Tomorrow, I’m going to Adobe Live 2007, the Dutch edition. It’s held in the RAI in Amsterdam and I’m looking forward to going, together with my fellow trainees from <theFactor.e>, Ruben Swieringa and Niels Bruin. Some interesting things to see I think. Especially the Flex 3 sneak preview by Waldo Smeets. But also ActionScript 3.0 [...]
<– I have updated the Reflection Manager. The new version can be found overhere –> Last week I needed a reflection at the bottom of the application I was working on. After searching the internet for a while I found some reflection classes on my favorite Flex resource, Flexbox. But after testing 2 of these [...]
Today, in an official press-release, Adobe announced strategic plans to make Flex open source under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Check out the official press release and the info on Adobe Labs. David Wadhwani and Ely Greenfield explain Adobe’s decision a little more in this video. Great news!
The last few weeks my Flex Builder is becoming slower and slower. Therefore I started looking for the reasons why this happens and searched for some performance tuning tips for Flex Builder 2 and Eclipse. I found some really useful tips which increased performance quite nice. – Close the projects your not currently working on. [...]
<– they have stopped this service for the time being because of the overwhelming number of orders. Let’s hope that production will resume soon! –> Maybe you have seen the gigantic API posters Adobe created for Flex and ActionScript 3.0. Well you can order them for free now! The only catch there is: you either [...]
I updated my SuperPanel extension to version 1.5. It now includes focusing of panels, the focused panel has a different color, double clicking on the header to collapse/open the panel, and maximizing the panel to the full screen size. If a panel is being dragged it is 50% transparent now for better visibility. There’s also [...]
