Andrew Trice
Real-World Rich Internet Applications
Monday February 08, 2010
Help Improve the Flash Platform!
The next beta releases of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0 are inching closer, and now it is time for us to help Adobe ensure a quality product. Read more...
Friday January 22, 2010
Flash, Flex & Native 3D Transformations
Back with the release of Flash Player 10 last summer (yes, it's been that long), Adobe introduced native 3D transformations on visual objects in Flash. I've heard people say this isn't "all that", and been disappointed with it's capabilities, but I wanted to share a few examples that show it really is quite powerful. Read more...
Friday November 20, 2009
Join the Cynergy Team!
If you’re a Flex developer looking to take your game to the next level, Cynergy would really like to talk to you. Read more...
Tuesday November 17, 2009
AIR 2.0 Multitouch Examples
Now that the AIR 2.0 and Flash Player 10.1 betas are out and available for the public on Adobe Labs, I just wanted to post a little reminder that all of my multitouch examples from Adobe MAX are online at: http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/andrewtrice?entry=max_recap_multi_touch_development Read more...
Thursday November 05, 2009
Bypassing 16769025 pixel limit in FP 10
If you have ever tried to work with large images in Adobe Flex or Adobe Flash, you've likely run into this issue. Back in Flash Player 8/9, you couldn't have a display object larger than 2880x2880. Now, In Flash Player 10, you can create BitmapData objects that are up to 16769025 pixels (be it 4095x4095, 3353805x5, 2048x8191, or any other combination that is less than 16769025 total pixels). Read more...
Tuesday October 13, 2009
MAX Recap: Multi-Touch Development with Flex
Another great Adobe MAX event has come and gone, and I am excited to share the content from my presentation this year. Read more...
Wednesday June 10, 2009
Cynergy.Congress - Flex 4 & Catalyst in the Wild
In case you may have missed Dave Wolf's post earlier today, Dave announced the release of Cynergy.Congress, a directory of the members of Congress, created using the Adobe Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder/Flex 4 workflow. In this post, we will walk through the details of the application, what it does, and how it was created. Read more...
Wednesday May 27, 2009
Excerpt: Dynamic Skinning and the Drawing API
Here's another excerpt from my new book "Professional Flex 3", Chapter 25: Dynamic Skinning and the Drawing API. 8 authors contributed to the material in this book, and it is full of useful information. Go get it! Read more...
Excerpt: Intro to MVC Frameworks
An excerpt from my new book "Professional Flex 3", Chapter 6hapter 60: Intro to MVC Frameworks. Read more...
Excerpt: Modular Application Development
Here's another excerpt from my new book "Professional Flex 3", Chapter 66: Modular Application Development. Read more...
Tuesday May 26, 2009
Excerpt: Application Performance Strategies
Here's an excerpt from my new book "Professional Flex 3", Chapter 67: Application Performance Strategies. Read more...
Wednesday April 29, 2009
Experimenting With The New Flex 4 Animation/Effects Framework
The new Flex 4 Animation/Effects framework certainly looks to be promising. Here's a quick example showing how to use use MotionPath and Keyframe instances to create complex animations for rollOver and rollOut effects on Flex components. Read more...
Friday April 17, 2009
Visualizing Your Taxes With Flex
This morning I stumbled upon this post on flowingdata.com; In the spirit of the recent "tax day" (taxes were due on April 15th), it provides a dataset showing the average of how many days you work for per year, just to pay your taxes. Read more...
Wednesday April 15, 2009
Using Image Loops for Motion Graphics
I was recently chatting with Mike Wolf, our Principal Architect for .NET/Silverlight/WPF, and we stumbled upon an odd conclusion... Read more...
Friday April 10, 2009
Adobe AIR, Windows 7 + Multi-touch
Here are the fruits of some R & D effort that I've been involved with here at Cynergy. Read more...
