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think-a-doo.ning - attracting unique freelance talent - and doodlers

http://think-a-doo.ning.com/ invites you to join the freelance community of designers, animators, photographers, writers, marketers, web designers, developers, architects, brand strategists, projects and brand campaigns. If you have a project or you have the talent to be part of the creative solution for on-line or mobile brand communication campaigns think-a-doo.ning welcomes you!

DOODLE HERE with US !!!

Sign up today! http://think-a-doo.ning.com/

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My Twitter - eCard or App - who knows?

Please download my eCard - it's an AIR application for my Twitter Feed.

If you don't have it also get Adobe Air here: http://get.adobe.com/air/

eCard

Click here download or on the image to download my eCard from our server. Big thanks to Dario who is a master teacher.

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Spring by example

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InfoQ - Panel Discussion on Flex in the Enterprize

http://www.infoq.com/articles/enterprise-flex

To assess the state of Adobe Flex for enterprise adoption, InfoQ has conducted a virtual panel with the creators of some of the most popular third-party flex frameworks.

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Vodacom4me menu not visible... Guess where it is and win...

I am pissed off every time I have to interact with this interface.

Finally after 2 years I am posting about it.

INTERFACE

Spot the "DataBundles" link just showing the top of a few characters.

There are two rows of links for "My Account"... I see one. The links all work but you have to guess what they do.

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Mac Pro ??? - by Lawrence Latif

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1727136/apple-releases-core-mac...
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"Apple's Mac Pro range is an embarrassment even for Apple, a company that prides itself on its high markups. While the Imac offers a good mix of style, value and functionality, the Mac Pro is little more than consumer grade hardware with a sprinkling of workstation-like parts, packaged up to attract the technologically vain user willing to pay far over the odds for the logo on the box.

We'd love to hear the most expensive configuration of a Mac Pro you can be bothered to create on the Apple Store. We'd also be curious to know what, short of a lobotomy, would be required for you to want to actually splash out the cash for such a machine. µ"

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A Text Layout Framework alternative...

http://guyinthechair.com/?p=515

Quote: Paul Taylor, Aug. 18, 2010.

Today I’m very proud to announce the official public beta release of tinytlf [tiny tee-el-eff], a new ActionScript 3.0 text layout framework I’ve been working on. I’m pushing it out as beta v.0.5, with 1.0 due out near the end of September.
Adobe’s TLF and tinytlf

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Adobe proves that Flash can work on mobile devices

http://www.examiner.com/gadgets-in-los-angeles/adobe-proves-that-flash-c...

Daryl says: "First, let me apologize to Adobe for all the harsh articles on how Flash is outdated, how it doesn't work on mobile devices and how HTML5 is taking over. After using Adobe Flash with my HTC EVO and Android's Froyo operating system, I am now a believer."

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birdeye - Information Visualization and Visual Analytics Library

http://code.google.com/p/birdeye/

BirdEye is a community project to advance the design and development of a comprehensive open source information visualization and visual analytics library for Adobe Flex. The actionscript-based library enables users to create multi-dimensional data visualization interfaces for the analysis and presentation of information. The project is based on development and the integration/adoption of related open source libraries (see credits and attributions). For status of development, refer to the wiki pages.

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AS3 Layout Manager BaseUI v4 finally released and looking GOOD

http://www.soundstep.com/blog/2010/07/05/as3-layout-manager-baseui-v4-fi...

If you don't know what is BaseUI, it is a lightweight layout manager written in pure AS3 that helps to handle the position and size of your elements in a AS3 project layout.

More specifically, it calculates positions and sizes when you resize your browser and updates your elements. BaseUI makes it possible to use layout properties (such as top, bottom, horizontalCenter, and so on) on any DisplayObject instance, much like you would do in a Flex environment.

Many Thanks Romu!

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AS3 AIR2 Catalog Update - 65Kb in AIR

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Getting Started with Phidgets and ActionScript 3 - Mike Chambers

http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2010/07/26/getting-started-with-phidget...

Phidgets are a set of devices and sensors that provide a simple way for developers to create applications that both send and receiving information from external sensors, motors and pretty much anything else you can hook up via electronics. They are similar to the open source Arduino electronic platform.

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Flex Addon for Spring Roo

http://blog.springsource.com/2010/07/14/introducing-the-flex-addon-for-s...

The Flex Addon for Spring Roo as a part of the Spring BlazeDS Integration 1.5.0.M1 distribution. This addon aims to bring the productivity and usability benefits of Spring Roo to the development of Spring-based RIAs with Flex. The below 15 minute screencast (split into two parts) serves as a quick introduction to the addon and its capabilities. Watch as we go from installation of the addon to a fully functional Flex application backed by Spring in just a handful of commands.

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Strobe Media Playback

http://www.opensourcemediaframework.com/strobe_mediaplayback.html

Release 1.0 of Strobe Media Playback. Strobe Media Playback is an Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) based media player that you can quickly and easily integrate into your website.

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Spring Flex Home

Spring BlazeDS Integration is a top-level Spring project, and a component of the complete Spring Web stack. This project's purpose is to make it easier to build Spring-powered Rich Internet Applications using Adobe Flex as the front-end client. It aims to achieve this purpose by providing first-class support for using the open source Adobe BlazeDS project and its powerful remoting and messaging facilities in combination with the familiar Spring programming model.

http://www.springsource.org/spring-flex

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/spring_blazeds_testdrive.html

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Video Chat for Android in 30 Lines of Code - Christophe Coenraets

http://coenraets.org/blog/2010/07/video-chat-for-android-in-30-lines-of-...

Here is a simple Video Chat application I built with Flex 4 and deployed on AIR for Android. The Application is just 30 lines of code and allows multiple users to join a chat room and “video chat”.

http://coenraets.org/blog/2010/07/video-chat-for-android-in-30-lines-of-...

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Ten tips for building better Adobe AIR applications - Christian Cantrell

http://www.flashmagazine.com/tutorials/detail/ten_tips_for_building_bett...

Now that we have just launched AIR 2, I figured it would be a good time to look back at all the AIR code I've written over the last few months and pick out some of the best snippets and concepts to share with the community. This article describes ten techniques I've used to improve performance, usability, and security of AIR applications, and to make the development process faster and easier.

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Developing Google Wave Gadgets with Adobe Flex

http://insideria.com/2010/07/developing-google-wave-gadgets.html

Google Wave is a collaboration platform that was announced by Google last year. It is a web based platform where participants can come together and collaborate both for work and fun. The developers of Wave have kept the platform open for extension where developers can write automated robots and gadgets (similar to widgets) that can participate in a wave and add value to the collaboration. In this article we will cover how you can start developing gadgets for Google Wave using Flex as your primary development environment.

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FlexORM

http://flexorm.riaforge.org/

FlexORM is an Object Relational Mapping framework for Adobe AIR. It enables JavaScript/ActionScript3 objects to become persistent objects using the embedded SQLite database; that is, you do not need to write database code or SQL.

The FlexORM framework can be used by either Flex or JavaScript code in AIR applications.

A key feature of FlexORM is its transparency. You do not need to modify your domain objects or inherit from a base class.

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Visual editor for ORM frameworks

http://www.orm-designer.com/home

ORM Designer is a visual database designing tool with full support of ORM frameworks. ORM Designer was created to replace kilobytes of text definitions with easy-to-use graphical interface. Thanks to a very flexible design almost any ORM framework with definitions stored in a markup language can be fully supported. Enjoy creating database models fast, comfortable and error free.

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AIR 2.0 Released

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Web Platform

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SWIZ beans TIP

Don't do this at the beginning of the project:

swiz:SwizConfig strict="true"
mediateBubbledEvents="true"
viewPackages="view"
eventPackages="event"
beanLoaders="{[Beans]}"

You may forget it's there and add duplicates in the BEANS file.

Duplicates cause the view bindings to FAIL!

Keep the setup clean until the project is done and if you need the slight speed advantage delete the views and event references in the BEANS file and declare them in the main file configuration.

So start with this instead:

swiz:SwizConfig beanLoaders="{ [Beans] }" mediateBubbledEvents="True" strict="true"

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SWIZ and Aerial-CMS playing nicely together

Thank you to Brian Kotek (SWIZ) and Danny Kopping (Aerial-CMS) for helping me see how the two worlds meet up. If you are battling to figure it out, I'll be glad to pass on the learning from the past week.

I have completed the basic setup of a SWIZ and Aerial-CMS project. The project has 4 entities (server-side): Administrator, Client, Category and Product. It's basically a product catalog quick start.

I have only wired up MVC for the Product entity so far and the whole project is here http://lab.think-a-doo.net/AerialSwizTemplate.zip and http://lab.think-a-doo.net/AerialSwizTemplate.air . As soon as the application is complete I will post it here. The current project file is about 2.5Mb compressed.

You have to use AIR2RC1 or change the AIR CONFIG .xml file name space (currently set to 2.0) to 1.5 or whatever you are using. Oh and don't forget to install the AIR2RC1 run-time, especially if you want to see your published AIR apps installed and working.

See -- http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/AIR_2:Release_Notes#How_to_overlay_...
for the SDK build process.

SWIZAERIAL

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Very basic Audio CMS - AIR2RC1 and Aerial-CMS

BASICAUDIOCMS

http://lab.think-a-doo.net/AudioCatalog.air
It will only allow max 15 sec 64Kb/s MP3 files for this demo.

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AIR and Moodle

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