Intelligent Time Duration / Estimate Slider in Flex (inspired from The Hit List)

I wrote yesterday that I am working on a time estimate slider like The Hit List. It’s finally ready! Here’s how it looks in The Hit List. And here’s how it looks in my Flex application: Want to see how it works? Here’s the live example. Want the source code? Download source MXML here. What […]

Card Deck Animation in Flex

I was trying out a GTD application the other day called The Hit List. The application is superb, and I was really impressed with their attention to detail. One thing that excited me was their card view – and especially how they animated card swaps. You see a deck of cards, and as you navigate […]

Auto Complete Text Component for Flex

Was looking for ways to skin a combobox and found another gem! An auto complete text component for Flex. Now you may say what’s new about that? But this is really nice – shows auto complete, allows multiple items to be added (like tags), can show items horizontally or vertically, can reorder them and some […]

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)

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 […]