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Won first prize in Adobe RIAthon 2008

2009-01-23T10:43:00.001+05:30

I'm glad to let you know that our company XLabz Technologies won the First prize and the Audience Choice Award in Adobe RIAthon '08 held in Bangalore. The Flex and AIR based tool - FlexStats won both the awards. Thanks Adobe

You can read more about this from our company's blog : http://blog.xlabz.com.

RED5 Flashcom Server supports AMF3

2007-10-03T11:57:00.000+05:30

Open Source Flashcom server - RED5, recent version starts supporting AMF0 and AMF3 protocols. This is an amazing feature with RED5 server, when people are looking for free Open Source based AMF3 Remoting.

RemoteObject object can be used to connect AMF3 gateway while building application with Flex 2, 3 and on AIR based applications. NetConnection object can be used to connect AMF3 from Flash CS3 by setting the ObjectEncoding property to AMF3. Changing the ObjectEncoding property to AMF3, you can test Oscartrelles AS3 Flash Remoting Example with Flash CS3.

RED5 and Granite Data Services are the Java based Open Source remoting servers support AMF3.

Setting status bar message in AIR Application

2007-08-04T01:45:00.000+05:30

Here is a small tip to set status bar messages in AIR Application.

Application.application.statusBar.status = "Hello World..";

Granite Data Services, an alternative to FDS..

2007-05-02T10:10:00.000+05:30

via www.graniteds.org

Granite Data Services aims to be a free, open source (LGPL'd), alternative to Adobe® Flex™ 2 Data Services for J2EE application servers. Note that alternative does not mean replacement: it rather means that Granite DS supports AMF3 serialization/deserialization via RemoteObject.

GDS implements service factories required for:
EJB3 (Session and Entity Beans),
Spring,
Simple Java classes (aka POJO) interactions.

GDS is designed to be lightweight, robust, fast and highly configurable. While GDS is still in early development stage, you should be already able to use the current 0.2 version in non critical production environment.

Artemis - Bridge Apollo to Java runtime

2007-04-17T19:09:00.000+05:30

What is Artemis?
Artemis is a community focused project aimed at bringing external libraries to the Flex / Flash environment. The goal of Artemis is to provide features in the Flex / Flash desktop application domain that are not currently available. The Artemis framework allows a developer to create their own custom libraries (currently written in java with plans to support other languages) that integrate with a Flex / Flash Apollo application. Developers will be encouraged to share Artemis libraries they’ve built and discuss new features through this web site.

Interesting project, Keep an eye on its releases!!!

Prana: IoC Container for AS3

2007-04-10T10:54:00.000+05:30

Christophe Herreman had come up with an IoC Container approach to set actual implementation of the remote services and the service locator in an external xml which helps to change the remoting gateway details without compilation hassles.

Prana Framework 0.1

Yahoo! Mail Web Service

2007-03-29T09:44:00.000+05:30

Yahoo open up the application programming interfaces (APIs) for Yahoo Mail to encourage Web develpers to build application using its mail service. Guys!! test drive it with Apollo using Yahoo Mail WebService APIs.

Adobe Apollo alpha is Out!!

2007-03-19T10:46:00.000+05:30

Check out the Adobe labs site for the alpha version of Apollo.

Apollo SDK
Apollo Runtime
Documentations and Samples
Apollo Extensions for Flex Builder 2.0.1

"doLater" in AS2 is "callLater" in AS3 !!

2007-02-15T00:00:00.000+05:30

When I was working on a wrapper for FlashPaper documents inside Flex, it needs a method to be called after a component is being finished loading. Got to know from livedocs, "callLater" method should be used in AS3 as how we use "doLater" with V2 UIComponent. callLater(method:Function, args:Array):void

100 AS3 useful tips at Kirupa.com

2007-02-13T04:20:00.000+05:30

100 useful "ActionScript 3 Tip of the Day" list at kirpu.com is a valuable resource for every Flex Developer. Check that out...

Back to blogging

2007-02-10T00:47:00.000+05:30

I will post links and tips finding useful about Flash/ Flex/ AS3. Check back after a while.

FLUORINE :: open source .NET Flash Remoting Gateway

2006-01-23T10:16:00.000+05:30

FLUORINE is an open source .NET Flash Remoting Gateway. It allows you to call ASP.NET pages, web services and .NET assemblies from Flash. Also available is class mappings which allow you to map an ActionScript class to a .NET class.

Flash Lite 2 - Authoring Update on Labs

2006-01-03T10:11:00.000+05:30

Adobe had officially hosted the Flash Lite 2 Update for Flash Professional 8 preview release in labs. This updater will add Flash Lite 2-specific authoring features to your Flash Professional 8. Check out...

FFmpeg supports 3GPP format

2005-12-16T11:16:00.000+05:30

Dennis baldwin had findout the option of converting .mov files to 3GPP format with FFmpeg, which does fastest encoding than anyother encoding tool like QuickTime Pro. Checkout the article to know more..

FMS Dynamic buffering strategy

2005-12-05T09:44:00.000+05:30

Fabio Sonnati had posted an article on dynamic buffering, how to set it dymanic through script. His test graphs with default buffer settings and dynamic buffer settings shows much differences. Just take a look on his article.

