Category Archives: Flex

MAX Frameworks Session: One Application, Four Implementations (Code Available)

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: October 19, 2009
This year at MAX, I organized a “Flex Frameworks” session called “Using Flex Frameworks to build Data Driven Applications”. I wanted to stay away from a high level / rhetorical debate or panel. I also did not want a session aimed at proclaiming a (subjective) winner. What I had in mind was a pragmatic [...]
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My MAX session video posted: “Model Driven Development with Flex 4 and LCDS3″

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: October 9, 2009
Videos for 250+ hours of MAX sessions have already been posted here (free and without geographical restrictions). Another easy way to find a specific video is to use the MAX session locator and click the “movie” icon that now appears next to the session title. The video of my “Model Driven Development with Flash Builder [...]
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Only 25 seats left in the “Flex Frameworks” session at MAX

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: September 23, 2009
MAX is only 10 days away… If you are interested in Flex Frameworks (Mate, Swiz, PureMVC, Cairngorm), you don’t want to miss the “Using Flex Frameworks to Build Data Driven Applications” session where framework creators/experts (Laura Arguello, Chris Scott, Alex Uhlmann, Javier Julio) will walk you through the architecture and the code of the same [...]
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Model Driven Development with Flex 4 and LCDS 3 Screencast

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: September 17, 2009
I recently presented a new “Model Driven Development with Flex 4″ session at a few conferences and Flash Camps, so I figured I would record a screencast of the demo app for people who did not attend. If you saw a previous version of this demo, this screencast is still worth watching because I’m using [...]
Also posted in Flex4, LCDS, MDD | 19 Comments

Don’t miss the “Flex Frameworks” session at MAX

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: August 7, 2009
I’ve been working on putting together what should be a fun and informative session at MAX this year. The session is called: “Using Flex Frameworks to Build Data-Driven Applications”. This is a 3 hour BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) session. The idea is to look at four versions of the exact same application: each version built [...]
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AIR-based Mortgage Calculator Desktop Widget (with ILOG Gauges)

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: July 28, 2009
Here is a simple example of using a chromeless, transparent window in AIR to build a widget-type application. I know: yet another mortgage application… but to make things more interesting, I used the cool ILOG Elixir gauges to display and enter the principal, monthly payment, rate, and term. No rocket science here, but a nice [...]
Also posted in Air, ilog | 10 Comments

Building a Flex Application with the Parsley Framework

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: July 16, 2009
After my recent explorations of “Swiz”, and “Spring ActionScript” (1,2,3), I decided to take the new version of the Parsley framework for a test drive, and build the Parsley version of inSync: the simple Contact Management application I often use to try out and demonstrate different features and techniques in Flex and Adobe AIR. Parsley is [...]
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Building the Server-Side of the “Tour de Flex” Real-Time Dashboard

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: May 26, 2009
Greg Wilson and Damien Mandrioli are also blogging about the new Tour de Flex real time dashboard today. Greg is the inspiration behind everything “Tour de Flex”, including the idea of the dashboard. He has the story behind the genesis of this project on his blog. Damien (from IBM/ILOG) did a fantastic job at building [...]
Also posted in BlazeDS, Java, LCDS | 54 Comments

“Model Driven Development with Flash Builder 4 and LCDS 3” at Flex 360 Indianapolis

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: May 15, 2009
I’ll be presenting two sessions at Flex 360 Indianapolis next week. In the “Flex / BlazeDS Integration Project” session (Monday), I’ll provide a brief introduction of the Spring framework and the “Dependency Injection” pattern, followed by a deep dive into the brand new “Spring / BlazeDS integration project”. My second session (on Wednesday) is “Model Driven [...]
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New Update to the Spring BlazeDS Integration Test Drive

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: May 12, 2009
I made some additional changes to the Spring BlazeDS Integration (RC1) Test Drive: The Test Drive now includes an annotation-based configuration sample (the Company Manager sample). Spring annotations such as @Service, @RemotingDestination, @Autowired, @RemotingInclude, and @RemotingExclude make it really easy to configure your beans and make them available through Remoting. As an example, here is the [...]
Also posted in BlazeDS, Java, Spring | 27 Comments