My man Faisal Abid, one of the authors in Flex 3 In Action will be speaking at the upcoming 2011 Scotch On The Rocks. Go say hi to him.

360Flex in DC is coming up very, very soon. It’s arguably one of the best Flex events out there. MAX is also coming up shortly thereafter which is where you’ll be hearing about all kinds of cool Adobe goodness. What’s better than each one of those? Coming to both. So I’m running a contest. If [...]

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If there were wonder twins of the Flex community it's the Wright brothers! (Let's not dwell on which on is Jayna) Whether working on Reflex (Wednesday at 2:50) or something else awesome, Jac and Tyler are always up to something cool! Q: How long have you been working with Flex? A: In Flex? since Flex 2 and ActionScript 3 first came out - 3, 4 years now? In Flash? Eight wonderful years! ;) Nice. A Flash convert :) Q: What do you like most about Flex? A: I love the ease of Binding and the MXML workflow in all it's

A former co-worker of mine just announced an awesome new Facebook game that they built with Flex, Swiz, and AS3Signals. It's called Urban Warfare, plays like Civilization, and can be found at http://apps.facebook.com/urbanwarfaregame/.

Artima.com has posted another article from my book Flex 4 Fun. Check out Effect Choreography in Flex 4 for an introduction to using composite effects in Flex 4 to create more complex animations.For anyone that's tired of seeing Flex content on my blog, you're in luck: this is probably the last bit of such material for the foreseeable future. This article is the eighth and last in a series of articles that were, er, borrowed from the book.(Then again, if you're tired of my Flex content, I have no idea what you're doing reading this blog to begin with).If, instead,

Do you create multilingual content or apps using Flash Builder? Do you use a localized version of Builder? Why or why not? Do you prefer to develop in English while deploying in multiple languages? We would like to hear your voice and understand your pain points. Please link to our short survey on Flex and [...]

Adding gesture support for your Flex apps is very easy. But it takes a little extra code to take the experience to the next level by adding a layer of physics to it. The example below is built for touch screens but will work with a mouse just as well. If you want to view [...]

The following example shows how you can set a bitmap image fill on a Spark FormHeading control in Flex Hero by creating a custom FormHeading skin and creating a repeating BitmapFill object. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2010/09/01/setting-a-bitmap-image-fill-on-a-spark-formheading-control-in-flex-hero/ --> <s:Application name="Spark_FormHeading_BitmapFill_test" xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"> <s:layout> <s:VerticalLayout horizontalAlign="center" verticalAlign="middle" /> </s:layout>   <fx:Style> @namespace s "library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark";   [...]

The following example shows how you can set the background alpha on a Spark FormHeading control in Flex Hero by setting the backgroundAlpha style. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2010/09/01/setting-the-background-alpha-on-a-spark-formheading-control-in-flex-hero/ --> <s:Application name="Spark_FormHeading_backgroundAlpha_test" xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx"> <s:layout> <s:VerticalLayout horizontalAlign="center" verticalAlign="middle" /> </s:layout> <s:controlBarContent> <s:Form> <s:FormItem label="backgroundAlpha:"> <s:HSlider id="sl" minimum="0.0" maximum="1.0" value="1.0" snapInterval="0.1" stepSize="0.1" /> </s:FormItem> </s:Form> [...]

Colleague Damon Cooper recently posted a good post on the reasons that our enterprise customers are increasingly choosing LiveCycle Data Services to deliver rapid, reliable messaging to Flex-based applications. I quote his article below: “ The question of when should you consider LiveCycle Data Services vs BlazeDS for Flex/Flash application development comes up frequently, and [...]

I created a little add-on for Flash Builder 4 which gives you a "Copy Fully Qualified Name" entry to the context menu in the MXML/AS3-Editors of Flash Builder. This is especially useful if you're creating new skin classes in Flex 4 and need to know t...

Alcatel-Lucent has acquired OpenPlug. “This acquisition extends Alcatel-Lucent’s push into Applications territory and complements its Developer Platform, Open API Service and Programmable Web offerings with ELIPS Studio – our tool that allows to develop cross-platform native mobile apps in Flex for iPhone, iPad, Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile devices (+ more in the future). The [...]

The Flex product team is looking for your feedback on building and deploying applications in languages other than/in addition to English. Please help us gather data for future releases of Flash Builder and Flex SDK by filling out a short survey. We are especially interested in receiving input from a wide variety of users across [...]

Aaron Boushley will be joining Ben Garney talking about the Push Button Engine. Gaming is (as you may or may not know) huge. Flash gaming has been around since the dinosaurs, and Flex is getting more and more prevalent in the space. There’s a few sessions for those looking to explore game creation and theory, [...]