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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…

Garth Braithwaite currently works as an Interactive Engineer for a small airline in Las Vegas, NV and hosts InsideRIA's weekly podcast RIA Radio. Garth has a background in Education and Graphic Design.

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.

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Flex Answers

• Communicating with Flex Modules
• Tips for Optimizing Your Flex Applications
• Troubleshoot Your iPad Syncing Problems
• Use Comet with Flex for Enterprise RIAs
• Get to know the Flex AJAX Bridge
• AIR WITH FLEX
• where is index.html?
• Making a call to SQL
• Using SQL Table
• How to Find Similar Users with Python

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Letting The Data Tell It's Own Story

In this post, I have decided to focus upon one of my favorite topics, data visualization. It all started when an old friend from high school posted a link indicating that this past January and April were the hotest ever recorded, according to a NASA data set. I want to avoid the political discussions associated with this topic, and rather allow the data to tell its own story through visualization using Adobe Flex. You could stare at a grid of data for hours, and never see the trends or intricacies that become obvious once you put the data into a visual format.

7 reasons to write in ActionScript

There seemed to be some disagreement about my previous post on InsideRIA about moving your Flex Components from MXML to an ActionScript only base. The article was intended to teach readers about the Flex Component lifecycle; but backed into...

@RIARadio Episode 15: Flex 4 Cookbook

Joshua Noble and Todd Anderson, Senior Software Engineer for Infrared5, join us to discuss the Flex 4 Cookbook and other projects they are currently working on.

Transitioning from Flex 3 to Flex 4

Flash Builder 4 marks a huge step forward for the Flex framework and Flash Platform in general. But with these advances come a rather steep learning curve. Basic tasks in Flex 3, like setting the Application layout, no longer work the same in Flash Builder 4. In this article, we’ll cover some of the core changes and touch on the new designer/developer workflow.

Adobe PDF Navigator developer contest

Adobe PDF Navigator developer contest could get your Flex/Flash resume in front of leading RIA & brand agencies Win a MacBook Air, Dell Adamo, iPad, Nexus One or Netbook Adobe's Acrobat User Community has launched the Acrobat PDF Portfolio Navigator...

Flash Next - Part 3

Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. In this AFT I will go over - Flash Next - Part 3. This...

Code Behind vs. Template Components

I think a lot of times we as developers get caught up in our own world, and we forget how all of the things we do to make our code clean and easy to maintain for ourselves and other...

My Experience Speaking At FFK 2010

I have finally recovered after speaking at FFK 2010. Little did I know that my stay in Germany would be extended by several days, thanks to a Volcano in Iceland. However, much like the volcano, FFK was explosive! It was...

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