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ActionScript, Flash, Flex in the world, Flex news, Flex resources, Magazines
Starting with September 2009 FFDMag Will Be a Free Online Magazine
Andrei Ionescu | 28.07.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

This is a good thing for us, developers. We will have the possibility to access this good resource free and easy. To quote their press release:
Since September 2009 FFD Magazine becomes online magazine. What is important – it will be also FREE of ANY charges. The only thing you need to do is to sign [...]
AIR, Flex in the world, Flex news, Made in Flex
Adobe Wave Is Launched
Andrei Ionescu | 24.07.09 | Permalink | Comment?

A few day ago Adobe launched Wave – a desktop notification system for your favorite websites. To understand it better think about it like an aggregator that keeps together all your favorite social networks and websites.
The application is built using Adobe AIR and connects to different services and alerts you when changes are made or [...]
Flex 4 SDK, How to, Skin, Spark
How to skin a button with icon in Flex 4 SDK – spark
Stelian Crisan | 12.06.09 | Permalink | Comment?

It’s recommended to use same SDK version components in same file, so I skin a button in Flex SDK 4 using only Spark components.
In Halo we use to add an icon to a button using icon property:

<mx:Button width="120"
icon="@Embed(source=’ico/add-blue.gif’)"
[...]
Flex 2, Flex resources
Tour de Flex
Stelian Crisan | 27.05.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

As a was write the post about Tour de LiveCycle I just realize that we don’t have a post about Tour de Flex. So …
I use Tour de Flex from last year and I got what I need some times. It’s a tool for large use but it’s all you need in order to [...]
Flash, Flash Player, Flex 2, Flex Builder 3, Flex IDE, Flex in the world, Flex news
Flex Builder Rebranded into Flash Builder
Andrei Ionescu | 21.05.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Many of you may already know about the rebranding of Flex Builder. It will no longer be named Flex Builder but Flash Builder. Adobe took this action in order to make the Flash name (and platform) a stronger one. Flex will not disappear but it will remain as framework. Neither Flash IDE. I know many [...]
Flex in the world, Flex news, Flexer, Fun, RoFUG
Adobe Developer Day Bucharest – We Were There
Andrei Ionescu | 20.05.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Yesterday (19th of May) we’ve been attending the Adobe Developer Day in Bucharest. It took place at Intercontinental Hotel in various places because beside the general session there were other bootcamps taking place in the same time. Attendance was ok at least in the morning although more people could attend to the event. Interesting is [...]
AIR, ActionScript, Components, Flex in the world, Flex resources, Magazines
Contributing to FFDMag
Andrei Ionescu | 27.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I’ve been working on an article for Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine. The article’s name is How to use Yahoo! Maps in Flex and show how you can use Yahoo! Maps on your RIA. The article is based on two articles from our blog which had been combined and developed further.
The articles are:

How To Add [...]
Jobs
Job Opportunity: Flex Developer in Bucharest, Romania
Stelian Crisan | 02.03.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Position Name – Flex Developer
For a project in Europe we are looking for Flex developers to build a team at Bucharest. This project contains a Flex frontend with a .Net backend.
Position Summary
Mida4u is looking for an experienced and highly-motivated software engineer with a passion for creating great web applications. This person will work in a [...]
Flex in the world, Made in Flex, RIA
Sumo Paint Version 1.0 is Out
Andrei Ionescu | 22.01.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Yesterday (21st Jan 2009) Sumo Paint version 1.0 was released. In my opinion this is the best online Photoshop. And it is FREE!
Just some of its features:

Layers with blending mode
Layer effects
Shape tools
Brushes
Clone stamp
Filters
Symetry tool
Gravity

More about features: http://sumopaint.com/web/#/features/
A new video with Sumo Paint in action can be viewed bellow:

You can access the application here: http://www.sumopaint.com/app
Sumo Paint [...]
Jobs
Job Opportunity: Flex Developer – Dreamweaver Team
Stelian Crisan | 14.01.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

The Dreamweaver team in Romania is looking for an experienced, highly-motivated software engineer with exceptional architectural and development skills as well as a passion for creating great web applications. This person will work closely with a team of similarly outstanding individuals in Romania, dedicated to building next versions of InContext Editing and building other Dreamweaver-related [...]
Errors, Flex Builder 3, Flex IDE, Flex resources, How to
VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal override of…
Andrei Ionescu | 14.01.09 | Permalink | 10 Comments

I think some of you may encountered this “wonderful” runtime error, mostly when you work in a team, building different applications that will load in another one.
Shortly the application is telling us that parts are build using different versions of Flex SDK. In my case the main application was build using Flex SDK version 3.1.0 [...]
ActionScript, Bugs, Flex 2, Flex Builder 3, Web Service
Number.toString bug
Virgil Cristea | 20.11.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

Last week I had to write a small piece of code to send to a webservice a number from a text input. All was fine for the normal test values (0,1,100). The problem appeared when I tried to send the number -9223372036854775808. Instead of receiving this number I got -9223372036854776000. So I started to do [...]
Flex in the world, Flex news, Flexer
Flex Camp Triangle – How Was It?
Andrei Ionescu | 10.11.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

As you know on 6th of November we had Flex Camp Triangle (see also myadobe.ro). A few days has passed and after some “cold thinking” I’m writing some thoughts on about the conference.
It has been a great Flex Camp and the focus was on the newly launched Flash Player 10 and what can be done [...]
Flex in the world, Flex news, Flexer
We Salute You From Flex Camp Triangle
Virgil Cristea | 06.11.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

The Flex Camp Triangle is about to begin and the FX{r} team is present. The topics on the agenda are:

Registering
Opening
Keynote Matt Chotin
Keynote follow up
Mihai Corlan – Why/Where AIR – Air app use cases
Cristian Pascu – FlairBuilder
Break
Dragos Dascalita – Boost your UI with AIR
Mihai Pricope – Bending Pixels and more
Victor Dramba – Cabanova
The end

More photos bellow.
More [...]
Made in Flex, RIA
SumoPaint – Best Online Photoshop
Andrei Ionescu | 09.10.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

In a previous article I presented Pixlr Image Editor. Now I found SumoPaint and is much better than Pixlr. Is faster, has more tools and the interface is much nicer.
Please enjoy it because is FREE. You can create an account if you want to save your work on the Sumo server but SumoPaint can [...]

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