Andrew Trice
Real-World Rich Internet Applications
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...
Friday March 27, 2009
Consuming Public Data - This Time It's The Weather
The amount of free, public data on the internet is amazing. There are so many good data providers everywhere, all waiting to be consumed by a rich interface, and mashed up into something that is relevant and useful. Read more...
Friday March 06, 2009
Census Mashup Redux
Back in 2007, I created a mashup combining US Census information with Flex charting capabilities and map visualization. I'm happy to say that it has been reborn! Read more...
Thursday February 12, 2009
Bitmap-Based Charting & Real Data
Recently, I've written a few posts explaining techniques for charting extremely large data sets using bitmap manipulation (here and here). Read more...
Monday February 02, 2009
Lazy-Loading Hierarchical Data
In theme with some of my recent posts regarding how to manage large data sets, this post will examine how to load large hierarchical data sets into a Flex application. Read more...
Monday January 05, 2009
Screen-Scraping Data in AIR
So, you probably already know about the strict security-sandbox and access rules inside of Flash/Flex applications, right? The sandbox limits you so that you can only access urls within the same domain, or those that are permitted via cross-domain policies. Read more...
Tuesday December 23, 2008
More on bitmap-based charting of large data sets
This post is a follow-on to my recent post on visualizing large data sets. In this example, we'll take the concept of bitmap-based charting and plot 150,000 data points, complete with a border and labels instead of just a bitmap containing colored pixels. Read more...
