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ActionScript 3 RIA Reference Guide

By: Simon Whatley, Adobe Certified Instructor, Highlander

The ActionScript reference for rich Internet application development provides an alphabetical reference for all native ActionScript APIs for the Adobe technology platform runtimes: Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR—as well as the Adobe Flex framework APIs. Use this guide both as an API reference and a tool to learn about ...


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Little Girl Sings a Strange Jam

By: Jesse Warden, Flex & Flash Gladiator, MultiCast

Twitter’s down, imagine that.  So, posting this uber-rad, dope, and whack song here instead. Just needs a baseline, and it’s club worthy.


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UK Adobe User Groups on LinkedIn

By: Simon Whatley, Adobe Certified Instructor, Highlander

Whether you love it or you hate it, LinkedIn for Groups now has the UK Adobe User Groups for ColdFusion, Flex and Flash.

The ColdFusion, Flex and Flash User Groups represent a central information resource for all UK Adobe developers. With the increasing importance of Rich Internet Applications, Rapid Application Development, ...


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Fuel Shortage in Georgia?

By: Jesse Warden, Flex & Flash Gladiator, MultiCast

In central Atlanta, driving home from a friends house, my wife calls.
“My friend came over, but there was no gas on the way here.  She doesn’t have enough to make it home.”
“No worries, I’ll stop by a place on the way home, buy a tank, and fill it up.  At worse, I’ll just siphon [...]


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Forcing Landscape Printing in Flex 2 & 3

By: Jesse Warden, Flex & Flash Gladiator, MultiCast

I’ve been working on a Flex app where I needed to force landscape printing to ensure it would print out well.  Relying on the user to choose landscape won’t work.  Steven Sacks had the original solution in AS2/AS1. Darron Schall had some additional advice for Flex 1.5 built upon from Lin Lin’s advice.  I’m using [...]


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Great Adobe AIR Applications to Check Out

By: Simon Whatley, Adobe Certified Instructor, Highlander

Since the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) was released at the end of February, we now have a stable platform on which to build desktop applications with our existing web skills. A number of people have already started and the Adobe AIR Marketplace is filling with AIR applications by the day.

So what is the big deal?


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No Mediator vs. No Singleton in Cairngorm & PureMVC

By: Jesse Warden, Flex & Flash Gladiator, MultiCast

I had an errand to run yesterday and my peer at ESRIA, Brian Riley, had some interesting news, so it was a perfect time to call. After we discussed his good news, I then veered the conversation to lack of a formalized Mediator in Cairngorm to get his thoughts. Also known as “Abstract [...]


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Scheduling Gig Challenges

By: Jesse Warden, Flex & Flash Gladiator, MultiCast

It seems a common challenge for smaller service industry software shops & agencies is scheduling. If you are spending too much of your resources attempting to get new work, you may be neglecting your current customers’. If you spend no resources on getting new work, you’ll have some down time with no money [...]


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Rich Accessible Typography - FIR and sIFR

By: Simon Whatley, Adobe Certified Instructor, Highlander

Many people who have worked on websites know that standard HTML and CSS allows the webpage author to assign any font of their choosing to a text element on a page. However, they also know that there is no guarantee that the element will show the desired font, as the browsing user may not have the same font, or set of fonts, installed on their local system. More often than not, only a set of “common” fonts are installed, for example Arial on the PC and Helvetica on the Mac.


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The Future of the Rich Internet

By: Simon Whatley, Adobe Certified Instructor, Highlander

The Internet has emerged from obscurity to become a dominant platform for application development and is integral to the idea of Software as a Service (SaaS). Unfortunately the demand to build applications of increasing complexity has continued to outpace the ability of traditional Web applications to represent that complexity and expectation.


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