Tagged Entries
Entries matching: open source
Question of the week: Open source projects are extremely important to the growth of a development community. The Flex community has always had a large number of open source projects and libraries that have been contributions from both community...
Something you might not be aware of is that the part of Comcast that I work for is all open source. We use open source technology, we open source projects, we're even all on Macs which is something new for...
So far we've seen how to implement the calendar component, and explored the logic inside the Calendar class itself. From here I will show the logic inside of the Day class, and talk about potential ways to expand the...
In my previous entry I discussed including and implementing the Calendar component in a new project. In this next entry I'm going to explore the Calendar class. The basic idea for the Calendar class is to assemble a collection of...
Grant Skinner has been thinking about and researching open sources licenses. I think this is timely blog post that everyone involved in software should take a look to get a quick high level understanding of the most popular open source licenses.
RJ blogged a bit earlier, but I thought I'd share a couple of my thoughts too. We all knew this would come eventually, but now is official: Flash is more open thanks to the Open Sceen Project. Although we're not going to see the impact overnight this is going to be very important for mobile, devices and large organizations in the years to come. The one catch is we don't know the exact licensing yet.
The best way to learn Flex is to get in there, and to start working with it. However, there are things you might not pick up on on your own. One of the best ways to get to know the inner workings of the Flex framework, and to learn how others do it. Now, where can you look to see how others have done things? Here are a few ideas...
Announced on Ryan Stewart's blog and the Adobe Pressroom this morning is Adobe Open Screen: an initiative that involves not only releasing the SWF, FLV and FLV4 file format specifications, but also removes licensing restrictions around the next version of the AIR and Flash player.
I have been thinking about the current state of the "View Source" option that the web has so radically benefited from. With the Flash Player and it's radical success over the last ten years, it may be time to ask why we are so ready to part with the "View Source" command that we have become used to in the browser. For years we have all been focused on our creations in Flash, so stunning, and compelling has the work been that it's need to be freely available to the masses as source has certainly fallen to the wayside.
In this podcast I chat with Mike Potter from the Flex marketing team about marketing your Flex application, what's new in Flex 3 as well as open source as it relates to the Flex world.
Tag Cloud
Facebook Application Development
@InsideRIA on Twitter