Simeon Says

A month or so ago the Flex team posted specs on the Adobe Open Source site talking about some of the features that they plan to add in Flex 4.5 specifically for mobile. Specifically these new classes include the MobileApplication, View & ViewNavigator, and the ActionBar. Then last week Adobe posted an updated build of [...]

The FlexUnit team just put the finishing touches on the first release candidate and posted the files for download. Unless we get some very scary bugs, these files will be very close to what the final version of 4.1 will include. I think the only known change we have planned is building against the new [...]

I am so excited to see that the Flex team had gotten through enough of the hush hush code jam on Flex 4.5 that they are ready to start talking to the community about Flex development again! I have complained lately that I missed these opportunities to talk with the team and help to guide [...]

A little while back we started seeing spec documents appearing on the Adobe open source site talking about new features intended to be delivered in Flex 4.5. Most of these items were concerning the new mobile initiatives for AIR on Android. As these features rely on builds of AIR that were not yet released the [...]

Still haven’t bought your ticket to 360Flex in DC? Shame on you! But as usual your procrastination has paid off. Dan Florio (polygeek) has started a contest on his site to give a way a free ticket to 360Flex in DC. By buying your ticket through Dan’s affiliate link you become eligible to win back [...]

So I had a client this week that wanted to build a Kiosk application for an upcoming trade show. Of course I told them no problem knowing about the fancy new FULLSCREEN_INTERACTIVE mode of Adobe Air. Well maybe not new but new since the original release :) So I put in the time and got [...]

I am working on building out a new idea and decided to use the Heroku platform to deploy. Heroku is an amazing platform that is built as a front for EC2 that simplifies deploying Rails applications. Beyond being a great platform that takes away all the hassles of deploying rails applications, all your deployment is [...]

With all the news going around about the next version of Android (2.2) supporting AIR and Flash Player 10.1, I was super excited and so I ordered a new Nexus One from Google. Since I am an existing AT&T customer and I do mobile development for the iPhone I decided to get the AT&T version [...]

Adobe made the official announcement this morning that Flex 4 is code complete and Flash Builder 4 is up for sale. Flex 4 has been extensively overhauled to streamline developer-designer work-flow. In addition to work-flow an amazing amount of time has been put into making it easier to customize the look and feel of your [...]

I think this morning I finally figured it out the real intentions of Apple’s denial of Flash on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Apple is secretly in cahoots with Adobe to get Flash on every possible device in the world. You think I am wrong? Perhaps you need to look around Mobile World Congress. Or [...]