Thanks to everyone who attended the Putting a Flex Face on Alfresco webinar. I hope you found it useful. If you didn’t get to attend the live webinar, that’s OK: the good folks at Alfresco recorded it, and you can view it here .
I cleaned up the code a bit and added some comments, and [...]
In case you haven’t heard, Alfresco is an impressive open-source content management system. And of course you probably wouldn’t be reading this blog if you didn’t already know that Flex is a killer technology for building world-class user interfaces. Seems like someone should put the two technologies together, no?
As it turns out, Alfresco has [...]
In a prior post I promised to provide some thoughts on the AdvancedDataGrid and XML. Well, that post was written about 4 months ago, and I’m finally delivering. I’ve put together a simple demo to show how the AdvancedDataGrid works with XML data:
Each of the first three tabs works with a different XML file. [...]
A very interesting article in the New York Times describes a paradox of medical technology: Health care providers bear most of the cost of the technology, but their share of the savings is meager and trickles in slowly (insurance companies reap most of the savings). Thus, the doctors shell out large sums of money for [...]
I had a good time at FlexManiacs. It was great to see some old friends and make new ones. I also got to sit in on some interesting presentations.
I’ve posted the files from my own presentations as follows…
Introduction to ECMAScript for XML (E4X) - This download includes a PDF of the slides, plus two Flex [...]
In his latest Alertbox column, Jakob Nielsen discusses a research study that could prove to be invaluable to our understanding of how users behave on the Web. The great thing about this study is that it tracked the participants’ behavior as they followed their own usual routines, so it gives some clear insight into how [...]
First off, I need to thank Ricky Bacon for bringing this to the attention of the Flashcoders list. Click on the image below to see the full-size screen shot, and you’ll see what happens at this particular AOL page when you visit it using the Debug version of the Flash Player. Make sure to read [...]
In the grand scheme of things, this may not seem like a big question. However, as a developer who likes to reference the API documentation frequently, it seems significant. The question is this: Why does the Flex 3 Help feature bury the API documentation when the Flex 2 Help feature made it so readily available?
Here [...]
One of the great advantages that Flash (and by extension Flex) has over Ajax is that you don’t have to worry about browser idiosyncrasies or versions: If your application heavily depends on JavaScript and/or CSS, you could find major issues whenever a new browser version comes out. By contrast, Flash 4 movies that I built [...]
UPDATE: A revised version of this comparison has been posted; click here to read it.
I have written favorably about both Cairngorm and PureMVC, and this has led a number of people to ask which framework I prefer. Rather than make a blanket statement that one framework is better than the other, it seems more profitable [...]
