http://flash-flex.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for flash-flex en Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:56:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2675013 unknown@DZone.com Our recent adventures in Flex/Flash land have required us to have our Flash and Flex components to talk to each other. Here are some ways in which you can get Flash and Flex to pass data from one to the other. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:56:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2675013flash-flexhow-toriaweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2674872 unknown@DZone.com We’ve a lot of experiences now with Web 2.0 technologies based on AJAX and JSF. Although, we hold pretty modern, almost standards-based stuff in our hands the maintenance hell for the markup-based presentation layer is pretty lively. Flex on Spring is the logical next step. Adobe delivers everything as Open Source to start Web 3.0. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:30:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2674872flash-flexjavaopen sourceweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2673806 unknown@DZone.com Build, steal, buy, or borrow… These would be the four basic ways you can make your applications a reality, pretty much regardless of the language you develop in. Flash and Flex development is no different in this regard. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:24:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2673806flash-flexopen sourcetoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2673663 unknown@DZone.com There are many parts of the web that Googlebot has not been able to access, but Google has been working to shrink that. Google wants to find content, and while many webmasters do not make it easy, Googlebot finds a way. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:58:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2673663flash-flexjavascriptweb 2.0web designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2672991 unknown@DZone.com "As an added convenience, Acrobat.com leverages Adobe AIR, so you can interact with Acrobat.com from your desktop. Acrobat.com on Adobe AIR is a small application that is included with your download of Adobe Reader 9. Available in select languages." Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:14:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2672991announcementflash-flexguiriaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2672452 unknown@DZone.com Do you want to create your own flex component? Or you simply don’t like the style of the component you need to use, or even there are some features you would like to have in your actual component? The following 5 tutorials will show how to achieve these goals. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:59:15 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2672452flash-flexhow-toriaweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2672203 unknown@DZone.com In the last months everyone noticed that everyday, new components and frameworks on 3D have been developed and released to the Flash community. I’m writing this article, because even me that check everyday lots of posts and articles in the Internet, start to be lost in the middle of lot’s of information and new resources available. So, i decide to make a list with all the available 3D tools for Flash. If I’ve missed some of them, i would be glad to add them to this list, just drop me a comment. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:21:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2672203flash-flexframeworksopen sourceweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2671782 unknown@DZone.com Index SWF content by playing them back (like a user) Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:01:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2671782announcementflash-flexriaweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2671267 unknown@DZone.com Flash Content Is Now Searchable Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:24:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2671267announcementflash-flexriaweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2670333 unknown@DZone.com Today, Adobe announces a new search engine solution, a special Flash Player that runs on the server to provide Search Engines a "real" look at what's inside your Flash and Flex files, including any dynamic data it pulls in. We talked to Justin Everett-Church from Adobe to get to know more. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:51:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2670333flash-flexNewsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2669370 unknown@DZone.com The Wall Street Journal is reporting that it looks like all of those rumors of of Flash for the iPhone are wrong. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:47:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2669370Appleflash-flexopinionriaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2663582 unknown@DZone.com In this tutorial I will be going over some of the basic elements to making a game in Flash. In this, being the first in a short series of tutorials on the subject, I will cover the main game loop and keyboard controls involved in an "Asteroids" type game. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:17:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2663582flash-flexgameshow-toProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2663349 unknown@DZone.com I get asked a lot of questions about my tree experiments, such as sakura and interactive elm. I thought I would write up a simple explanation to point people in the right direction. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:34:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2663349flash-flexProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2661592 unknown@DZone.com Dashboards are an easy way to let someone get clear picture on data, as also a great tool to compare different factors. With Flex you are able to create different kind of dashboards. These tutorials will teach how to do it. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:17:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2661592flash-flexframeworksriaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2659703 unknown@DZone.com Cliff Hall talking about his modularity support in puremvc multicore, which has just gone production ready. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:39:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2659703flash-flexframeworksProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2655757 unknown@DZone.com Here is a new pocket guide for Flex 3.0 that somehow slipped past me. I haven't seen this book mentioned anywhere. Things have been mega busy over the last few months so that could explain it. Three things I really like: Flex, O'Reilly and a pocket sized book. These pocket guides are great for reading while standing in lines, on airplanes etc. I want to get a copy of this little guy ASAP! Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:24:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2655757booksflash-flexProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2655600 unknown@DZone.com Peter Armstrong, author of Flexible Rails and Enterprise Flexible Rails, has put together an overview of Flex and Rails. Flexible Rails: Flex 3 on Rails 2 shows you how Flex and Rails can be used together, Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:35:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2655600announcementflash-flexframeworksrubyProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2652168 unknown@DZone.com Fast, out-of-the-box 3D on the web remains an elusive dream. Theatre Magique has an informative review of the most active 3D flash libraries (e.g. Papervision). He notes that while the applications are promising, the performance is still lacking, and that the much publicized 3D capability in Flash 10 (the next version currently in Beta) doesn’t really help. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:44:19 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2652168flash-flexweb 2.0web designweb servicesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2650893 unknown@DZone.com Tweaking heap size jvm arguments for better performance Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:27:50 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2650893eclipseflash-flexriaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2650637 unknown@DZone.com We all know the big mistakes Sun did in inventing RIAs with Applets more than ten years ago, and now finding itself in the position of chasing competitors. But in the end, in the last couple of years they have changed direction, made a lot of announcements and released new software, working or in preview, addressing the desktop problems. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:36:14 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2650637Appleflash-flexjavaopinionProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2649962 unknown@DZone.com For some time I’ve been planning to use FIVe3D of Mathieu Badimon, in Flex, not in Flash. I’ve been trying to make it work but no success ’till now. Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:55:46 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2649962flash-flexguihow-toProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2649836 unknown@DZone.com Really fascinating 3D face!!! Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:07:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2649836flash-flexProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2648694 unknown@DZone.com A design document over the flex compiler. Written by Adobe, for those who have to work on it (the compiler). Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:16:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2648694flash-flexProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2648432 unknown@DZone.com Adobe AIR, the SDK & runtime which has become the popular choice for building desktop-enabled web applications, has been updated with enhanced support for internalization. With AIR v1.1, Adobe has bumped the number of supported languages to ten including Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Spanish & Brazilian Portuguese and included support for double-byte keyboard input. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:10:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2648432announcementflash-flexriaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2647928 unknown@DZone.com Flash performance and usage is abysmal on current mobile devices that support playback. Mobile device processors — including the iPhone’s — simply aren’t fast enough to handle most Flash-laden sites. Flash Lite, the scaled down standard designed specifically for mobile devices, is even too much for most devices, and isn’t widely used.
 Jens Chr Brynildsen, a Flash expert who maintains a number resources for the standard including Flash Magazine, told us that the iPhone’s processor — a 600+ MHz ARM processor that actually runs at 412MHz — simply won’t pass muster. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:31:10 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2647928Appleflash-flexreviewsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2646321 unknown@DZone.com I’m always interested in performance comparisons. In the RIA world, two that you may have seen are Bubblemark and more recently GUIMark. Those tests look at graphics; I thought it would be fun to look at some tight code in a loop. Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:31:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2646321flash-flexguiMicrosoftreviewsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2645505 unknown@DZone.com Following this introduction step by step then you can build your beautiful skin Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:47:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2645505flash-flexProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2644293 unknown@DZone.com It may be going a little far to hype up Cocoa for Windows + Flash Killer = SproutCore. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:37:13 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2644293ajaxflash-flexopiniontrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2641925 unknown@DZone.com Some guy sharing 10 tips using PureMVC. Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:08:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2641925flash-flexframeworksProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2641048 unknown@DZone.com Last week I spent a few hours with Dick Wall of the Java Posse working on an application which combines Google App Engine, Adobe AIR, and Flex. This was a fun experiment that turned into a pretty cool application. The application, named QuickFix, sends an image to Google App Engine which does an “I’m Feeling Lucky” transformation on the image and sends it back. Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:47:38 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2641048flash-flexriaweb servicesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2640063 unknown@DZone.com Three ways to pass data from Flex to Flash and from Flash back to Flex. Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:34:17 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2640063flash-flexProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2638712 unknown@DZone.com Yesterday we pointed out an image on Apple’s Web site that is indicative of an iPhone 3G displaying Adobe Flash content, but may have simply been a case of the company’s graphic design team cropping a Desktop browser image to fit the device’s screen. We’ve now discovered another bit of evidence that, albeit similarly speculative, would seem to show an iPhone 3G making use of Flash. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:53:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2638712Appleflash-flexmobileProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2638626 unknown@DZone.com 10 Different charting solutions for the web using JavaScript, Flash, Silverlight, and Java. Surprisingly no mention of Google Charts. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:00:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2638626flash-flexjavajavascriptProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2638433 unknown@DZone.com Hi 
 Here is a flash player for live streaming, using Adobe Flash,Adobe Flash Media Encoder, Adobe Flash Media Server.
