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Rich Tretola is a senior software developer at Herff Jones, Inc. specializing in Rich Internet Applications. He is an Award Winning Flex Developer and self proclaimed Flex evangelist.

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Flex 4 & Flash Builder 4 are Here! 2 years ago

Adobe has made it official. Adobe Flex 4 SDK is final and now available at the open source site. Adobe Flash Builder 4 is also now available. I highly suggest you get involved with Flex 4 as soon as possible as it will make your life much easier. Updates like the new state management, component …
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How is the 360|Flex conference going? 2 years ago

If you are at the 360|Flex conference this week, please let me know how it was by answering this simple poll. Click here to vote! Tweet This! Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on …
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F3 v. F4: Using ViewStack, TabNavigator and Accordion 2 years ago

You have probably used mx:ViewStack, mx:TabNavigator and mx:Accordion somewhere in your Flex development efforts over the last 5+ years and had code that looks like this: 1234567891011121314151617181920212223<mx:TabNavigator width="400" height="200" …
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iPhone Flash: What did @kevinlynch just say? 2 years ago

What did he just say? Back in October when I first discussed the new CS5 compile to iPhone workflow from Adobe, in my post titled “Apple’s greed to only help Adobe with Mobile Flash Player” I mentioned the following with the important part in bold: “Adobe had to create a way to …
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Adobe AIR on Mobile – here’s the most important sentence! 2 years ago

Unless you have been offline all day today, you have heard that Adobe has made an official announcement on the time lines of Flash Player 10.1 mobile as Adobe AIR mobile. Here is the official press release. Since the announcement, a bit more information has come out and I have narrowed all of the …
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F3 v. F4: Repeater v DataGroup 2 years ago

Ah, good old repeaters. Well if you have used repeaters in the past you are more likely to say, good riddance Mr. repeater. Repeaters were not only pretty heavy components, but also just a general pain in the butt. So, what does Flex 4 have to help us? DataGroups! The following examples both use …
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Flash 10.1 coming to Pre, Driod, Nexus One, iPhone … 2 years ago

Check out these great videos showing Flash Player 10.1! Games on Palm Pre Motorola Droid Nexus One iPhone Tweet This! Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on …
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Flash Player 10.1 Coming to webOS in February 2 years ago

Big news in the battke to see who will have the mobile Flash Player 10.1 first. After yesterdays videos showing Flash Player 10.1 running on Android 2.1 we now have news that webOS 1.4 is coming in February, and Flash 10.1 will be built-in. Also, the Flash beta will be available soon from the [...]
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F3 v. F4: Boxes v Groups 2 years ago

Layouts are something that has changed a lot with Flex 4. There are several ways to accomplish your layout. Here is a simple Flex 3 example where we wanted to horizontally layout two vertical groupings of Label and TextInput components. 12345678910<mx:HBox horizontalCenter="0" …
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Flash Player 10.1 on Google’s Nexus One Phone 2 years ago

Can’t wait to see this in action in person. Tweet This! Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Share this on Facebook
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