Flex Past, Present and Future – Adobe’s View

Now to conclude Adobe published there view’s on Flex and its future by releasing a whitepaper. This whitepaper is about Adobe’s plan in relation to Flex that is now donated to Apache Foundation. This is a well-documented white paper that covers history, evolution, use cases and future of Flex. Here I am listing key details [...]

Adobe Flex now Apache Flex

End of the last year (Nov – 2011) Adobe planed to donate Flex to Apache foundation and now Flex is officially accepted by Apache Software Foundation(ASF). For more info on this check the mail thread conversation on voting at Apache – http://markmail.org/message/7q22pdviyxvkwbf5. This year 2012 is the first year of Flex to live outside Adobe [...]

Flex SDK 4.6

You must be knowing that Adobe has released Flex SDK 4.6. Thanks to Adobe Flex SDK team to keep enhancing the SDK. This release of SDK is majorly focus on mobile and tablet apps development. Flex SDK 4.6 bundled with new mobile optimized Spark components. In mobile or tablet apps development major area of consideration [...]

Adobe Flash Player and its future

Flash is travelled very long distance in last decade, from Macromedia Flash to Adobe Flash. This Flash word is always in tech buzz. Initially it was popular in animator group then gradually attracted the attention of application developers and became a de-facto for RIA applications. Flash is always preferable for developing richest content and deployed [...]

Spring + BlazeDS Integration API for Flex based Enterprise Apps

In my last project assignment I found Spring BlazeDS Integration API is very fruitful. It really helps developer to focus on only business implementation of application and forget about backend server level configuration. Spring BlazeDS Integration is a top-level Spring project, and a component of the complete Spring Web stack. This project’s purpose is to [...]

iSteve – An Innovation Machine

We lost a great innovator, great entrepreneur and creative person Steven P. Jobs. Steve Jobs an innovative mind behind the success of iMac, iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iPad and many more products. Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. – Mr. Cook (CEO Apple). In more [...]

ABC of Swiz Framework

I am currently looking into a Flex application framework for my upcoming Flex Enterprise project. In Flex application development Cairngorm and PureMVC framework is a de facto standards. For my project we are looking into a possibility to introduced Swiz framework for application architecture. Swiz official website stated this as “The brutally simple micro-architecture for [...]

AS3 Tips – Uses of rarely used operator

As a developer we are habitual to use commonly used approach in programming. There are several alternate and optimized way are also available and we need to give a chance to them as well. ActionScript 3 introduced various operators for specifying how to combine, compare, or modify the values of an expression. From these operators [...]

Adobe’s Edge – A Gift To HTML5 World

This month Adobe gifted a new web animations tool called Edge to HTML5 world. This tool is for web designer for creating interactive graphics on website using HTML5. Currently this is a public preview release version of Edge. According to Adobe this new tool Edge will let web coders bring animation similar to that created [...]

Adobe Muse : Build stylish website without writing code

Adobe released a preview version of interesting code free website designer tool called Muse. This tool is 100% code free, without writing a single line of code you can build your stylish and attractive website. This is really interesting, I downloaded the preview version from Adobe lab and really enjoyed working on this. Adobe already [...]