The Flex Guy

The next BugQuash is approaching fast (on May 17th) and we’re busy making sure things run smoother this time around. Bugs In Progress There’s a lot we’re trying to improve, but one of them is the process by which developers can find a bug to work on or help with. The Adobe Bug System doesn’t [...]

The first Flex SDK BugQuash is now over and we’re pulling together stats and listing things we learned so that future events will be even better. Here’s some numbers to show roughly how successful the event was: Total patches submitted: 57 see what got submitted that day Previous to the event, there were 111 patches [...]

I recently ran into a problem that held me up for a little while, although it seemed like it would be a simple problem. After searching around and finding the solution, I found that it is actually pretty simple, just not obvious. Since it took me a while to find the answer, I thought it [...]

Here’s an application designed for those fund raiser activities where you have a specific goal in mind and you’re encouraging people to donate money.  Probably for non-profits and similar organizations. The scenario would be something like this: You have a monitor (maybe a big LCD screen) facing the audience or the passers by of a [...]

For the past couple weeks, Nate Beck and I have been working on putting together a little get-together where us and a few of our friends work on bugs in the Flex SDK.  Well, that little get-together has exploded into something much, much greater! Announcing, the first ever, worldwide Flex BugQuash! Hosted at Adobe’s Seattle [...]

Here’s an article on the Adobe Developer Connection entitled “Transitioning from Microsoft Windows Media to the Adobe Flash Platform” that describes some of the differences in the technologies, including differences between Flash and Silverlight. I thought it was pretty interesting and useful in understanding the key differences.  Since I’ve had a few posts that touch [...]

Today, I found a solution to a minor but perpetually annoying problem that I’ve run into many times and decided to share it for those of you who, like me, didn’t know there was a solution available yet. First, some background. There are a lot of examples and tutorials out there in the worldwide Flex [...]

In the previous post, I mentioned the use of Silverlight by the PIC website but didn’t list sites that will be using Flash to stream the Inauguration.  Here’s some links: NY Times CNN Fox News UStreamTV Hulu NPR CBS Viacom/MTV Facebook PBS USAToday MSNBC And yes, that last one is MSNBC.

While surfing the web, I found this blog post by Chuck Freedman that points an article talking about the announcement that the Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) will be (proudly) using Silverlight to stream the inauguration.  Here’s the press release from Microsoft.  It’s a little funny because, with a little searching, you’ll find a bunch of blog posts that [...]

At the last Seattle Flex User Group meeting, I presented a brief demonstration on skinning using Fireworks CS4 and Flex Builder 3.  Because it’s so easy to do, it went by pretty quick so I thought I’d post the steps here to give people a reference if they want to try it themselves. Before you [...]