I have came across wanting to change the font on a selectedItem in List based controls many times in the past. What this simple itemRenderer will do is set the selectedItem’s font to Bold when selected and Normal when not.
Demo: ListSelectedItemBoldExample
Files: ListSelectedItemBoldExample.mxml ListSelectedItemRenderer.mxml

I just had a Special Report article published in the March issue of Flash&Flex Developer’s Magazine. If you are not receiving this free magazine, I suggest you sign-up to get the magazine. Here is what is in the issue:
PlugrMan: The Universal API Toolkit – By Almer/Blank
Developing an Enterprise Flex Application Strategy …

AppFoundation’s Adobe Flex consulting
 
To find out more about AppFoundation and our Adobe Flex consulting go here.
If your business has invested in Adobe Flex or Adobe AIR, a powerful software development kit for web, mobile, and desktop, chances are you’ve also invested in the training and you have IT professionals that …

I wanted to take some time to show one of AppFoundation’s internal applications we use to manage a variety of information such as clients, projects, and communication between the two. AppFoundation’s social business solution, Af Connect, applies the full potential of Web 2.0 models like communities, collaboration and user generated …

I wanted to release the core diagram for FxConnect. We have successfully used our framework on many large scale Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR application. The diagram below represents the core objects in FxConnect and their interrelations: 

FxConnect Framework

The FxConnect programming model is made up of:
• Application Framework: The Application Framework …

RecentlyAppFoundation worked with McManus Software to deliver a business intelligence system that provides historical, current, and predictive views of business operations, using real-time data from a large company’s accounting system and staffing application.
AppFoundation built this application using our Enterprise Flex Development Framework FxConnect. FxConnect cuts down on as much as …

I am happy to announce that AppFoundation has created its own Flex and AIR based development framework directed at Enterprise development. It has been used for enterprise development for large scale applications, products, and web based Flex development.
To find out more please visit:
http://www.adobe.flex.appfoundation.com/
This framework addresses Enterprise issues such as:
- …

I will be the guest speaker on October 14th. You can find out more here. I hope to see you at the event. Here is the information regarding the location and topic.
October 14th, 2009 – 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Christopher A. Parr Library, Program Conference Room
6200 Windhaven Parkway, Plano, TX …

Over the past several projects I have had the opportunity to develop large scale Flex applications using Agile software development. SCRUM is the major component for this development, it allows my teams of Java and Flex developers to pair together during Sprints.
Each Sprint is 2-3 weeks in length. We plan …

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 …