http://dylandepass.com/blog A Blog about Flex, Air and Related Technologies Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:01:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is my first post in a couple of months, I've really been slacking on my blog.. Primarly becuase I spent most of July and August finishing up my last work term @ Adobe, they kept me busy creating a portal system that will be used internally to help manage releases ... http://dylandepass.com/blog/?p=52 The Adobe Flex team invites you to join us at Flex Camp Ottawa, a free one night gathering with food, drinks, and coding covering everything you need to know about Flex 3 and Adobe AIR.    Agenda If you're at the beginner level, we suggest arriving at 4:30 because there will be a ... http://dylandepass.com/blog/?p=51 With this release, the AIR runtime has gone global: - The runtime has been translated into ten additional languages: Japanese, French, German, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese. - The AIR APIs and file formats have been updated to enable AIR-based applications to be localized - International keyboard ... http://dylandepass.com/blog/?p=50 This link was passed around my office today.. I got a good laugh out of it so I thought I would post it. Beckground: In June of last year, HEMA a Dutch department store, was sold to British investment company Lion Capital. They revised their home page, and obviously have a ... http://dylandepass.com/blog/?p=49 FunFX is an test framework for functional testing of Flex applications. It's open-source and leverages Ruby for writing testcases. I haven't given it a try yet but I thought I would blog about it as it looks like a great resource for creating Automated testcases. The framework is the result of a master ... http://dylandepass.com/blog/?p=48 Just found this blog post today from Colin Moock on the new XML based file format (XFL) that will be available with Flash CS4. This is great news and since its XML based and not binary like FLA, I thinking this could make life easier for companies with big projects ... http://dylandepass.com/blog/?p=47 Justin Everett-Church recently released some new details about the new RTMFP protocol that can be used with Flash Player 10. RTMFP stands for Real Time Media Flow Protocol and is going to be used to leverage the new peer to peer capabilities of Flash Player 10. The communication between peers is going to ... http://dylandepass.com/blog/?p=46 At the Flex camp in Toronto Last month Mike Potter gave a presentation on How to Promote Your Flex and AIR applications. In the presentation he examines and provides advice on how to promote to Communities, Blogs, at Events and Offical Adobe Programs. This is a great resource if you've got ... http://dylandepass.com/blog/?p=44 Today I was trying to create a DataGridColumn Item renderer that would set the background color based on the data in the column. Usually this is a simple thing to do, you would just created and ItemRenderer that extends Label and then set the background color to whatever you want. The ... http://dylandepass.com/blog/?p=43 Lee Brimelow has released a video tutorial that shows you how to create content for the Flash Player 10 beta which was released last week. As of right now there is no tools available to author Flash 10 content but you can download the latest command-line MXMLC compiler to get ... http://dylandepass.com/blog/?p=42