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Flex 4 for Flex 3 developers
Today, I presented my Flex 4 for Flex 3 developers presentation at FlashCamp Chicago. For those that wanted the slide deck, you can find it here. In this, I discuss a number of differences between flex...
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Ouch, it hurts when i do that
As promised, here are the slides for “Ouch! It hurts when i do that.” presentation first delivered at 360Flex San Jose, March 10th, 2010.
View ArticleLots of new prereleases from adobe
Late last night adobe released several new betas on the labs.adobe.com site, including: • 64 bit Flash Player (Code Named “Square”) • Flex 4.5 SDK (Code Named “Hero”) • Flash Builder Next (Code Named...
View ArticleBuilding a Native Extension | Part 1 – The Problem and the Plan
I’ve been writing a lot of native extensions lately. The project I’m working on now requires all kinds of custom behavior. It’s been an interesting ride. I’ve learned a lot, for sure, particularly...
View ArticleBuilding a Native Extension | Part 2 – The ActionScript Code
In this post we’ll discuss the parts of the native extension that are written in ActionScript. This includes in the main library and the default implementation. The ActionScript Library The main...
View ArticleBuilding a Native Extension | Part 3 – The iOS Code
The iOS project is the part that, in my opinion, is the hardest. There are plenty of mistakes that are very easy to accidentally make. Hopefully this post will help everyone else avoid the same...
View ArticleBuilding a Native Extension | Part 4 – The Android Code
Building the Android library was very interesting. It was easier for me to write Java as it was more similar to ActionScript. Some amount of debugging (log statements) is actually possible with zero...
View ArticleBuilding a Native Extension | Part 5 – Putting It All Together
This is the last step of the native extension build process. Did you miss something or are you late to the party? Jump back to step 1. Now that all of the supporting projects have been built and...
View ArticleWhere is the iOS SDK?!
In my previous posts about writing native extensions for iOS, I pointed out that it’s important to tell Flash Builder where the iOS SDK is located. When I installed Xcode on a Snow Leopard machine the...
View ArticlePlaying HLS Video in Flash
**Updated with fixed links. Sorry about that! GitHub I’ve recently started work on a side project. It’s going to be a front end client for a media management server (Plex), which means it’s going to...
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