May 2010

Today I’m starting a series of posts exploring a workflow starting from design in Photoshop CS5 through prototyping in Flash Catalyst CS5 to implementation in Flash Builder 4. I’ll import my Photoshop design into Flash Catalyst where I’ll prototype the user interaction. Actually, I expect I’ll be able to do more than prototype it. I [...]

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The Web: Content or Applications?

by David Salahi on May 18, 2010

Roger Johansson, of 456 Berea St, writes in a post titled The Web is a web of content, not an application framework that he doesn’t see the web as a place for application development. He cites the etymology of the term “web” as epitomizing a community of content, not of applications. He quotes from Ben [...]

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Here’s a tutorial on how to connect to a MySQL server using AMFPHP. Everything needed to send and receive data is in the sample files including the server-side PHP code. This tutorial is loosely based on Ivan Ilijasic’s Populate components with data using AMFPHP recipe in the Adobe Flex Cookbook. Ivan’s tutorial is nice in [...]

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BrowserManager Returns null

by David Salahi on May 6, 2010

When you need to determine the domain name that a SWF was loaded from the BrowserManager class is very convenient and easy to use. However, there’s one gotcha that you have to know about. I’ll show you both the code you need as well as the gotcha. First, here’s the code you need to retrieve [...]

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