New training video: AIR for Flex Developers New training video: AIR for Flex Developers: Lynda.com has been a big supporter of the Adobe community; here’s their latest effort. more info

War, suicide, and funny t-shirts Mid-week photography:   Death & destruction: Photojournalist Warren Zinn reflects on the photo that made Army medic Joseph Dwyer famous, and wonders whether it contributed to the troubled vet's death last month. Kottke features the disarmingly placid image Robert Wiles captured immediately after Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the observation deck of the Empire State Building in 1947.  (Warhol later made it into a print.) The Big Picture features some spectacular wildfire imagery from recent California blazes. Tired of inkjets?  Try Printing on grass.  (Just don't ask us to soft-proof it.)  [Via Doug Nelson] Beware sketchy, sketchy photogs. more info

Flex: Setting a buttons width based on the label width I have a row of buttons, with dynamic labels, and want the buttons to size to the label so theres a uniform gap. No idea if theres a better way, but this seems to work: <mx:Button id=”myButton” label=”{myLabelVar}” width=”{myButton.measureText(myLabelVar))}”/> more info

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Proximity Menu Example and Source This is an effect that I have seen on some Flash sites so I thought I would deconstruct it. Basically you have a menu of images or icons that react to the proximity of the mouse. If the mouse is close enough to a particular menu item, that menu item will snap to the mouse [...] more info

Using Special Characters within Coldspring.XML Just because a person uses Model Glue and has learned enough about XML to know how to create basic settings doesn't necessarily mean that they have a strong command of XML, right? Well, I needed to put a funky, "special character filled" value into my global config object for use later, and through some experimentation found that using XML's 'CDATA' allowed me to do this so I thought I'd share it since I hadn't seen it more info

How OraNA.info Aggregates Blogs.Oracle.com On July 1st, blogs.oracle.com was migrated to a new platform, Six Apart’s Movable Type Enterprise on top of Oracle Content DB. The list of Oracle related blogs (authored by Oracle employees and non-employees) has moved to this page on the Oracle Wiki. Only Oracle employees are eligible to host blogs on blogs.oracle.com. Along with the migration [...] more info

Adobe® Flexâ„¢ Gumbo Language Reference Adobe® Flex™ Gumbo Language Reference more info

MegaLabs! Coming To A MAX Near You Soon! Hi, Ben Forta here dropping by the official MAX blog ...At MAX we host several types of sessions. These include:The tried and true 60 minute lecture style sessions, a chance to hear and learn from experts, interact, ask some questions, and walk away hopefully inspired and somewhat wiser.Then there are the 90 minute lab sessions, hands-on experiences that tend to cover less content than can be covered in the lectures, but offering the chance to learn by doing. Hands-on labs have limited space (there are a finite number of computers and seats available), and they always sell out quickly (we more info

Dynamically Getting JavaScript Properties Jumping off of Joey’s post about anonymous functions from externalinterface, here’s a quick and perhaps obvious method of dynamically getting JavaScript properties: package examples { import flash.external.ExternalInterface; public class JavaScript { public static function getProperty(name:String):Object { var property:Object; if (ExternalInterface.available) { [...] more info

WhosOnCFC 2.2.0 to be Released Friday Well, it has been an extremely busy blogging day for me.  Four posts in one day...  unheard of. At any rate, instead of banging out an update every day or every other day, I have spent quite a bit of time to make sure I have all my ducks in a row before I publicly release this version.  There have been quite a few changes made in this version.  Some of the changes you can expect: [More] more info

This Week's Top Posts (7/23) Here is a collection of blog posts from my coworkers on the Flex SDK, Flex Builder, and Adobe AIR teams: iamdeepa on flex (Deepa Subramaniam): Gumbo Unveiled Flex Team blog: More Information on Next Version of Flex SDK flexgeek (Harish... more info

Matthew Bass on Nomadic Programming I put this under humor only because it strikes me as funny how this concept has escaped classification. Matthew Bass has correctly classified the Nomadic Programmer. That is, a programmer who roams from one wifi hot-spot to another instead of... more info

RIA's on Cell Phones and Small Devices Thought I'd share this link to an article I came across yesterday on AJAX World Magazine where the author Guy Aharonovsky talks about the future of RIA's on cell phones and small devices.  In it he covers the strengths and growth opportunities for several technologies: Adobe Flash Lite, Microsoft Silverlight, Apple iPhone, Google Android, Sun JavaFX Mobile and Trolltech QT. more info

2 Upcoming Flash Lite Webinars Our good friend Dale Rankine (down under in Brisbane) will be presenting two Flash Lite webinars in August: Persistent Data in Adobe Flash Lite (6 Aug)Tips and Tricks for Effective Flash Lite Development (20 Aug)I'd encourage you to register for both events.  Dale's an excellent presenter and very knowledgeable with Flash Lite.  These webinars will be very informative for developers wanting to do more info