One of a handful of local storage options for PhoneGap applications is the localStorage solution which is actually part of the W3C specs. It provides access to a W3C Storage interface since we are just dealing with HTML5 in PhoneGap.… Read More

The SkinnableViewStack is nearly identical to my ViewStack component except that it extends SkinnableContainer, rather than my DeferredContentGroup, to support skins. My use-case for a skinnable version of the ViewStack is when defining views or components that need to have… Read More

Bug fixed for IE in HTML mode when zoomDragMode (FlexPaper Zine) was set to false Fixed an issue related to ‘BookView’ and recreating annotations Issue fixed related to the text not being sharp when opening Zine in full screen for… Read More

Awhile back, I created a GroupStack as a quick and dirty Spark implementation of the ViewStack I needed at the time.… Read More

I wanted to support internationalisation on a pretty complex Flex project that was sharing some Components and Skins using Flex Libraries (swc files). I have spent a good amount of time searching for documentation and its just not there, the… Read More

Whereas Flex 3 included built-in support for deferred content creation in all of the Halo containers, Flex 4 only offers this feature with the SkinnableContainer Spark container. With the DeferredContentGroup, you can utilize deferred instantiation in the lighter-weight Spark Group… Read More

There arn’t the normal set of unconferences this year as normally found at MAX; FITC, 360, and others are pretty well absent from the community pavilion this time around. The good news is that thee is a new community based… Read More

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Introducing FlowMVC: A reference architecture & MVC extensions for developers using Sencha ExtJS or Sencha Touch with DeftJS. Take what you already know and go with it… just code with the Flow. FlowMVC builds on the work of DeftJS, Sencha… Read More

A few months back I had to debug an Adobe Flex application that used Adobe Message Format (AMF) for client-server communication. For readers unfamiliar with Adobe’s Flex/Flash stack, AMF is a binary RPC communication protocol, usually powered by Adobe’s BlazeDS… Read More

A few months back I had to debug an Adobe Flex application that used Adobe Message Format (AMF) for client-server communication. For readers unfamiliar with Adobe’s Flex/Flash stack, AMF is a binary RPC communication protocol, usually powered by Adobe’s BlazeDS… Read More

I've been at this for a bit, but now it's official: I'm now based in Münster, and working at fruux as a co-founder / tech-lead. The feeling of having this amount of control over a product is great. We've also… Read More

I've been at this for a bit, but now it's official: I'm now based in Münster, and working at fruux as a co-founder / tech-lead. The feeling of having this amount of control over a product is great. We've also… Read More

Building GPU-Accelerated Mobile Application Interfaces with Starling and Feathers Apache Flex is great for application UI… but it isn’t GPU-accelerated :( New versions of Adobe AIR perform quite spectacularly on mobile and really blaze when tapping into the device GPU.… Read More

More people should create great collections. They’re a simple and effective way to market your items, keep track of your favorites, and flexibly group items by theme or function. Last year we shared some hints for making the most of… Read More

I’ve been doing a lot of digging around in PhoneGap lately. This dovetails nicely with my Edge Animate and Edge Reflow work – but I also see it as an extension of my work with Adobe AIR and Flash Player… Read More

I had the opportunity this month to speak at the Rocky Mountain Adobe User Group about gaming, Flash, Adobe, et cetera alongside Jun Heider who talked about Apache Flex. Here are my slides: Adobe and the Flash Gaming Landscape from… Read More