Pixelbox

One of the first things you want to do when creating a Flex app is to remove all the default stuff, which makes your app look like everyone else’s. The most obvious default thing in Flex is that loading, progress initilisation bar you get before the application starts. Now before I start there is one [...]

I have been re factoring some stuff in action script 3 recently and the old date manipulation was a bit hacky. It included get time then adding multiples of milliseconds to epocs, which was a bit confusing. I though I would be a good idea to write a few methods in my personal utilities class, [...]

In a rather large step backwards in marketing and buzz word… well, buzzing, Adobe have changed the name of Apollo (their code name) to Adobe Integrated Runtime or AIR. I guess you could have seen this coming as the .air extension has been used for the install files since day one, although I thought Apollo [...]

The evening we popped down to Adobe live to be confronted with the normal (and expected) sales stuff, in fact there seemed to be almost as many people there from Adobe as visitors! After buying some books (more on them later) and .net magazine (again more on that later) we made a quick exit and [...]