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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/

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* this is not overheard at a Superhero convention.

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 compiled output), as well as explain in the end that there really WAS no difference as it was all flash in the end (note the little ‘f’).

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Added more flexified goodness for the Flex to Crestron interface I’m building for Abercrombie and Fitch that I described here.  I have to say, being an old Macromedia Director guy  that migrated to Flash (grumpily as the world did) I find Adobe Flex to be …well… it’s a joy to work with; I’ve actually become very excited about coding again.

[Update]: Heh I’ve been uploading all my old work so much lately I didn’t realize that the previous post about this interface was just below…

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 but not in Flex (if anyone has examples, feel free to send them my way).

Click the above image to launch it in a new window from it’s home on Amazon S3; for the time being it’s a bit large. Once I finish debugging I’ll post an example here.

Note: Flash does seem to play much slower in the lightbox; click on the top right video tab to see the 3d action.. it really seems to chug in the iframe.

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, but the next channel up it’s join begins at 21+ from the previous channel’s (if you know Crestron you’ll know what I mean).

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* 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.

Diving into programming ScribeLive, the 2.0 version — which is being done entirely in Flex — I’ve run into the problem of not being able to pull in the Limelight video stream properly. I was banging my head against the wall — since I was capable of pulling in a live stream into Flex from our own FMS server, but any attempt to pull in a stream from Limelight would result in frustration. (more…)

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/   

Well, I gotta say Yahoo is really embracing Flash and Flex – there’s a really good API detailing the new AS3 Maps API for embedding Yahoo maps within a Flex or Flash interface — a neat little example is here.

Yahoo already has some examples, screencasts and other fun bits.

And to think, I was just visiting Yahoo to grab their latest Flash and Flex components.

** originally posted on scribemedia