Category: Application

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.

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, […]

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.

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