Flex
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Man I really do like coding in simple environments - it's like walking barefoot on the beach. So, I figured, why not get acquainted with Flex not through sluggish autocompletions and feigned build magic, but rather by relying only on solid tooling, a simple text editor, and documentation. The mxml is legible and colorful, while the actionscript demands a more focused eye and takes longer to digest. This is the default syntax highlighting of mxml in Gedit - as XML.
Flex in Gedit
In a blog post, Microsoft has announced that the "Metro" side of Windows 8 (the touch-based interface that looks like Winodws Phone 7) will not support Adobe Flash or other plug-ins. That doesn't mean users won't be able to view websites that use Flash, however. If they switch over to the traditional desktop interface, they'll be able to use Internet Explorer 10 there to interact with those sites. "The experience that plug-ins provide today is not a good match with Metro style browsing and the modern HTML5 web," explains Microsoft's Dean Hachamovitch. "Running Metro style IE plug-in free improves battery life as well as security, reliability and privacy for consumers."
Windows 8 Metro Won't Support Flash or Other Plug-Ins
It takes more to be a good Flex programmer than simply knowing how to use some built-in Flex containers and controls . It takes significantly more. Here's my take on the subject...along with some resources or some keywords that you can easily Google. Please comment on this blog if you feel like I've overlooked anything (which is inevitable) or if you know of some valuable resources that I should add.
10 Things A Good Flex Developer Should Know | Web Builder Zone
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Adobe Flash Player for Linux Tips & Tricks ========================================== This site contains usage tips and workarounds important to Adobe Flash Player Linux users. Updated: 8/12/2011 * 64bit Flash Player 11 Beta [ Release Notes ] Prerelease of 64bit native plugin for Linux. Install this libflashplayer.so into /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins and remove your existing 32bit plugin.
Adobe Flash Player for Linux Info
A much clamored-for feature (right after native 64-bit, wmode/transparency, and V4L2) is Flash GPU (graphical processing unit) acceleration, sometimes founded in a belief that it’s a magic solution for making things fast without any side effects or ill consequences. I just wanted to make it known that the Adobe Flash Player is GPU accelerated , even on Linux . However, this comes with some qualifications. Starting in version 9.0.115.0 , the Flash Player was able to display fullscreen content with GPU assistance.
Flash Uses The GPU
June 17, 2008 2:32 PM Modern browsers impose limits on the number of connections opened to a particular host. This affects ajax calls and more interestingly, file uploads in flash / flex: Multiple uploads get queued up based on these connection limits. File upload is easily done in Flash / Flex via FileReference.
Multiple Concurrent Uploads in Flex
Peter Pilgrim Java Champion Enterprise Weblog
Wednesday May 05, 2010 Java's Thoughts on Flash (Revisited) Let me introduce myself. My name is Peter Pilgrim, I am a Java Champion, number 91 in fact, British, living in the United Kingdom.
Java exceptions and Flex | Web Builder Zone
We Recommend These Resources I’ve seen some articles about this subject but I have not found one dealing with all the cases (webservices, BlazeDS, BlazeDS and Spring, data management). Also the approach from BlazeDS is different than the one used by Spring/BlazeDS integration, and this thing can be a little bit confusing for a beginner. Let’s assume that you have a layer of services that should be invoked from your Flex application.Alternative Flash players