Videos in category Flex

It dawned on me a while ago that there are just not enough skinning tutorials online about Flex and when I was starting out I knew it was pretty hard finding information online, there are some great articles out there but a lot of them seem to be for complex problems rather than starting at the beginning and building up from there. I’m planning on doing a complete series on Skinning Flex ...

Summary In this presentation recorded during QCon London 2008, Christophe Coenraets presents Flex and AIR, two technologies from Adobe used to create, deploy and run Rich Internet Applications. After a brief introduction to each technology, Coenraets showed some applications built with them. Bio Christophe Coenraets is a Senior Technical Evangelist at Adobe. He focuses on rich Internet applicat...

We'll go over what the new Maps API for Flash can do, and show how to easily integrate it with other libraries for parsing XML/GeoRSS/KML/JSON. We'll also show how to use it with the non-JS version of the Google AJAX libraries. The talk will include an introduction to ActionScript3 (like JS but better!), Flex development, and Flex controls. Speaker: who/pamelafox Google Tech Talks July, 14 2008

Google has recently introduced a Flash version of the Maps API so you can now create your own maps mashups using Flash. Write ActionScript 3.0 code around the Google Flex 2 map component to customize your map with markers, polylines, overlays and info windows. Learn how to get started in this session. Michael Jones (Google)

HTML, HTTP, JavaScript, CSS and most of the web development stack have been often cited as proof that "worse is better", but today divergent views of the web are emerging as we find out that that worse isn't *always* better, that ubiquity and openness are assailable advantages, and that the web's derivative value streams already are routing around the flaws in HTML's semantics. This t...

Summary In this interview from QCon London 2008, Christophe Coenraets discusses Flex 3, Flex Builder, BlazeDS, BlazeDS, the move towards open source at Adobe, how to integrate Flex with existing applications, and the challenges of integrating Rich Internet Applications with search engines and built-in browser functionality. Bio Christophe Coenraets is a Senior Technical Evangelist at Adobe. He ...

Summary Scott Delap provides an overview of Swing and Eclipse RCP technologies in today's world of RIA applications, as well as advances in deployment techniques such as Java Web Start and Pack200 which assist in the centralized deployment of desktop apps. Scott also compares when to use Java vs. other technologies such as Ajax, Flex, and OpenLazslo. Bio Scott Delap is InfoQ's lead Java editor ...

Summary In this interview from QCon San Francisco 2007, James Ward discusses Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), Flex and AIR, how Flex helps in the development of RIAs, the changes in ActionScript 3, the Tamarin engine, desktop and offline capabilities, Flex Builder, the Flex developer community, LiveCycle Data Services, the AMF protocol, RIA development trends, and the Flex component model. Bi...

Google Tech Talks May 2, 2007 ABSTRACT James Ward, engineer and evangelist for Adobe's Flex, Flash and Apollo technologies, will demonstrate their use for very rich user experiences in internet applications. Topics covered will include ECMAscript, the recent open source donation of the scripting engine to the Apache Tamarin project, Apollo (the standalone execution environment for running d...

Simple example of using Ruby on Rails and Flex in Flex e-Genial Scaffold. Screencast is really interesting, but it is in Brazilian Portuguese. Anyways, it worth it to take a look at it if you're interested in Flex technology. From site: The Flex e-genial Scaffold proposes to help and automatize the repetitive tasks to create Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and web 2.0 L&F (look and feel), usin...