
Interesting article from Ecrans.fr where they interviewed Simon Hayhurst, director of video numeric products at Adobe, and Frédéric Massy, marketing director, about the presence of Adobe and his future. Read the translated version (originally text is in French). Here are a few interesting quotes: […]Flash is not in fact open-source for the moment, but we… Read More »
Adobe AIR is now 1.0! Welcome in a New World :=)
Monday 25th of February, AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime), already considered as a top ten technology by Technology Review (The MIT magazine) for offline web applications is send out in the Galaxy. For more information you can also read the article from the New York Times on the impact of AIR. If you didn’t started yet… Read More »
Adobe Flex 3 Builder is Out in the Galaxy!
Under the strange title of ‘ A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…’ Ted Patrick has just published a screenshot of the Flex Builder 3 while loading, so two month after the public Flex 3 Beta 3 the Flex team at Adobe finished their work 🙂 Version 3 build 3.0.194161 I’m afraid… Read More »
February 2008 Meeting, Adobe User Group Geneva
If you missed the news, please don’t forget that we will have our monthly meeting February the 25th at The Nomades. Notre prochaine séance AUGG se déroulera le lundi 25 février à 18h30 au Nomades (map). Au programme : – Une présentation des nouvelles fonctionnalités de Flex 3, par Thierry Bertossa – Une présentation sur… Read More »
Get ready for ActionScript 4.0!
As you certainly know, ActionScript 3.0 is based on ECMAScript language. The new edition of ECMAScript is in preparation (ECMA-262 Edition 4) and will most certainly shape the future of ActionScript 4.0. Colin Moock is going to do a lecture at FITC about these changes. You can access his lectures notes ‘What’s new in ECMAScript… Read More »