Anand Vardhan made a great article on choosing between Flash or Flex when working on a project to make an SWF file. The article is titled “Adobe Flash Or Adobe Flex: Make Your Choice“. An example is given when to choose Flash and when to choose Flex.
Charles Bihis posted his slides and examples used in his talk in 360 Flex Conference Tuesday morning. His talk was titled “101- Designing PHP Based RIAs for Richer Internet Experiences“.
Pixelfumes has a list of article on writing Flash application for Nintendo Wii. The list is available here.
Mashing-up is one of the hot techniques on web development lately. More and more websites are publishing APIs to use their contents. Amazon has enormous amount of APIs available for web developers.
Switch On The Code posted an article/tutorial on “How to use Flex to get Music Info from Amazon Web Services” by using Flex 3.0.
Ready made APIs for Flash/Flex developers. The list contains 22 AS3 APIs that should save Flash and Flex developers a ton of time. More..
Golgotha from Search-This asked 3 Flash master 5 question which are: “What do you see as Flash’s key asset(s)?â€, “What do you think is Flash’s biggest weakness?â€, “If you could change one thing about Flash what would it be?â€, “Has Flash’s popularity peaked?†and “What will Flash look like in 3 years?â€.
ActionscriptCheatSheet blog posted a new cheatsheet for Adobe AIR. You can download it here. “This is a seven page PDF that outlines all of the new packages and classes specific to Adobe AIR Beta 1”.
Charlie Key wrote a great article on how to bridge between Flex and Javascript. Bridging means Javascript and Flex’s Actionscript codes can interacte with each other. Great blog, I’ll add it to my feeds!
Adobe Flex Doc Team released the Flex 3 Charting Documentation.
The entire set of charting chapters is included here in one PDF because the organization has changed so much. I added a new chapter and consolidated some sections from other chapters.
New sections:
CHAPTER: Displaying Data and Labels
“Using data labels”
“Using per-item fills”
“Omitting days on a DateTimeAxis” (aka, work-week axis)
Flex Ajax Bridge is a small library to make a communication bridge between Flex/Flash and Actionscript that is going to turn your world upside down. You can call actionscript functions by javascript in run-time using this bridge library. Here is an example and a review.
Good job adobe.. Keeps surprising me more!
Next we need full right-to-left languages support!
