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Some folks migrating 3.x projects to 4.x have run into noticeable performance degradation, especially if they are using the default skins that ship with each SDK. This article attempts to explain why and propose alternative implementations. The main reason for the difference is that the the default skins/theme for 4.x is Spark and the default skins/theme for 3.x is Halo. Spark skins are simply not as fast as the Halo skins. The Halo skins are written as highly optimized ActionScript and are based on a lightweight Flex class called ProgrammaticSkin.
The Official Flex Team Blog
Flash Builder Plug-in for SAP NetWeaver Gateway going away in April A little over a year ago the Flash Builder 4.5 plug-in for SAP NetWeaver Gateway was published as a beta on Adobe Labs (at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashbuilder_sap ). As a research beta, the plug-in only works with older versions of Flash Builder (4.5 and 4.6). The plug-in was never shipped as an official product, and isn’t going to be developed further – we’ve discussed open-sourcing the project with the code owners but this is unfortunately not going to be possible. If you still rely on this research project, please grab the bits now – as part of routine cleanup it will be disappearing off of Labs in April 2013. Apache Flex 4.9.0 Released!
Advanced CSS Selector With the Flex SDK Gumbo alpha release almost ready, I wanted to blog about the new advanced CSS selector capabilities. We’ve added support for descendant selectors, class conditions for type selectors (previously class conditions were only registerd by themselves at the top level, i.e.
Pete's Blog
Peter deHaan
New Adobe ColdFusion blog — http://cfexamples.com/ I started another new blog ( cfexamples.com ) the other month, but have been holding off on posting the URL until I got some more content posted. So far just a random collection of ColdFusion things that I could remember from my ColdFusion days and some new stuff from ColdFusion 8 and 9. As always, you can follow my sad little Twitter account ( @pdehaan ) to see the latest aggregated posts from my mini example blog empire (as well as other random tweets). Flex Hero SDK 4.5.0.18623 preview build available now
Daniel Koestler
Last week, Adobe announced the public betas of Flex “Hero” and Flash Builder “Burrito.” You can use these tools to begin creating your own mobile applications that run Flash, AIR, and Flex content, and I recommend you check them out here and here . If you’re looking for the next step in getting started with a real-world Flex app, however, you may be interested in the following: I created an open-source application called SurveyApe , which should help you get started in the process of creating robust, real-world Flex mobile applications.
Flex PM Updates Over the last few months we’ve announced some exciting new members of the Flex PM team: Andrew focusing on Flash Builder and Deepa focusing on the Flex SDK. With Doug focusing on Flash Catalyst and folks like Vera and Bill helping across our ecosystem, the Flex PM team is in better shape than ever.
Matt Chotin
Adobe - Flex Quick Start Basics: Using the Repeater component
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