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 [...]

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 [...]

Digging into Custom Metadata Tag in Flex and ActionScript

The basic lineaments of Flex are tag based programming and use of metadata injection. Several times we used metadata tags in our Flex application and most of us are very familiar with Flex SDK defined metadata i.e. [Bindable], [Event], [Effect] and many more. All these are assigned and SDK defined metadata tags, apart from this [...]

A closer look of mx_internal namespace

ActionScript 3 is an Object Oriented Programming language, and here access modifiers are used for handling declaration visibility. The common access modifiers in Object Oriented Programming are Public, Private and Protected, apart from this in AS3 new access modifier namespace is introduced. This is used when we want more control over who can access class [...]