Since May we've got a bunch of news to cover! Let's get right to it!

Contest Sponsored By

• EffectiveUI: Breakthrough Experiences with Next-generation RIA Technologies

Notes

• Make Flex Builder Better
• ColdFusion libraries in AIR
• Flash Player 10 Beta 2
• Flex compiler for Flash 10
• FXSpy
• MAX 2008
• Marshall Plan
• FFD Magazine
• RIA Metrics
• Searchable SWFs
• Ryan's searchable SWF contest
• Buzzword/Acrobat podcast
• AIR Cookbook
• Flexjobs group
• spket
• Textmate and MXML
• Prana Framework

This is the second episode of Fifteen Minutes with Flex. This series of videos will focus on introductory or beginner content.

In this episode We give you an introduction to Flex Builder's Interactive Debugger.

We've converted the Captivate zip to an AVI. I guess we'll see how iTunes handles that.

July 15th update, we've converted that AVI to a mov file so iTunes will deliver it.

You can View it online right here.

Sponsored By

Download a free trial of Adobe Flex 3

Links

• View the Episode Online (Opens in New Window)

In this episode we were able to chat with Laura about the tag based, Mate Flex Framework. Be sure to check out our demographic survey for some new prizes. And check in with Effective UI, our contest sponsor.

Update: Laura's audio file was cut off, so we originally pulled the last 3rd of the podcast off the backup. Laura was able to restore the rest of her audio file, so we re-edited the episode. If you downloaded before 10pm (Eastern), you probably have the old copy. Re-downloading will give you an improved version.

Contest Sponsored By

• EffectiveUI: Breakthrough Experiences with Next-generation RIA Technologies

Links

• Our Demographic Survey (Win a Wii + iTunes Gift Certificates)
• ASFusion
• Mate Framework
• Implicit invocation
• Dependency Injection
• loose couplingLoose coupling
• Thomas Burleson
• fill colors project

• E-mail Jeffry and John

Hi everyone and welcome to the first episode of video on The Flex Show. We're calling the series Fifteen minutes with Flex and the videos will focus on introductory or beginner content. In the first episode, we demonstrate how you can set up a Flex Builder project.

You can View it online or download the Zip. If you download the zip, you can extract it into any directory and load the index.htm in a browser.

7/11/2008: I updated the enclosure from a zip to a mov file. We'll see how iTunes handles that!

Sponsored By

Download a free trial of Adobe Flex 3

Links

• View the Episode (Opens in New Window)
• Our Demographic Survey (Win a Wii + iTunes Gift Certificates)

Sorry about the delay folks. In this episode we chat with Chris Scott about the Swiz Framework. Be sure to check out our demographic survey for some new prizes. And check in with Effective UI, our contest sponsor.

Contest Sponsored By

• EffectiveUI: Breakthrough Experiences with Next-generation RIA Technologies

Links

• Our Demographic Survey (Win a Wii + iTunes Gift Certificates)
• Swiz Framework
• Inversion of Control Pattern
• Factory Pattern
• ColdSpring (ColdFusion Framework)
• flash.utils.describetype (LiveDocs)
• Custom Meta Data (Christophe Coenraets)
• Chris Scott Blog
• Kun Lee Blog (Chris' Friend)
• Andy Trice Blog (Chris' Friend)

• E-mail Jeffry and John

Since John and Jeff couldn't make it to Webmaniacs 2008, they interviewed a developer who was able to attend the full 5 day conference.

Contest Sponsored By

• EffectiveUI: Breakthrough Experiences with Next-generation RIA Technologies

Links

• Our Survey
• Webmaniacs 2008 Conference
• Josh's blog

Contact

• E-mail Jeffry and John

John and Jeff had a chance to catch up with Ben and Brian of the FlexMDI open source project. They talked about how the project got started, what bumps they encountered along the way.

Vital Links

• FlexLib
• Flex MDI
• Brian's Blog
• Ben's Blog
• Smashed Apples
• Web Maniacs 2008

Contact

• E-mail Jeffry and John

It's been a while since we did a news episode, so here we go.

Notes

• 360|Flex San Jose 2008
• Flex Camp Irvine CA
• European E-Learning Summit
• Webmaniacs Conference
• DPHibernate
• Adobe Open Screen Project
• Photoshop Express
• Adobe TV
• Mike Chambers on distributing the AIR runtime
• Adobe Developer Connection
• Jeff's blog post on launching apps from AIR
• Project ION
• FlexriaOpps group
• Flexjobs group
• spket
• Textmate and MXML
• Prana Framework

While John is on vacation, Jeffry sat down with RJ Owen and Brad Umbaugh from EffectiveUI. We spoke about Papervision 3D and Away 3D, two different libraries used for bringing 3D elements into Flex

Vital Links

• Papervision3D
• Away 3D
• Discovery Earth Live (Recent EUI Project)

• MIT Open Courseware Site
• MIT 3D Class (Thanks Brad for giving me the link)
• Spherical Coordinates on Wikipedia

• Papervision X-Wing Game

• 3D Max
• Sketchup
• Maya
• Collada 3D File Format

• User Experience Blog (Both RJ and Brad post to this)
• E-mail RJ
• E-mail Brad
• E-mail Jeffry and John

We went a little long this time, but couldn't find a place to cut that made sense, so you get an extra long interview with Thomas Burleson a Principal Architect at Universal mind. We chat about Cairngorm and the Universal Mind Cairngorm extensions

Vital Links

• Cairngorm on Adobe Labs
• UM Cairngorm Extensions
• Universal Mind blogs

Random Stuff that Thomas mentions

• Model Glue
• Mach II
• Struts