http://www.justria.com writing about RIAs, mostly flex Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:37:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you try to localize a flex application with e.g. en_US and de_DE locales, FlexBuilder will likely complain about a missing german framework resource: unable to open ‘/Applications/Adobe Flex Builder 3 Plug-in/sdks/3.2./...’No need to give up, make the resource yourself:- Open the SDK's root folder. On a Mac, it ... http://www.justria.com/2008/11/19/missing-german-locales-in-flexbuilders-sdks-here-is-how-to-genereate-them/ Today, I worked on Activity, an AIR-based time tracking solution:As I read of Flex SDK 3.2.0 and AIR 1.5, I decided to upgrade. While the update install itself finished fine - FlexBuilder failed to run the compiled app. Actually, FlexBuild printed this error message: Error creating AIR file: 305: ERROR, ... http://www.justria.com/2008/11/19/if-flexbuilder-complains-about-error-creating-air-file-305-error-10-solution/ Recently, Microsoft kicked off the movie service 'msn Movies' in Germany. While 'msn Movies' is free of charge for customers, Microsoft refinances the offering by spliced-in advertisement. Some are quite popular movies like 'Good Will Hunting'. As I read about this offering, I expected a Silverlight proof of concept. Actually, ... http://www.justria.com/2008/11/17/microsoft-promotes-flash/ Man kann über wichtige Grundprinzipien der Arbeitswelt ganze Bücher schreiben. Man kann aber auch eine Grafik in einen Ringbuchblock zeichnen - und das Thema auf den Punkt bringen.So machte es in den letzten Tagen kaal im grosseweltblog und beschreibt den fundamentalen Zusammenhang zwischen der Anzahl von Personen eines Meetings und ... http://www.justria.com/2008/11/14/de-grundprinzipien-der-arbeitswelt/ This is a cool one! James Ward, the RIA Cowboy, explains in his blog, how to put a Flex app inside a PDF.Here is how to do it:- Create the back-end data source for the application- Create the basic Flex front-end application- Create a back-end PDF generation service- Create a ... http://www.justria.com/2008/11/13/putting-flex-apps-in-pdfs/ Wer beim Flex Camp im Hamburg war, der hat bereits einen coupon Code erhalten, mit dem er einige € Eintrittsgebühren zu MAX sparen konnte. Adobe ist in diesem Jahr besonders spendabel und bietet eine kostenlose Reise zur MAX nach Mailand im ADOBE MAX BUS an. Der Bus fährt am 30.11 ... http://www.justria.com/2008/11/12/de-mit-dem-adobe-max-bus-kostenlos-nach-mailand/ Someone - actually, I failed to find out who - managed to create a magazine related to groovy:GroovyMag. While, groovy isn't strictly related to RIA, it may be used to write code for Adobe's LiveCycle Server series of products.Here a short list of what's inside the currently PDF-only GroovyMag:GroovyMagThe Future ... http://www.justria.com/2008/11/09/first-groovymag-available/ A good place to share tips and tricks is Adobe's Flex Cookbook. Adobe produces the site in cooperation with O'Reilly. Here are some of mine:- Object-oriented game-style animation using libAnim2D [demo here] - Preview a PDF inside your AIR application- CPreferencesManager : A preferences manager for AIR- Executing several SQL ... http://www.justria.com/2008/11/08/received-a-gift-from-adobe-hq/ Update: Zwischenzeitlich liegen Photos vom Flex Camo in Hamburg bei Flickr. Have a look at this shot, where Sven Claar talks about brand new Adobe Inspire.Deutschland hat sein erstes Flex Camp und es kommt am 06.11.2008 nach Hamburg! Im Rahmen des Flex Camps werden bekannte Spezialisten der Flex Szene Ideen ... http://www.justria.com/2008/10/24/de-flex-camp-hamburg-am-06112008/ Here's a small helper class CPreferencesManager which manages application preferences by means of a key/value set, which I added as a comment to coldfusionjedi's nice blog: Sample usecase: Make window positions persist after relaunch of an application: 1. Create an instance: <tracker:CPreferencesManager    id="thePrefs" /> 2. Attach windowMove events to your Window: windowMove="thePrefs.setPreference('main.window.x',    this.nativeWindow.x.toString() );    thePrefs.setPreference('main.window.y', ... http://www.justria.com/2008/07/31/cpreferencesmanager-a-preferences-manager-for-adobe-flexair/