Beyond Expectations
Adobe AIR 2 provides end users with exceptional application experiences while giving developers the easiest and most powerful way to develop desktop applications across multiple platforms (Mac, Windows, and Linux). AIR 2 builds on the success of AIR 1 by giving developers new capabilities, and even tighter integration with the desktop. Some new features of AIR 2...
read more3D vs 3D http://labs.bigspaceship.com/2009/02/12/3s-vs-3d/ Away3D 2.3 Is Out – Check out these demos http://away3d.com/away3d-23-feature-overload TubeLoc (a mashup of YouTube and LocalConnection) is an ActionScript 3 library that serves as an adapter to the YouTube ActionScript 2 Player API. http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/articles/tubeloc.html Lita – SQLite Administration Tool...
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So during my lunch couple of days ago I made an application that would let you search for any part of a person’s first name and last name and then display them and their data. My first one was built off of a DB and some PHP with an admin section, but I thought this was too much for everyone – so here is an XML based one. You can download it and if you want the source, just right click...
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TweenLite – The fastest tweening engine available – see this test. Only 3K in size and is available for AS3 and AS2. For filters see the TweenFilterLite engine. Papervision3D – A 3D engine for displaying simple elements from cubes to complex models and interactive materials. The most popular 3D engine available for Flash. Still in beta, but used a lot already in the commercial...
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So I made this awhile ago as an experiment. It seemed to me that Flex was perfect for an interactive RSS Reader. A lot of people have problems with getting remote RSS feeds (and my solution I am sure is not perfect). If anyone finds a better solution please pass it on in the comments. This piece of code is AIR, but I also have a web-based Flex version available (see demo link below). This RSS...
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So anyone who knows me knows I LOVE Flex. I also found I love AIR. If you don’t know about these two technologies then you must check them out and give them a fair chance. I know new things are scary, but some you just see are going to change how quickly we can make an application. For example I made this simple application in about 45 minutes (and I know I am slow compared to the good...
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