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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …