ActionScript 3.0 made working with XML much easier than prior versions. In ActionScript 3.0 XML is treated as a native data type. In this article I’ll show you just how easy it is to work with XML and Flex.
Learning: Flex and XML as easy as 1…2…3
June 23rd, 2009JavaFX 1.2: An introduction for developers
June 8th, 2009As a developer I’m starting to become somewhat picky with the technologies I spend my time to learn since there are so many “pet” programming languages, new toolkits, new frameworks, etc. JavaFX launched approximately a year ago. I’ve already got a pretty good grasp on Adobe’s Flash/Flex tools as well as a working knowledge of Microsoft’s Silverlight. I have limited time in how much I can digest new technologies so I don’t like to spend my time with something I won’t potentially use. With that said I’ve recently taken a look at JavaFX to see what it might offer.
Getting Java and Flex talking via XML
May 22nd, 2009Yesterday I showed you how to get Perl and Flex communicating via XML. Today I’ll do the same thing but this time with Java, in particular a Java Servlet.
Getting Perl and Flex talking via XML
May 21st, 2009Balsamiq Mockups: A Review
May 15th, 2009I had been looking for a reason to install Adobe AIR since it was launched last year. Unfortunately I’ve never found an AIR application that I really needed. That’s not to say there aren’t good ones out there, its just I never found one that I really had to have (and don’t get me wrong, I think AIR is a good technology). This has now changed…let me explain.
Building a multiuser chat application with the Union Platform and Flex Builder 3
May 5th, 2009Several years ago there was a socket server for Flash called Unity. Well, recently Unity has been reborn (re-written actually) as the Union Platform. The same developers (Colin Moock and Derek Clayton) are still hard at work making connecting Flash/Flex applications via sockets as easy as possible. Keep in mind the spec for Union’s message format is open so I’d assume you could connect clients like Silverlight, thick clients, etc. to Union as well. This is going to be an excellent platform for building online games, chat applications, and much more.
Adobe and Facebook team up to deliver an official Facebook API for Actionscript 3.0
March 31st, 2009Up until now I believe the only “official” API for Facebook was the PHP one built by Facebook. Well that has now changed.
Get the information and goodies here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/facebook/
Tutorial: Hello World using ASP.NET MVC
March 26th, 2009Microsoft recently released ASP.NET MVC at their Mix 2009 conference this past week in Las Vegas. What we will do today is learn the most basic of all web applications, the infamous “Hello World“.
Silverlight Multi-Player Library
March 16th, 2009For the Silverlight developers out there Cameron Albert is working on a library that he will soon be releasing on Codeplex to help make multi-player games using Silverlight. Cameron already has launched a beta game called Perenthia.
Getting XML into Flex from Ruby on Rails
March 1st, 2009This is going to be a simple tutorial to show you how easy it is to use Flex to read in XML from a Ruby on Rails application.
