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All Blog Posts Tagged 'flex' (7)

Great ActionScript Optimization Presentation

Great AS/Flex optimization presentation, focused on "small screen" (mobile) development but very applicable to every developer. Forwarded to me by Bouiaw on the openscales mailing list: http://www.bytearray.org/wp-content/projects/ddmw-session/ (Left/Right arrow keys to navigate through). Continue

Added by Brian Russo on October 8, 2009 at 10:07pm — No Comments

2 Fast Flex Builder (Eclipse) Performance Tips

1. Compile embedded resources i.e. [Embed(source="foo.png")] and stylesheets into SWFs. More detail on that here or google about. 2. Increase the amount of Memory allocated to Eclipse. Out of the box FB 3 only allocates 128-256mb of ram (!). I have 6 gigs in my dev box at present and will happily shovel it more memory if it can make my life easier.… Continue

Added by Brian Russo on September 15, 2009 at 10:30pm — 3 Comments

Silverlight 3.0 - The First Real Threat to Flex

I just finished reviewing the API docs for Silverlight 3. I'm really impressed with the 3.0 framework. Silverlight has always had good underpinnings including an elegant and clean API, a declarative… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on June 28, 2009 at 8:00pm — 7 Comments

The Three Horse Advanced Web UI Race

During this trip I had the opportunity to chat with a customer about bringing a complex financial desktop application to the web. For this type of application the options we look at are Flex, GWT and Silverlight. All three technologies are capable of producing rich, desktop-like UIs. All are backed by software giants (Adobe, Google and Microsoft respectively.) A good team of deve… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on May 25, 2009 at 1:30pm — 5 Comments

ESRI Flex API + Mapnik

I added WMS 1.1.1 support to ESRI's Flex mapping API a few weeks ago, based on Mansour Raad's previous code for AWS. Anyway, I got Mapnik working as a WMS this weekend, with help from springmeyer + crschmidt. Current result is here It's still pretty rough but I'm pleased with the result thusfar. Currently I'm pulling in the vector layers from mapnik locally and the Landsat 7 + SRTM 90m is from JPL's WMS. Curre… Continue

Added by Brian Russo on March 1, 2009 at 10:00pm — 4 Comments

GWT: Finally A Java Web Framework That Doesn't Suck

Although Ikayzo does web development, I've personally been doing mostly desktop development for the past five years. I've worked with Swing, SWT, WinForms and WPF. Every time I was forced to work on web pr… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on July 11, 2008 at 7:30pm — 6 Comments

Sprout!

Local company ChipIn recently launched an amazing WYSIWYG flash widget builder called Sprout. Sprout allows you to combine shapes, images, videos, RSS feeds, maps, and more with a dead simple drag and drop interface. After creating your Sprout (widget) you can publish your creation on dozens of web platforms including MySpace, Facebook and all the popular blogging sites. You can track usage of your widgets using an exce… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on February 3, 2008 at 5:00pm — 2 Comments