I was recently given the opportunity to present an introduction to the Apollo file API's at Apollo Camp. The event itself was a huge success with an eager and inventive crowd devouring code well into the evening. During Kevin Lynch's...

Everybody seems to be blogging about their presentations and/or presence at 360Flex, so I thought I'd join the mix. I'm actually in San Jose right now, but headed home for the weekend in an hour or so. I'll be returning...

Let me preface this post by saying that perception is reality. That is to say that sometimes all you really need to do is instill the vision of what's possible, and the rest will take care of itself. In the...

Among the many valuable features of Adobe Flex Data Services is the ability to keep client-side applications in sync with their appropriate data-structures on the server. While this generally means relational databases and lists or tables of data on the...

It's no big secret that I'm not a particularly big fan of the accordion control. In almost every case I encounter, the use for the accordion is to provide an alternative view to stepping through complex forms. While it can...

Let me be clear right up front - I didn't come up with this idea. In fact, I've seen no fewer than three other web-cam barcode scanner implementations. This first one I saw was shortly after the release of Flash...

After encountering a security sandbox limitation in my previous example, I update the post with a scaled-down set of images that are accessed from the same domain. I'll say more on that topic later. Then I got a comment from...

One of the first tips I give to Flash developers getting into Flex for the first time is to forget what they know about Flash. I was helping a customer with a proof of concept application the other day, and...

Image processing algorithms have long been one of my favorite areas of study. It's the genesis for a number of my Central examples (i.e. EXIF data and hex editor), so you can only imagine that I'm super-excited about Apollo. Of...

Ever have the problem of getting a UI composite and wondering how you are going to implement it? I had one such example come across an internal Flex questions list the other day. I've been helped countless times by the...

This week, one of my colleagues in the Technical Sales organization asked me about a particular type of visualization. He needed to be able to display what essentially amounted to boxes and curved lines that connected those boxes with associations....

Sean Corfield recently published a ColdFusion Component (CFC) that can act as a REST endpoint. I had read a previous post by Sean that talked about this component, and asked him if I could take a look at it. With...

One of my all-time favorite features in ColdFusion is "query of queries". I have yet to see this functionality duplicated as thoroughly, or as easily, in any other language outside of SQL itself. Of course the limitation with SQL is...

Among the countless new features offered by Flex 2 is constraints-based layout. If you haven't had a chance to explore the use of constraints I encourage you to spend some time with the approach. I was a skeptic at first...

If you follow my blog you'll no doubt be under the impression that I am all about Flex. For the most part, this is true, and as a Sr. Product Specialist here at Adobe, specifically for the Flex product, I...