When developing RIAs it’s generally best practice to provide the user with feedback when data is loading. If you’re familiar with Flash MX Pro 2004 then you’ve most likely seen the ProgressBar component. I wanted to take a minute and demonstrate a simple example of using the ProgressBar component that ships with Flex. [...]

I recently finished an article for M2M Magazine discussing developing M2M applications for the Nokia 12. If you’re really bored please feel free to get it a read and let me know what you think. Also, if you’re interested in keeping up with M2M then I would recommend checking out MachineBlog.
http://www.m2mmag.com/print/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=226

I posted last week about the forward/back browser buttons and how Flex has built-in support to handle them. I also mentioned that I would follow up with a quick fix for handling the browser refresh problem. The basic approach is to use a SharedObject (aka Flash Cookie) to store the currently selected tab [...]

Many of us are aware of the inherent problem with Flash and browser navigation. The browser buttons are generally independent of the Flash movie and lead to all sorts of problems. For example, let’s say you have an app with several screens that is guiding the user through a checkout process. If [...]

Now that I have my non-commercial Flex license kickin’, I’m going to start providing some in depth information about Macromedia Flex. I plan on starting simple over the next few weeks and lead into some more complex RIA’s. I think it makes sence to demonstrate the flexibility of the Flex classes and components [...]

I recently finished a beta version of a product that I’ve been wanting to develop for a while. With the recent licensing of the Macromedia Flash player by Nokia, no longer will I have to worry about developing Symbian applications. Symbian is an extremely powerful OS for mobile devices, yet it’s also very [...]

Macromedia has been generous enough to donate a copy of Flex 1.5 to me for just the price of shipping. I contacted them about a non-commercial version of the product so that I could blog about it as well as write some tutorials. I’ve been using the developer version but am going to [...]

Over the past several months I’ve been dabbling with Macromedia’s Flex technology. We’ve come a long ways since the late 90’s where Flash was being used mainly as an animation tool and there were only a handful of developers that used Flash to build dynamic applications. I don’t want to get into detail [...]

I’ve been running Macromedia Flex on Windows for the past few months. Tonight I decided to take the plunge and install Flex on my Linux box. I allotted about 2-3 hours to get Flex running on Fedora Core 3.
I figured that there would be a few tweaks necessary to get Flex running. [...]