Progress with Flex 3

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Somewhat irrelevant news: Please excuse my absence. I decided to take a long break, since I experienced some complications and my son was delivered a month earlier than he was due. This post was scheduled for editing and posting on March 26.
With a magic little button, I managed to connect to the FMS. Then I [...]

Flex Resources and Help

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

The best resources I found, in a variety of media:
Books
These were the top 3 books recommended over and over again by the Usenet groups I follow.

Programming Flex 3: The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex [link]

Essential ActionScript 3.0 [link]

Programming Flash Communication Server [link]

Web
Documentation
If you have a project already in mind and [...]

Flex, Flash Media Server and RIA concepts

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Flex Research
Rich Internet Applications are popping up all over the web. When I first saw them, I thought, “I want to do that too!” I started from level 0 when learning how to use Flex and Flash Media Server to build RIAs, and I had a lot of questions:

What is Flex?
What makes the Flash Media [...]

Working with Flex 3

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Predictable as ever, requests for updates to our clients’ sites are picking up as everyone gears up for the Spring Sale season. It’s comforting to see that demand hasn’t slowed, despite the media’s constant attention on lost jobs and drooping sales.
From 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., I do updates. It’s dull work, but I’m grateful [...]