Aug 17th 07
Posted by Remus Stratulat in Flex
Statement:
This is the blog of Yahoo’s Flash Platform team. We will use these pages to report on all things Flash at Yahoo! From articles to tutorials, new components and libraries, notes and discussions, experiments and hacks – all of that will be here.
This is an interesting entry on the market especially because the libraries they will develop will be open sourced. And having Flex SDK also open source good times will come to Flex/Flash developers.
Jun 19th 07
Posted by Remus Stratulat in Others
I have a teeshirt from MAX 2004 that says that.
We are using more and more paper per person every day but also we are using less and less paper every day. How comes that? Well we are using more and more paper and more and more trees are cut to produce that paper. We are reading more newspapers and magazines, everything we buy is packaged in paper, we even take our groceries back home in paper bags.
On the other hand more and more information is available in electronic format. I read less and less things on paper, most of the information I acquire is coming from the web or emails or different documents.
How big was the impact of web on our forests? I guess nobody ever calculated that. Nobody calculated how many trees were saved because we are using PDF documents to pass around information this days. If I print all the documents stored on my computer I will consume maybe 100kg of paper (and I was shy with this estimate). So in that respect the Internet might be one of the most environment friendly structure/entity on the planet.
P.S. to bad Internet needs electricity to run
Jun 11th 07
Posted by Remus Stratulat in Flex
The new Flex Builder 3 features include:
- Support for the new Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR). (old codename Apollo)
- Code refactoring.
- Memory and performance profilers.
- SWF file size reduction through persistent framework caching.
- Advanced datagrid.
- Web service introspection
A very comprehensive article was written by Matt Chotin
Apr 26th 07
Posted by Remus Stratulat in Flex
Adobe is doing a huge step by making Flex SDK open source. The MPL license will allow organizations and commercial enterprises to modify Flex and create more (or less) powerful tools.
In my opinion this is a move that will shape the web for the years to come.
Apr 4th 07
Posted by Remus Stratulat in Flex
Flex has two friends…
That was one crazy idea, to create a person for Flex on myspace. When I am writing this Flex has only two friends but I hope it will get more. I’m not a myspace person so I can not become Flex’s friend but I totally dig this.
Mar 27th 07
Posted by Remus Stratulat in Flex
This cool new application is using the API exposed by myFeedz to provide a different view on the informations.
What i like about this application is that you can browse through the related tags and go on a path that can start with Flex and discover almost anything from the blogosphere. It kind of reminded me of the Finder from Mac OS X in terms of navigation technique, however I liked that application enough to compile a mc and use it.
The only thing that needs some more polishing is maybe the article list that is a bit to plain for my taste.

Mar 16th 07
Posted by Remus Stratulat in Flex
The Flex module for Apache and IIS provides web-tier compilation of MXML and ActionScript files on Apache and IIS web servers. This lets you rapidly compile and test an application by simply requesting the main application file from a web browser, similar to working server-side scripting languages like PHP, ColdFusion or JSP.
That means that writing a Flex application has become easier then ever. All you have to do now is to write your MXML and ActionScript code in any editor you want and just go into the browser and hit F5.
You can find more details and download it at Adobe Labs
Mar 14th 07
Posted by Remus Stratulat in Others
Just this morning I have realized that most of us programmers have our own religion. A very simple one however some of us tend to be quite fanatic about it.
AC/BC – After coffee/Before coffee
So, don’t talk with me BC.
Feb 22nd 07
Posted by Remus Stratulat in Flex
A very cool Flex application has appeared on the web.

This application allows you to track the progress of bikers on different stages of the contest and to see pictures along the track. If you are passionate about this you can also see a lot of statistics.
And everything is over imposed on a Yahoo map.
I really enjoyed looking at the pictures (I’m not into cycling) along the track.
Jan 17th 07
Posted by Remus Stratulat in Flex
Yes, I do. However this is not the subject of the post. I found out a very nice cartoon about regular expressions. A geek joke..
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