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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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Silverlight Development for the Flex Developer

The jets and sharks, Hatfields and McCoys, Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants, Adobe and Microsoft. Now several years in the making, the Adobe - Microsoft rivalry is gearing up. Especially with the anticipated new release of Silverlight 3 and...

MIX09ers Head Home with Silverlight and Expression Betas in Hand and Design in Mind

As they headed home from Las Vegas last Friday, the roughly 2000 designers and developers -- not to mention Microsoft employees -- returning from the three-day MIX09 web conference in Las Vegas had plenty to consider. For O'Reilly author and Silverlight MVP John Papa, the big news was the support for "out of browser" and line of business applications announced for Silverlight 3. For Vertigo developer Jon Galloway, the SketchFlow designer planned for Expression Blend 3 and demoed for the first time at MIX, promises to revolutionize the way designers prototype their user interactions. As for Scott Guthrie, VP of the Microsoft's Developer Division, reflecting on his keynote at an after hours reception, he was just pleased that MIX09 had come together without the "fire drill" of years past.

Flex Database Applications

How does one develop Flex database applications without having to configure or deploy complex server environments? Is there a way to do this without having to set up different data services for every application but still have secure communication? Budgets...

ActionScript and MXML Pretty Printer

I previously blogged about the importance of coding standards, and offered my opinions on what beautiful code looks like. Regardless of whether you accept my code formatting conventions for yourself or not, there is an excellent Eclipse plug-in that can...

Using Tweener for Scripted Animations

Whenever adding effects to Flex applications, I usually user the built-in Flex effects. They work with most flex components, are consistent, and are reliable. However, in cases where you want your application to be very expressive, they don't always act like you want them to. In those cases, I use Tweener, an animation "tween" library for ActionScript. In this post, we'll walk through a basic example using Tweener.

Flex floating panel manager

FlexMDI is an excellent floating panel implementation.If you have tried other floating panel implementations then you know they leave much to be desired. DragPanel is awkward to work with, and does not provide much functionality. SuperPanel is very slow and...

Flex 101: Accessing A Web Service

For this post, I decided to change things up a bit. Rather than go explore complex application patterns or data visualization, we're going back to basics. We will be covering how to make a basic application that makes a call to a web service and retrieves data.

Introducing Enhanced Flex Components from Clear Toolkit Framework

The goal of this article is to give you a brief overview of some of the objects from clear.swc, which is a part of the open source Clear Toolkit framework available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/cleartoolkit. Component library clear.swc includes a number of...

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