This month, Best of Open Source Software Awards 2008 had ended and Flex has won “Best of Open Source Developer Tools” (see here)! This means that Flex framework is becoming more mature and is starting to be wide spread.
More and more web applications are built using Flex and Actionscript, more complex, more user friendly and […]

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This article will explain how to integrate the Yahoo! Maps into your Flex application. Is important to know that in this we are using Flex Builder 3 and that the example and the code won’t work in Flex Builder 2 (it seems that in Flex Builder 2 there are some compiling problems with the SWC […]

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Some interesting stats where published by Adobe:

99% of internet users do have Flash Player on their machine (98,8% from Google study)
80% of internet users do have Flash Player version 9.0.115 on their machines
99% of PC internet users do have Flash Player on their machine

This is great news. Almost any computer connected to the internet does […]

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If you need to find the length of an object, and I mean the number of children of the specified object, use the following function/method:

public static function getLength(o:Object):uint
{
var len:uint = 0;
for (var item:* in o)
if (item != "mx_internal_uid")
[…]

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Friday, 25th of July 2008, we had another Romanian Flex User Group meeting. We did meet in a pub, the atmosphere was relaxed. We spoke about Flex/AIR applications, future ones and released ones, and we also spoke about Fx{r} and how can we improve it.

Andrei a.k.a webdev.andrei

Cristi & Patric - future new members

It is about […]

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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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