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Link: Aviary – a set off imaging tools built on Flex

Posted by Dan - 19/02/09 at 10:02:44 am

http://aviary.com/tools

There also is a whole set of new apps coming as well.

Sending Authentication Headers in Flex

Posted by James - 10/02/09 at 10:02:28 am

Here’s a few useful posts concerning Authentication of HTTP requests.

In Flex (with HTTP Service class): http://www.geekzguru.net/howto-add-basic-authentication-header-to-httpservice/

In Flex (with URLLoader class): http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/flash_and_actionscript/
http_authentica.php

and in general, using Flash to interface with RESTful APIs: http://dynamicflash.com/2008/11/
the-trouble-with-flash-and-rest/comment-page-1/

All very interesting to me currently – sometime I’ll get down to writing a bit more about what I’m doing…

Google Analytics within Flex/Flash Applications

Posted by James - 05/02/09 at 02:02:06 pm

Well, I was going to go and write all about this myself, but Matthew McNeely has beaten me to it, it seems, with his coverage of using Google Analytics in Flash and Flex applications. Go check it out!

http://www.insideria.com/2009/02/using-google-analytics-within.html

Custom preloader class for flex.

Posted by Dan - 02/02/09 at 12:02:26 pm

A Nice simple example of how to make a preloader to replace the one that flex uses on startup. Again this is probably something that could be used for Air.

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=showdetails&productId=2&postId=12756

Data Binding an Array in Flex?

Posted by James - 02/02/09 at 10:02:35 am

Can you do it?  No you can’t.

Not directly anyway – Arrays aren’t something that data binding works with in Flex.  ArrayCollection however, is something you can work with.  To use an Array as a bindable object, you can wrap it in an ArrayCollection.  It’s similar, but not the same as an Array – you can’t push, pull, pop or shift things anymore – you have to work with other methods like addItem or removeItem.

I would’ve liked to find that all of those classic array methods still worked, but what can you do?

Building a project tracker in Flex & AIR

Posted by James - 29/01/09 at 10:01:10 am

Ok, this isn’t going to be a tutorial – not yet anyways.  So many projects, so little time to write about them.

As part of my attempts to improve the way I work, I’ve been on the look out for a private hosting solution for Subversion, that comes with project management tools like bug reporting, and – crucially – an API that I can work with in Actionscript.  My rather uninspired image above is the first draft of my bug tracking tool.

Continue reading Building a project tracker in Flex & AIR…

Updating Flex Builder

Posted by James - 27/01/09 at 09:01:31 am

http://blog.natebeck.net/2009/01/tip-of-the-day-update-your-copy-of-flex-builder/