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How to generate ASDocs using Flash Builder’s External Tools Dialogue

A couple of things fell together for me in the last few days, and I started thinking about attending Flash Camp Atlanta. I posted on twitter that I was trying to work things out to attend. Turns out an email from David Tucker was just the motivation I needed, and I am officially [...]

When you create a new project in Flex Builder, the IDE updates a config file buried in the preferences that marks the project’s ‘bin-debug’ folder as a trusted resource. In so doing when you run the project you are able to access local resources (i.e. a local XML file), and remote services at the [...]

Not to far back I built a small application for the University that I work for. I called it the HelpDesk. I wrote the technical end of an article for Adobe about the application, how Flex was involved and other details. I didn’t realize that the article had gone live [...]

I’m heading to the Garden State this weekend to attend 360 | Flex Camp New Jersey, and the Farata Systems Flex training. I’m looking forward to the two day event. I missed out on going to San Jose this year, I figure this is the next best thing.
I’m looking forward to the sessions [...]

As mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been putting together an Adobe AIR application that allows the user to quickly create a Badge Install HTML file by filling out a simple form. The aim of Badge Builder is to give access to all of the options available for utilizing the Badge Installer, while not drowning [...]

With the Flash / Flex community buzzing about Adobe’s partnering with the PHP Zend framework, Lee Brimelow has put up two fantastic introductions to using AMFPHP within Flash at theFlashBlog.com. Both of the video screen cast are geared towards getting developers familiar with using AMFPHP, and as usual are quick, to the point, and [...]

I’ve been using the Flex Integration Kit to create my own custom components in Flash for use in Flex lately. Coming from an all ActionScript (not necessarily MXML) background there are a few things to watch for. One of them being Custom Events in your newly created component.
In order for Flex to recognize [...]

I put together a simple AIR app in Flex for a co-worker the other day. It’s a simple panel that allows the user to enter a number in any form (binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal) and it will display all of the other number types for you. At first I didn’t think it was [...]