Archives: 2007August

The need to support off-line capabilities has driven some RIA providers back to the fat client platform. For example, Adobe AIR, Google Gears, and Slingshot are all examples of this trend. The fat client offers a lot of advantages over RIA technologies such as AJAX, but there are also some serious drawbacks. Is history repeating […]

Adobe’s LifeCycle Data Services ES offers developers powerful capabilities. Some of this software’s capabilities, specifically server push, can be developed with relative ease using a utility class that has been around in the Flash APIs for a great while, and without having to pay licensing fees for LifeCycle Data Services ES. The utility […]

AJAX has forever altered user expectations regarding the experience delivered by the Web. In today’s world, users sit at the edge of their seat waiting to see what scrumptious eye candy AJAX will serve them next. Some of the more notable visual effects and desktop-like interactions include Prototype-esque fades, Dojo style fisheyes, the near ubiquitous […]

A Real-World AJAX Project Presenting richly formatted or legacy documents in as part of a rich internet application can be challenging, particularly when there is a large volume of information to present. Using a real-world project as an example, this session will discuss how Flex was used to build a rich media eLibrary designed to […]

Reporting is one of the most important but complex to implementation aspects of enterprise AJAX applications. This session covers several major reporting challenges and will offer a solution to those challenges. It’s not a trivial task to create an AJAX application that would allow end users to customize their reports on the fly by applying […]

‘This is great news as it means yet another excellent Flex resource,’ blogged Rich Tretola on his ‘Everything Flex’ blog in response to the announcement by SYS-CON Media last week of the launch of Flex Developer’s Journal as an online technical publication for developers that are using or considering Adobe Flex.
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There are three ways of creating PDF documents from Adobe Flex applications: by using the forms/LiveCycle designer,by treating PDF printing as one of the features of your Flex application, and by using Snapshots available in LCDS, which uses bitmaps to represent Flash content. This article shows how to treat PDF printing as a feature […]

So how do you write Flex Builder Tracer Bullets knowing that Flex can be a RAD tool and Tracer Bullets are good to do? Flex Builder can render MXML components pretty accurately, whereas ActionScript components are not so accurate. This means you can see, in the Design View, your application as it’s coming together. This […]

We’ve created an editorial advisory board for Flex Developer’s Journal that includes well known members of Flex community. Our goal was to bring together people who work with Adobe Flex in the trenches and are specializing in Flex best practices, enterprise development, mobile devices, Flash, and Flex communication protocols. Being a Flex coder was one […]

On August 16, 2007 SYS-CON Media has launched Flex Developers Journal, an online technical publication for developers that are using or considering Adobe Flex as a technology for creating rich front ends for Web applications. While in the past SYS-CON was publishing Flex-related articles here and there, now we’ve got the critical mass of interest […]