 Check it now. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:40:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2638433flash-flexserverProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2638175 unknown@DZone.com Singleton and multi-threading in Flex Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:37:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2638175flash-flexhow-tojavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2637993 unknown@DZone.com Curious about what kind of apps were really being used in the enterprise, we contacted Adobe to get some details. What we found out was that several big name companies have already starting using AIR on the corporate desktop, using apps to provide everything from real-time informational updates to employee directories. Below is a look at some of the apps in use today. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:46:12 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2637993flash-flexriatrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2637950 unknown@DZone.com In this post, I will discuss a specific area of the two current major architectural frameworks in flex, PureMVC and Cairngorm, namely how they apply patterns of GUI architecture. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:21:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2637950flash-flexframeworksguiriaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2637375 unknown@DZone.com Acrobat 9.0, which is slated for public release in July, will offer far more, allowing users to distribute slickly formatted presentation packages, complete with Flash-based video and animation. A related set of online collaboration tools is aimed at giving Adobe a foothold in the growing market for hosted Web applications. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:13:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2637375flash-flexweb 2.0web designweb servicesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2636853 unknown@DZone.com Some ew Adobe Thermo Screenshots Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:25:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2636853flash-flextoolsweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2636775 unknown@DZone.com Shows how to layer SWF files on top of Grails GSP files to allow graceful degradation of websites and enable searchable and crawlable content for Flex/Flash rich media applications. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:46:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2636775flash-flexframeworksjavaweb 2.0Programming http://web2announcer.com/go/2635098 unknown@DZone.com In this final part on building a medium to large scale flex or Air app using Cairngorm, I will look at how I approach the service locator and use flex builders built in responder mechanism to handle service call responses. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:55:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2635098flash-flexframeworksmethodologyriaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2634864 unknown@DZone.com I have another simple but neat, little tutorial here on Flash CS3 filters. This time I’m not using Tweens at all. Our effect is going to use the MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE event to create the illusion of a light source coming from our cursor. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:06:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2634864flash-flexweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2634757 unknown@DZone.com Curl compares the size of their source code for a simple application to the code for a similar JavaFX application. 
 Are other RIA bloggers willing to post the code for their favorite RIA technology? It's a pretty short program and very GUI centric, but its a fun to compare solutions all the same. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:52:51 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2634757flash-flexguiother languagesriaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2634635 unknown@DZone.com FusionCharts just released version 2 of their charting package under a free license. The Blog/code/sample application demonstrate how to take the free charting widget and turn it into a dojo widget that can be used in your application. The charting component is drop in ready for your dojo application. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:07:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2634635ajaxflash-flexjavascriptweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2634431 unknown@DZone.com In this discussion, I will focus on the basics of Flex, a web development framework based on Flash. The first section will be about the whys and wherefores of Flex. The second section will cover the steps involving the development of a Flex-based application. In the third and fourth sections, a real world application using Flex will be developed. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:22:47 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2634431flash-flexProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2633372 unknown@DZone.com Adobe Flash can seem like a complex program to learn. One reason for this seeming complexity is that you can use it for so many different things, such as cartoon animations, media players, and sophisticated software. This tutorial is suitable for you if you're opening Flash for the first time. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:59:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2633372flash-flexhow-toweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2632728 unknown@DZone.com I sat down to see if I could figure out what the hottest Java web framework is recently and was surprised at the results... once I started including non-Java web frameworks into my search. Are Java developers just fighting over scraps? Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:32:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2632728.netflash-flexframeworksjavaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2631443 unknown@DZone.com In Part 1 we created a new Flex project and setup the classes we that will be used to support our application architecture. In this part we will look at how we build our application around these classes. Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:08:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2631443flash-flexhow-toriaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2630680 unknown@DZone.com I remember the first time I saw the Mini Configurator on the Mini USA site. I was blown away -- I loved just playing with the colors and the options -- it was a truly immersive experience of the kind that only Flash applications can offer, and I'm sure it sold more than a few Minis. Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:42:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2630680flash-flexhow-toriaProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2630559 unknown@DZone.com Are you a Java developer with the thought: “What the f*** is up with all the flex hype here in the Java camp? Is flex not just the same old closed flash world like always?”. If so, then this post is for you. Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:51:46 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2630559flash-flexjavaopiniontrendsProgramming