The full video of my session at MAX this year — “What’s new in Flex 4″ — is now available on adobe tv. Watch it here. I’ve also posted the slides for you browse in bed with a warm cup of hot chocolate.

The source I used for some of the demos in the “What’s new in Flex 4″ talk at the Adobe Max conference in L.A. are now available for download here. If you have a moment, add a comment below with any feedback about the examples, the talk, the project, or just to say [...]

You would think, after working on Flex for more then five years, that I know most of the sordid details regarding my Flex teammates’ lives. Well…no. In this morning’s status meeting, I was privy to some new information. Deepa Subramaniam, developer extraordinaire for Flex, is a big dork. Because the first thing she thought [...]

[demo]: http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/components/a-couple-of-samples-from-max-no-not-that-one/ The demo I posted yesterday on using custom metadata has been fixed. Thanks to those who pointed out the bug. [See it here][demo]

[samples]: http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/components/a-couple-of-samples-from-max-no-not-that-one/ Last week at MAX Barcelona, I did a couple of off-the-cuff presentations and samples for the Flex Boot Camp session on Wednesday afternoon. I promised a few people I would post those samples on my blog. If you saw my presentation at Max, this is not the demo from the presentation, But you [...]

[book]: http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/source/ApolloBook.air Rob Adams is the User Research Specialist on the Flex team. I like Rob. I like Rob a lot. I really wouldn’t want to see Rob in pain. So for Rob’s sake, bofore I go any further, I feel the need to point out that there are lots, and lots, and [...]

[pg]: http://polygeek.com/299_adobeflash/flashnews_better-than-a-lego-vagina-award-for-360flex [orig]: http://www.iparigrafika.hu/pageflip/ [fb]: http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/components/flexbook/ There’s been an interesting little discussion going on in [the comments of this blog post on PolyGeek][pg] about the [FlexBook component][fb] — mostly pointing out the relationship between this component and the previous flash-authoring based versions, and questioning what value Flex is adding to the effect. To Tink and the others who pointed [...]

[source]: http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/source/Book.zip [license]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_license [flexbook]: http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/2007/03/06/new-flex-component-flexbook-repost/ Despite the clear statement in my [previous Flex Book post][flexbook] that the source wouldn’t be available immediately, I’ve been buried under a pile of helpful readers informing me that my ‘download source’ link was broken. I suppose I shouldn’t complain about eager interest, no? I really wanted to have some time to [...]

[demo]: http://www.stretchmedia.ca/blog/index.cfm/2007/3/9/Flex-Chart-Range-Selector–Google-Financeish [doug]: http://dougmccune.com/blog/ Check out Brendan’s [chart range selection sample][demo] that emulate’s google finance’s nice chart navigator. I love this example because * it’s done mostly in MXML, with very little actionscript required * it uses a component from the ever growing collection of excellent 3rd party community flex components * it’s just so damn cool. Great work, [...]

[FlexBook]: http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/components/flexbook/ 360Flex is happily underway, and shaping up to be a great event. In honor of all the people feelin’ the Flex love down in San Jose this week, I thought I’d put out a new sample this week. The source will follow, along with a little more explanation, when I’ve had a chance [...]

I guess I get sloppy at 12:30 AM. If you tried to check out the FlexBook example but got hit with a password request, my apologies. The password has been removed, so you should be able to see it now.

360Flex is happily underway, and shaping up to be a great event. In honor of all the people feelin’ the Flex love down in San Jose this week, I thought I’d put out a new sample this week. The source will follow, along with a little more explanation, when I’ve had a chance to clean [...]

The past month has been reader feedback month at quietlyscheming. I didn’t intend it to be that way, but I’ve been receiving a steadily growing stream of emails from people who have been using, abusing, and improving the samples I’ve been posting here. Which is great news. Flex development has been exploding of late, [...]

Since I posted the Flex DisplayShelf component, I’ve had a number of people ask me how I got the 3D tilting effect in the decidedly-non-3D Flash player. So today I posted an interactive sample that shows how the tilting effect is achieved. Check it out here: Updated DisplayShelf page with interactive walkthrough

Since I posted the DisplayShelf component, I’ve had a number of people ask me how I got the 3D tilting effect in the decidedly-non-3D Flash player. So today I posted an interactive sample that shows how the tilting effect is achieved. Check it out here: Updated DisplayShelf page with interactive walkthrough

I know there’s a bunch of people who read this blog looking for flex components and sample code, and tend to ignore the longer more considered monlogues I post (I’m not bitter). So in case you’re one of those people, you might have missed the new component I posted last Friday called SuperImage. Read [...]