Astro is getting closer to a release. A new beta version is out and you can read the announcement on Adobe’s site: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/. Please read also the release notes here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenotes.html.
What is new? To be short…

Fullscreen Keyboard Access - now you can catch key events for non-printing keys (arrows, shift, enter, tab, space, etc)
Enhanced Audio […]

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Some times ago I started to get interested to get an Adobe Certification. I started reading documents on Adobe’s website and started to ask people at Adobe and community people that already got some certifications. This is what I found…
Available Certifications
There are 3 (three) types of certifications:

per product certification: Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified […]

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The Flex 3 is already released but the guys at Adobe don’t waste their time. They already started to work on Flex 4 - codename Gumbo. The final release is planned for 2009 and the first beta for late 2008.
The promises are:

easy skinning
improved states, effects and layout
backward compatibility
inline states

For more see these links:
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+4
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Enhanced+States+Syntax
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This is a great news! I’ve been waiting for this to happen for a long time. If you don’t believe me that Google is indexing flash try to search on Google by this kind of phrases: “flex filetype:swf“; and you’ll get a list of SWF files that were indexed by Google.
How does Google do this? […]

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MatrixGrid is a complex component I made that displays a bi-dimensional array and gives the possibility to change its values using combo boxes. These are the changes you can do:

change one single item

change one row at once
change one column at once

The MatrixGrid component receives for objects:

array with the possible values in each combo box
the […]

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Today I found a new 3D engine: AS3 ROXIK Sharikura 3D Library. It is great from what I could see from their demos. Interesting is this demo where you can add more and more object to the animation but the animation is not jerky.
The library at this moment is not released but Masayuki Kido […]

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Today I found out about a interesting job opportunity in flex.
Location is Bucharest, Romania.
Starting Part-time and moving towards full-time.
If anyone is interested please send a resume to qbic@qbic.ro
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Although Flex Builder and Eclipse do have nice debug utilities built in, today I needed a function/method in Actionscript to display into the current application some variables’ content. So I started to implement a var_dump alike function (var_dump from PHP language).
So I started and I made the Debug class that will implement the static dump […]

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In a previous article I explained how to use FIVe3D with Flex and because fl.motion is not included into the Flex Framework we had to find out a workaround. I commented out the lines that referenced fl.motion but Kelvin Luck found another way: “copy the classes from Flash CS3 Actionscript framework into the project”. So […]

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This will be a simple solution to be able to scroll to the last added row in a data grid. First of all I’ll explain what I mean and what I encountered when I needed to implement it.
The expected behavior is after adding a new row into a data grid, it should scroll to […]

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