in a rush

If you are dealing with 508 compliance and wondering if a Flex application is accessible, this is your post.
First, yes, screen readers can read Flex applications. And yes, its fairly easy. But, I’ll discuss how in a future post.
But, if you’d rather send people to your old HTML version of your site when using a [...]

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Having built/architected/developed/consulted many Adobe Flex applications and being one of the first certified Flex instructors in the world, I’ve seen a lot of Flex applications. Some good, some bad.
But no matter how many applications or who I’m talking to, I always stress the importance of securing proprietary information. By securing, I mean don’t put it [...]

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One thing I have to say is that the Adobe community is alive with collaboration and events. There are tons of people sharing their work and their ideas on better development with the Adobe products. One more example, the local Rocky Mountain Adobe User Group is hosting a very inexpensive event for the Flash Platform, [...]

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Okay, maybe I do already love the Adobe RIA tools, but… if I didn’t, I’d be smitten with their latest offer to the community.
Once again, Adobe is reaching out to the community by giving away free licenses to their RIA development tools. Free Flex Builder licenses to academia and to the unemployed. And now, free [...]

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I’ve been working with Adobe Flex since its beta and have been a long time believer in using Action Message Format (AMF) as the communication protocol. I’ve also been working with Adobe AIR since its beta, but had only used AMF with Flex-based AIR applications. Until now…
I was working on a JavaScript-based AIR application (some [...]

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I was digging around the other day in Adobe’s Open Source area when I found the Flash Player 10 Beta with instructions on how to compile Flex applications to the new player. Check it!
There is also a tutorial by Lee Brimelow, Adobe Platform Evangelist, that covers how to get started using Flash Player 10 (code [...]

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“When you create a SharedObject, Macromedia Flash Player creates a new directory for the application and domain, and creates an empty *.sol file that stores the SharedObject data. The default location of this file is in a subdirectory of the user’’s home directory; for example: c:/Documents and Settings/username/Application Data/Macromedia/Flash Player/web_domain/lso.mxml.swf/. While usually predictable, the location [...]

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