‘Code’ Archive

Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3

From Adobe Flex Exchange :
”The Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 allows you to create interactive, animated content in Flash, and use it in Flex as a Flex component. This is an Alpha version that was built for Flex 2.0.1. The final version will be included as part of the Flex 3 SDK. You can [...]

Flex looking, Drupal Thinking.

I’ve been playing quite a lot with Flex these years. Since I use flash actionscript for more than 10 years now, I’ve seen Flex - from its beinning - as an immediate and coherent future for Flash Apps.
By the way, Flex’s capabilities and power always appealed me, but I was missing something.
Within Flash, retrieving data [...]

Meteora ?

I don’t like Mootools. Period.
But it looks like there’s been something a bit interesting (this time) growing on Moo’s basis :
http://meteora.astrata.com.mx
Looks like Vista’s widgets gadgets, for the web. Build interactive Javascript widgets in 10 minutes. Get the exact copy of your neighbour’s calendar within seconds.
One day, people will forget what “coding” means, because setting up [...]

Protocol Buffers ?

Google argues in getting xml replaced by a lower level binary IDL. Even tho I’m not really fond of Google’s goals and methods, I’m really impressed by the pertinence of this proposition… and even more impressed to see the doc and code open-sourced.
”What are protocol buffers?
Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for serializing [...]

Great Grid-based Design Resources

VandelayDesign posted a nice resources list concerning Grid Design, not really a fresh news as the article is a few monthes old, but this is a really valuable post a lot of people in this business should read and dig.
it’s here