Admin Consoles and App Inspectors for FMS2 and FCS1.5

2005-11-25T11:20:00.000+05:30

Stoem had hosted Consoles and Application Inspectors for Flash Media Server and FCS 1.5. You can manage your FCS Servers from anywhere. Great Stuff!!!

Enterprise Architect 6.0 with ActionScript 2.0 support

2005-11-18T09:49:00.000+05:30

The resent version of Enterprise Architect has the support for Round-trip Engineering of Actionscript 2.0. EA easily imports the class files and build them into class diagrams. Much more features are packed inside the new version.

haXe Programming Language

2005-11-15T09:54:00.000+05:30

Nicolas Cannasse, creator of MTASC, the open source Flash compiler, has just released a public preview of his haXe programming language & compiler. It has a full working parser with type checking, as well as a complete language reference. Basicly, what haXe can do is :

create Flash SWF files using Flash APIs for Players 6,7,8 and soon 8.5.
generate Javascript code using Browser DHTML API, so you can create AJAX web applications.
generate Neko sourcecode that can be used on the Server side or in standalone executable.

FlashPlayer 8.5 Alpha performance test

2005-10-27T13:10:00.000+05:30

Some geeks made performance test gauging with older versions like FlashPlayer 7 and 8. FlashPlayer 8.5 Alpha is performing 10 times better. View the report on oddhammer.com

Next Generation Flash Platform Alpha Out

2005-10-17T13:10:00.000+05:30

Flex Builder 2, the Flex Framework 2, Flex samples, command line tools, and Flash Player 8.5 for Windows are out. Get it and tryout those. It's all hot :)

XMI2Actionscript - Tool to generate Actionscript pseudo code from your UML Design

2005-10-10T18:13:00.000+05:30

When you were using Flash for an application development project, UML Design is the first step out of it. Like any other programming languages, now we can create Actionscript pseudo code from UML. XMI2Actionscript easily creates the Actionscript pseudo code when you design UML with Enterprise Architect or with ArgoUML. Export your UML Design to a *.XMI file and using .XMI file, you can create the AS2 Classes with all the relationship and package structures. Features : 1. Source: XMI version 1.0 or 1.2, Output HTML page with all the classes. 2. Support for inheritence (extends) 3. Support for complex Namespaces 4. Automatic creation of folders in accordance to classes’ namespaces. 5. AS2DOC compatible standard documentation copying from XMI, Including documentation for methods params. 6. Automatic creation of static variables required by CreateClassObject 7. Automatic creation of constructor 8. Recognition for static methods 9. UI interface available in .Net 1.1 and for web as ASP. XSL which is used for conversion is an external file, thus you can extend it easily. 10. A special dialog to select the classes you wish to export from the file or altogether.

Actionscript 3

2005-10-10T14:47:00.000+05:30

Still more astounding news from Macromedia after releasing it's newer version on Flash Platform. ActionScript 3.0 features a compilation mode for stronger compile-time type checking that provides the benefits of languages such as Java or C#. Look more into

Installing Flash Lite player

2005-08-30T11:41:00.000+05:30

A Technote on Installing the Flash Lite player and content onto a handset. A useful link I come across while searching. The Flash Lite is getting to be more popular on next release of Flash. This technote will help to know how to install Flash Lite player.

Screenweaver 3 - OpenSource

2005-08-26T10:01:00.000+05:30

After a long back Screenweaver is released with the OpenSource - Screenweaver 3. This is the best tool to create Desktop Applications using Flash. The new version combines Flash MX 2004 / 8 developers and Win32 programmers.

FLASH EARTH

2005-08-23T08:30:00.000+05:30

See anywhere in the world using satellite images from Google Maps or MSN Virtual Earth. An amazing site made with flash as you can find your near town in it. Flash Earth Map done by Neave.com.

Flash 8 - Scale9 Scaling movieClip

2005-08-18T08:54:00.000+05:30

New feature for scaling a MovieClip called Scale9 in Flash8. The feature is a property that enables customized scaling of any MovieClip asset. Read .Theodore's article to know more

Design Patterns and Flash

2005-08-06T13:34:00.000+05:30

Some Design Patterns approaches in Actionscript hosted at design-nation.net. The articles are narrated with interesting examples as intermediate developers can understand. Some richer approaches to flash and it will help in developing efficient applications.

Video Tutorials for Flash

2005-07-30T11:59:00.000+05:30

Flashextensions had released few Video Tutorials for Flash which all very useful for Flash Begineer and intermediate. Try with the sample tutorials provided.

Invaluable AS2 math classes

2005-07-29T09:15:00.000+05:30

I was worked in a project which all have mathematical geometric complex calculation to be completed in a short timeframe. Many times I visited Richard Wright’s math AS 2.0 Library but never used before. So I tried using those classes and are really powerful.

FDT - Development Tool for Flash

2005-07-26T09:05:00.000+05:30

PowerFlasher is developing an Eclipse Plugin for Flash for the next generation of Application Development. The product is under BETA Testing and releasing soon.

Hello all

2005-07-25T10:37:00.000+05:30

Some contribution I would like to share with you as soon I came to know something about Flash Platform