Learn Flex in a week

Do you want to learn Flex? Adobe has put up an excellent Flex video training out for free. The course covers almost everything – from basics to PHP integration! Worth it! (thanks to Ashok for the link)

Picture Puzzle – an iPhone application turned to Mac app because of delays from Apple

We applied for an iPhone developers account at start of December. It’s been about 3 months now, and we have not yet got the Developers Account despite sending all documents and repeated followups. We have 4 iPhone products ready to deploy, but our hands are tied because we don’t yet have a developer’s account. We […]

Localizing Flex applications

If you want to localize your Flex applications, here’s an excellent approach. It allows loading translations dynamically and is easy to implement. Nice use of change events and data binding! There are other approaches (using Resource Bundle etc), but I like this approach because of its flexibility. I don’t have to compile translations in my […]

Printing Flex application from browser

Printing a Flex application from a browser is problematic. IE shows the application correctly in preview and prints it well. Firefox shows a blank area for your Flex application and does not print it. Our Reports module for activeCollab, has this problem and I’ve been thinking about solutions. Here are the alternatives: Use ACPrintManager from […]