IBM ILOG Elixir 3.0 beta
Hmm – this looks interesting: advanced data vis components for Flex – Diagram, Timeline, Gauges and Maps with spark-like renderers (mxml). IBM ILOG Elixir 3.0 beta | RIAgora.
Busy Busy Busy! WordPress, jQuery..
I’ve not posted on a number of interesting tech developments of late (Adobe vs Apple) and what that means for third party iPhone / iPad compilers (appcelerator’s Titanium, Elips from openplug, Unity3d) — but I’ve been extremely busy working on a few websites utilizing WordPress and writing some custom widgets and plugins utilizing the fantastic…
Flash Catalyst intro
A few good videos by Doug Winnie showing the steps from inception, wireframing to handing off the UI to a developer.
Adobe Air Tutorials
Numerous links to Adobe Air tutorials – getting started, best practices and how to’s — can be found here.
Flex: Macros available in html template files
Mike Morearty, developer of the Flex Builder team listed all the macros available in Flex Builder here: http://www.morearty.com/blog/2007/01/24/macros-that-are-available-in-html-template-files/
Gumbo == Flash Builder
Adobe recently announced that Flex will now be known by Flash Builder; my feelings about this are mixed however. There were many times I had to explain the differences between Flex and Flash (and, saying ‘Flash’ in that sentence I mean the capital ‘F’ Flash CS4 authoring vs the little ‘f’ flash which is the…
How I Love You Flex
I’m working on a Flex front end talking to a Crestron backend – and one of the things we’re doing is creating templates of different devices, one being a family of Crown amplifiers, each of which might have 2, 4 or 8 channels of audio to display. Each channel starts out with a Crestron join,…
Flex Rich Text Editor exporting xhtml
http://www.axelscript.com/2008/04/02/introducing-acjeditor-its-a-rte/
Lovely Lita .. er SQLite Admin*
* sung to the tune of  “Lovely Rita” by The Beatles.  Yeah, ok – doesn’t make it any funnier… David Deraedt created this nifty little Air/Flex app for administrating your SQLite databases — helpful for developing your own Air applications. How very meta.
Flex, Limelight and Edge Servers
Former Limelight employee John C Bland helps me out with getting Flex to see the live Limelight stream…
Olap data in Flex 3
Interesting video showing how multidimensional data can be compared using the new olap classes in Flex 3; the write up can be found here.  http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/videos/olap/  Â