Have you and your team ever found yourselves in a crunch the day before a release is supposed to go out? “Was that bug fixed?”, “Can we finish this feature?”, “Did I overwrite your code?”, “What version of the library are you using?”. There are tools to help us get organized, but sometimes [...]

Hey all, pending approval from Devry we’re going to push February’s meeting back until Monday, February 9th. It kind of snuck up on us this month, although we have a few things planned. Brian LeGros will be giving a presentation on continuous integration (primer to follow) followed by a round table talk on what people [...]

In our December Meeting we gave out a few books from Manning for some members of the community to review. Below is the first of these, a review of Adobe Air in Action by Darryl Ho. If you’re interested in reviewing an Adobe related book for us that’s put out by one of the [...]

The meetings page has been updated with the recording links from the January meeting. The first minute or so of the BOSH presentation is a bit off, but if you skip in it’ll leave you at the 3rd slide, so you won’t miss that much. If you’re interested in BOSH, check out Jack Moffits blog [...]

When you think BOSH, you should think XMPP. BOSH, fully spelled out as Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP, is a standard that enables you to use an XMPP server over HTTP. If you’ve ever heard about XMPP, it’s probably been in the context of some server side language that was using it — Ruby, Python, Erlang, [...]

Flex provides a number of useful components for visualizing data sets, but they don’t always scale well when the collection you are visualizing is extremely long in length. In this session, Max discusses techniques for masking large data sets, which is also useful for various data visualization techniques regardless of the size of the data [...]

An excerpt from the Swiz Framework’s website:
“Swiz is a framework for Adobe Flex that aims to bring complete simplicity to RIA development. Swiz provides Inversion of Control, event handing, and simple life cycle for asynchronous remote methods. In contrast to other major frameworks for Flex, Swiz imposes no JEE patterns on your code, no repetitive [...]

Gone are the days where we could impress and excite the user with tables and pie charts. Does anyone enjoy hand-coding an image map?
With Adobe Flex and Adobe Flash, we have the best tools yet to effectively represent data visually. With a little bit of patience and willingness to try something new, we [...]

Creating an AIR application is quite simple with Flex, just check off the appropriate box when creating your Flex project and your done. AIR is however, much more than a simple desktop executable, it brings with it several API’s that allow for some native OS integration.
In this session we will discuss and use a [...]

Almost anybody who has done a little Flex programming has created a basic custom component using MXML. But what if you want to do something more extravagant – like creating a custom skin, or drawing entirely new user interface elements from scratch?
During this session, we will go through the process of creating a more advanced [...]