http://www.brightworks.com/flex_ability An Adobe Flex blog by Douglas McCarroll Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:30:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From the announcement at http://bostonfug.org: "Daniel Rinehart will discuss his experiences and insights into developing for the 2.0 release of the Adobe AIR player. Daniel is known for his programming and architectural skill and his talk will be dense with worthwhile nuggets." I can personally vouch both for Daniel's expertise and for ... http://www.brightworks.com/flex_ability/?p=155 The meeting starts at 6:15 PM, Eastern Standard Time. Details at: http://www.bfaig.org/blog/?p=135 The main agenda item wil be a brainstorming session with Jack Hotchkiss from The Nature Conservancy about a project that he's contemplating. See the above URL for details. We hope to see you there! Douglas http://www.brightworks.com/flex_ability/?p=151 This is probably obvious to many of you, but I just discovered that placing the string '*.as, *.mxml' in the 'File name patterns' field of Eclipse's search dialog results in blazingly-fast code searches. http://www.brightworks.com/flex_ability/?p=147 Lately I've been trying to get some sense of when AIR 2.0 might be finding its way onto mobile devices, and when the Flex Mobile Framework (aka Slider) might be available to developers. I've talked/emailed with a couple of people from Adobe but I'm not sure who would want to ... http://www.brightworks.com/flex_ability/?p=136 Meeting: Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Time: 6:15 PM EDT Where: Online, at http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/bfaig20091020/ See our Attending BFAIG page for details on attending online. In-Person, at the Boston office of Broduer Partners, 855 Boylston Street, a short walk from the Hynes & Copley Green Line T stops. Agenda: Announcements & opening discussion The floor will be ... http://www.brightworks.com/flex_ability/?p=125 I've always wondered why it occasionally happens that a bunch of old blog posts from one blog come through Adobe's blog aggregator (MXNA). Now I know. :) This happens when you realized that your posts haven't been appearing, and ping the aggregator (see http://feeds.adobe.com/PingProxy.cfm) to let it know that you've published ... http://www.brightworks.com/flex_ability/?p=118 The Boston Flex User Group presents Libby Freligh on This Business of Flex: This talk is a departure from our usual technical focus, and we think it will be an especially exciting one. Our speaker, Libby Freligh, was a key player in the original definition, creation and launch of ... http://www.brightworks.com/flex_ability/?p=113 The Boston Flex Application Incubator Group - a subgroup of the Adobe Boston User Group - is being reactivated after being inactive for about a year. The group will be meeting monthly on the third Tuesday of each month, from 5:45 - 7:15 PM. Meetings will have a combined online/in-person format, ... http://www.brightworks.com/flex_ability/?p=107 You would think that it would be fairly simple to include the Flex framework source code in a project, rather than using the framework.swc library. Simply include the [SDK]\frameworks\projects\framework\src folder in your source path and delete framework.swc from your library path, and you're good to go, right? Well, it's not ... http://www.brightworks.com/flex_ability/?p=99 I'm trying to use the Eclipse "Ignored Resources" preference so that I can maintain my own personal settings for Flex projects that I'm working on. Specifically, when I make changes to the .actionScriptProperties, .flexProperties & .project files, I want SVN to ignore them. We use the Subversive Eclipse plugin ... http://www.brightworks.com/flex_ability/?p=95