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Simeon Says Hi! My name is Simeon Bateman and I am a web application developer specializing in the Adobe Flash Platform. I am an Adobe Community Expert and an Adobe Certified Trainer for Flex and AIR. I am also the Principle Instigator for PNW Rain LLC an RIA consulting and mentoring company.

26 August 2009 ~ 1 Comment

John Nack on Adobe: Adobe Snow Leopard FAQ

With the eminent release of Snow Leopard (order today and get it on friday) people are starting to be concerned about what will and wont be supported. Adobe is being very forth coming about what you have to worry about with their software. John Nack has a good summary of what the CS [...]

24 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Packaging Flex 4 Components

In the third episode of the Simeon Says Screencast I am joined by Garth Braithwaite. Garth and I did some discussion a while back about how to best get skins applied to Flex 4 components that we want to share with folks. The result of that was some actionscript that set a default [...]

20 August 2009 ~ 5 Comments

Time to upgrade your Flex 3 SDK – 3.4 is released

In the category of a little good news with a little bad, we found out yesterday that the Flex 3.4 SDK has been released. This is great because we like progress, but it also comes with the news that it fixes a critical vulnerability for cross-site scripting that is present in 3.3. So [...]

20 August 2009 ~ 3 Comments

Growing Pumpkins

I will be the first to admit, that by living in the digital age I have not put much time or emphasis on analog things. Most of my days are spent in front of a computer, or playing with a gadgets with batteries. So when my daughter got some pumpkin seeds and a [...]

19 August 2009 ~ 1 Comment

I was on The Flex Show ( again! )

I was sure that after my past performances as an interviewee and as a substitute host, they would never have me back. But it appears Jeff and John are just gluttons for punishment. :)
I had the opportunity to record the Flex Show with Mike Labriola a couple weeks ago. We got to talk [...]

17 August 2009 ~ 4 Comments

Episode 2 – Creating the Flex 4 TitleWindow

In the second episode of the “Simeon Says” screencast I am joined by my friend Matt Legrand. In this session we talk about how to create a new custom TitleWindow component in Flex 4 by extending Panel and PanelSkin.

Download ( 82.93 MB 30:42)

The code I used to prepare this session is hosted [...]

14 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Open Iteration Meeting next Tuesday – The Official Flex Team Blog

Make sure to tune in for the next open iteration meeting for the Flex 4 SDK.
Open Iteration Meeting next Tuesday – The Official Flex Team Blog.

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13 August 2009 ~ 2 Comments

Trying to find an identity

Its funny how events in your life change your perception of yourself. For the last year I have been primarily focused on trying to sort out what kind of business I wanted to run now that I am on my own. Something I am still working on daily. But in the mean [...]

12 August 2009 ~ 2 Comments

Using Flash Builder Beta with Nightly Flex 4 SDKs

In this episode of Simeon Says, I walk through setting up Flash Builder Beta to utilize the nightly Flex 4 SDK builds from http://opensource.adobe.com
Due to a bug in the released version of Flash Builder Beta this task is not as straight forward as it should be. Please reference the following links for more information [...]

10 August 2009 ~ 1 Comment

I was on the Summer of Flash Podcast

Just a quick note to mention I had the opportunity to visit with the crew from the Inside RIA Summer of Flash podcast.
We had a great visit about Flex 4 and namespaces, we talked about open source at Adobe and my opinions on it. We also talked a little bit about Hudson, Continuous Integration [...]

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