Archive for the 'Flash' Category

Let the Flexing Begin

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

In my last post about Flex, I mentioned that there was a non-commercial license available. Well, I took the time to apply, and after several weeks (after I had given up hope, really) I got an email that I had been granted a license. The email contained a one-time link to the adobe […]

Flexing

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

One thing I love about blogs are sites like Technorati that make it easy for others to find blog entries. For example, John Dowdell found my post on Flex. He found my post using Technorati, and I found his the same way. I’m betting we used different search terms to find them, […]

Macromedia Flex

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005

Macromedia has a Flash tool designed to work with web services and other Java technologies, called Flex. As it turns out, it’s been out a while, but I just became aware of it with the public alpha of Flex 2. Here are a few (probably old) reviews:
Infoworld
Java Boutique
The Open Sourcery
And if I’m reading […]

Free Flash Tool

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

I discovered what looks like a great free tool for developing Flash components and web sites, called OpenLaszlo. Based on my very cursory investigation, applications can be developed using just a text editor, but they create very nice Flash output. An eclipse plugin is also available from IBM.
The OpenLaszlo SDK uses a […]