IBM ILOG Elixir 3.0 beta
Hmm – this looks interesting: advanced data vis components for Flex – Diagram, Timeline, Gauges and Maps with spark-like renderers (mxml). IBM ILOG Elixir 3.0 beta | RIAgora.
AS3: Labels in Loops…
Christian Cantrell showed an example of how to better control nested loops by labeling each of the loops… very cool, had no idea.
Flex: Macros available in html template files
Mike Morearty, developer of the Flex Builder team listed all the macros available in Flex Builder here: http://www.morearty.com/blog/2007/01/24/macros-that-are-available-in-html-template-files/
Nice To Meet You Catalyst*
* this is not overheard at a Superhero convention.
Gumbo == Flash Builder
Adobe recently announced that Flex will now be known by Flash Builder; my feelings about this are mixed however. There were many times I had to explain the differences between Flex and Flash (and, saying ‘Flash’ in that sentence I mean the capital ‘F’ Flash CS4 authoring vs the little ‘f’ flash which is the…
Papervision 3d in Flex
Have to say it’s quite fun — sort of reminds me of the old Director3d — or at the least the stuff that Barry Swan was coding as billboards before Director added true 3d support. I’m writing a class for it for a sort of flipping card interface; I’ve seen this done before in Flash…
How I Love You Flex
I’m working on a Flex front end talking to a Crestron backend – and one of the things we’re doing is creating templates of different devices, one being a family of Crown amplifiers, each of which might have 2, 4 or 8 channels of audio to display. Each channel starts out with a Crestron join,…
Flex Rich Text Editor exporting xhtml
http://www.axelscript.com/2008/04/02/introducing-acjeditor-its-a-rte/
Lovely Lita .. er SQLite Admin*
* sung to the tune of  “Lovely Rita” by The Beatles.  Yeah, ok – doesn’t make it any funnier… David Deraedt created this nifty little Air/Flex app for administrating your SQLite databases — helpful for developing your own Air applications. How very meta.
Flex, Limelight and Edge Servers
Former Limelight employee John C Bland helps me out with getting Flex to see the live Limelight stream…
Olap data in Flex 3
Interesting video showing how multidimensional data can be compared using the new olap classes in Flex 3; the write up can be found here.  http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/videos/olap/  Â
Yahoo <3 Flex
Well, I gotta say Yahoo is really embracing Flash and Flex – thereâ??s a really good API detailing the new AS3 Maps API for embedding Yahoo maps within a Flex or Flash interface â?? a neat little example is here. Yahoo already has some examples, screencasts and other fun bits. And to think, I was…