Last week AppFoundation released a demo application built in Flex. You can read more about it here:
AppFoundation Company Blog: GIS
The application was built on top of Modest Maps. Modest Maps displays tile-based maps from sources like Microsoft, Yahoo!, OpenStreetMap and others. Here is an image of the app.

Launch the application
If …

I wanted to get the word out that my new company, AppFoundation Technology Group, Inc. has launched its new web site in Adobe Flex.
The site uses Flex to communicate with PHP through HTTPServices to access dynamic content that drives ‘pages’ being created in the rich internet application. The graphics were …

I will be the speaker for the July 8th meeting at the Java Metroplex user’s Group covering Flex and Spring integration.
Please check out www.javamug.org for more information regarding the event. I hope to see you there if you are in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
I also plan to give a first …

AIR can render PDFs using the HTMLControl as long as the host computer
has Acrobat 8 or later installed.
I have seen many examples of doing this, just without the ability to scale the PDF larger and smaller when a resize of the AIR application occurs. So I worked that issue out …

Over the past 5+ years I have done quite a bit of work with Flex and Spring. I am happy to announce the release of my first book; Pro Flex on Spring. You can find the book on www.amazon.com or pick it up at your local Barnes and Nobles.
 
Pro Flex on …

One of the biggest issues I have come across when deploying a Flex application has been the difficulty in gaining initial focus on the Flash player and the components within it.
I finally came up with a simple approach that is working for me with IE 6 and IE 5. I …

I usually have many Flex projects deployed on my Tomcat server at any given time. Usually 5-10 will be running. When I execute 3 of these larger Flex applications I use to get memory errors. I have found a couple Java Options that have helped with the server not running …

I recently ran into an issue due to the amount of Flex and Java projects in Eclipse. I usually have one or two projects open in Eclipse.
I was getting very poor performance after opening several files in the project space. Eventually I ran out of memory for Eclipse to operate in. …

Over the past years I have been implementing Flex projects in many different settings. They range from business intelligence applications running against large data warehouses to simple tools that perform a very custom business function. From the beginning, using Flex 1.5 to now with Flex 2.0, I have experienced quite a few …