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Marco Casario has dedicated himself to innovative projects for the web using Flash and Director (as far back as versions 3 and 5). In 2005, Marco founded Comtaste, a company dedicated to exploring new frontiers in Rich Internet Applications and the convergence between the web and the world of mobile devices--MobyMobile and…

David Tucker is a software engineer with Universal Mind where he focuses on Flex and AIR application. In addition, he is an avid blogger and writes primarily about Adobe AIR, Flash, Flex, and ColdFusion at davidtucker.net.

Fred Gerantabee is an instructor with Aquent Graphics Institute. He is an Adobe Certified Instructor for Flash, Dreamweaver, and the mobile development platform, Flash Lite.

Joshua Noble is a consultant, freelance developer and Rich Internet Application designer, based out of Brooklyn, who most recently worked at the popular RIA design/dev firm Schematic, Inc.

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BugQuash - help fix Flex

The first official Flex BugQuash will occur Saturday , March 28th, from 10am-8pm EST. What's a BugQuash you ask? A mighty gathering of coding heroes from great to small coming together to fix as many bugs to the Flex SDK as possible in one day. The event is sponsored by Adobe but driven by the open-source Flex SDK community.

Pet Store with JavaFX 1.0. Part 1.

I work for a company called Farata Systems. Laura is our office manager, and she doesn’t know Java. Everyone else does. We work in the enterprise RIA space using Adobe Flex as a main development tool for creating all these...

Flex Quick Tip: Detecting Local vs. Remote Instance

Have you ever had the need to manage multiple data sources in your application? Perhaps in development you want pull from one data source, and when you are running on a hosted server, pull from another data source. Well, here is an extremely basic, yet useful tip for doing exactly that.

CIA World Factbook in ILOG Elixir, version 2.0

Just under a year ago the ILOG elixir team released a demo of their Flex charting components using data from the CIA world factbook. A new version of the demo was posted last Friday and looks really good. The new version expands upon the original by using PureMVC for the code, a better theme (by Juan Sanchez), and an updated UI. It also implements a few new views and adds drill down to the tree-map. It's a great example of what Flex was made for: powerful data visualizations that would be immensely difficult in traditional web languages.

LovelyCharts is open to all!

LovelyCharts, the excellent Flex-based charting framework I blogged about in July of last year, is out of private beta and available to all. Head on over to the site to try it for yourself.

Google Analytics within Flex/Flash Applications

If you have used Google Analytics to monitor and analyze traffic on a website, you were most likely impressed with the ability it gave you to understand the nature of visits to and exits from the site, learn how visitors found it, discover how much time people spent there, et cetera. Recently, the Google Analytics team announced the availability of an open source, native AS3 API that enables you to utilize Google Analytics (GA) tracking from within your RIA.

Enterprise Development with Flex

This is my first blog at InsideRIA and I’m glad to be here. I’ll start with a quick introduction of the new Flex book that I’m working on with my two colleagues - Victor and Anatole. This advanced O’Reilly book is titled “Enterprise development with Flex”. The rough cuts version of the first chapter of the book is already available

Flex XML Quick Tip

Here's a quick tip when working with XML in Flex. E4X is great in most scenarios, it allows you to easily traverse and filter XML-based data structures, and in most cases it is your friend. However, one area where E4X struggles is if you have an XML structure where a node name contains a dash "-" character. Here's how you can get around that issue.

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