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 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 …

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 …

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. …