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What have I been doing lately? 7 months ago

I realize I haven’t been blogging a lot about what I’ve been up to in the last few months so thought I’d better get a post out and share some of those things with you. Cocoon P2P The open source Cocoon P2P library has been... Related posts: TWiT Live Desktop 2.2 goes open …
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I’m joining Google 8 months ago

I’m excited to finally be able to make the announcement… I’ve been offered a position at Google UK, working out of their London office as a Rich Media Flash Developer in Dynamic Ads, Media and Platforms Solutions. Few people knew this was on the table,... Related posts: …
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Using a SQLite database in Flex Mobile applications 8 months ago

When working with local data in mobile applications you might want to consider a SQLite database. Those are especially useful when working with large amount of data that you want to filter at runtime. Flex Mobile projects can simply take advantage of SQLite support in... Related posts: …
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Controlling the soft keyboard in Flex Mobile applications 8 months ago

There are times when writing mobile apps that you want to have more fine grained control over the software keyboard and Flex 4.5 makes this very easy. Any object based on InteractiveObject now has a needsSoftKeyboard property, setting this to true will cause the virtual... Related posts: …
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Defining a view transition for Flex Mobile applications 8 months ago

If you’ve been playing around with the Flex 4.5 mobile features, one of the great new things is the ability to easily navigate between different screens. For this you can use the navigator object and push or pop a view in your application. There are... Related posts: Adding a splash …
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Adding a splash screen to your Flex Mobile application 8 months ago

One of the common things you’ll want to do when building mobile apps is add a splash screen. This is an image that shows up while the application is launching and gives a visual indication to the user in the 1 or 2 seconds it... Related posts: Fx prefix in Gumbo revisited Adobe announces …
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Mobile application development in Flash Builder 4.5 9 months ago

Flash Builder 4.5 lets you set up mobile applications with multiple views, passing around data and view persistence in a matter of minutes. Related posts: Flex Builder gets rebranded to Flash Builder Flash Builder 4 beta – my favorite features Flash Builder 4 beta – exporting ASDoc …
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FFK11 – beyond tellerrand 9 months ago

Just two more weeks before this years FFK conference in Cologne, Germany organized by Marc Thiele and Sascha Wolter. I’ve headed over a couple of times to attend workshops but this year I’m lucky enough to present at this great event! I’m very excited to... Related posts: Mike …
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Flashback to 2010 last year

Last week of the year 2010, no better time to look back at what happened this year in the world of Flash and related technologies and my own community involvement. The year in review   February – Adobe Photoshop 20th anniversary April 8th – Apple’s... Related posts: Adobe …
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BlackBerry PlayBook – a promising development platform last year

Up until recently I wouldn’t have bet on BlackBerry becoming one of the most developer friendly and innovative platforms around, but recent announcements around their upcoming PlayBook tablet are very promising indeed. It remains to be seen how things will work out but – …
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