Performancing now Scribfire

So I am getting back into blogging. It’s been a while. A long while. Partially because it’s been a major learning session for say… oh… the last year. But my notes and bits and pieces really can only be best tracked on the web. But I had a problem. I used to use Performancing [...]

XAware and Jibberbit

Two open source ways of moving data around with transformations.
XAware and Jibberbit… if I haven’t mispelled them.

must….blog….again….!

It’s been… forever. I almost added a blogger blog only to find out we already have one unused. Doh! So… well…

Top 25 Web 2.0 Apps for Money, Finance, and Investment

I still don’t go for the idea of managing my personal financial info stored on someone elses servers, i.e. not my bank or other known “trusted” provider, but there are some useful apps in this list. Zillow is mentioned, along with Rentometer. Note that “trusted” is in quotes.
Top 25 Web 2.0 Apps for [...]

Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0

Quick overview on lots of news.
Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0

Holub Associates: UML Reference Card

Quick overview of UML symbols.
Holub Associates: UML Reference Card:

Allen Holub’s UML Quick Reference

Screen Resolution and Page Layout (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)

It’s a great reason to get new monitors!!! Helps us work faster! But we could use it for all the page scrolling we do.
Screen Resolution and Page Layout (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox):

Big monitors are the easiest way to increase white-collar productivity, and anyone who makes at least $50,000 per year ought to have at least [...]

Fluid Mask 2.0 - $10 DISCOUNT - Vertus Fluid Mask Plugin | PhotoshopSupport.com

We tried the demo of onOne but it wasn’t so intuitive to use. Maybe we’ll give this a spin.
Fluid Mask 2.0 - $10 DISCOUNT - Vertus Fluid Mask Plugin | PhotoshopSupport.com:

Fluid Mask - Software Overview Fluid Mask is a highly advanced software tool designed to make life easier for everyone who creates cut outs. Built [...]

PHP Proxy for Yahoo! Web Services

It’s for Yahoo, it’s for Ajax calls, but it’s really simple and easy to modify for other usage, like the stuff we’re developing. So, we’ll give it a shot.
Use a Web Proxy for Cross-Domain XMLHttpRequest Calls - Yahoo! Developer Network
For the Yahoo! Developer Network JavaScript Developer Center we have provided sample code for [...]

and then some

more component stuff. for my own reference!
Underwhelmed by Macromedia Flash 8 at Dynamic Flash
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More component goodness

FlashGuru Consulting » Flash Components
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aSwing and AWML

XML markup for aSwing…
http://www.gui-rd.org/swhx/swhx_aswing/html/
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UI Component Framework Comparison Table

A comparison of the following frameworks.
Open Source Flash - components
v1 v2 Flex2 AsWing ActionStep BitComponents EnFlash mCom SMX Izzy
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AMES - the fully open-source cousin of FAMES

But as I mentioned in a previous post, FlashDevelop may be the one for me… although there are some projects that seem to use Eclipse really well. I’ll still be looking into the Eclipse - MTASC setups.
Open Source Flash - ames
A fully open-source development workflow using a combination of the following open source [...]

To FAMES or not to FAMES

Good review and breakdown of some popular tools for, essentially, free Flash development. The post is over a year old and other tools have surfaced, i.e. FlashDevelop. But it’s good to see and read nonetheless.
BIT-101 Blog » Blog Archive » To FAMES or not to FAMES
I thought I’d make an in-depth analysis of [...]

AS2Components

Contender #4… lite weight. Nice.
AS2UI
The component library has passed its design phased and is in the proof of concept phase. Try the sample application featuring: context sensitive menus, drag and drop tree nodes, strong data binding with xml source, a complex table/tree widget with pulldowns and invisible fields and context sensitive component behavior. [...]

Welcome to AsWing.org!

Contender #3… whoa… 100,000 items in a list!
Home - AsWing.org - AsWing.org
AsWing is an Open Source Flash ActionScript GUI framework and library that allows developers to create UI’s for their flash applications (or RIA’s) more easily.
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Welcome to the EnFlash project community site

Contender #2… groovy
EnFlash.org : HomePage
It provides a set of visual components, utility classes and data structures that ease the development of sophisticated cross platform applications. EnFlash is based on pure object oriented ActionScript? 2 and takes advantage of XML and CSS
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The SMX Components Set

Contender #1
SourceSecure Trac - Trac
SMX is a component library for Flash MX 2004. It is written from the ground up in actionscript 2.0, and while it bears little resemblance in structure to the popular MX components built by Macromedia, it does retain some of the more familiar functionality while including a lot of [...]

Building the V3 Components for Flash 9

From the good folks at gskinner… AS3 is nice… Don’t want to do AS2. Alas… I must. But hey it’s not AS1!
gskinner.com: gBlog: Building the V3 Components for Flash 9
I can’t talk about specific details yet, but I can say that we are applying everything we learned about developing fast, light components from [...]

XP3 Professional Component Suite

Hmm…. not cheap though… but might be worth it… still digging.
Flash MX2004 Components
Although XP3 includes over 50 Flash MX2004 Actionscript 2 Components, it is so much more than simply a collection of components, it is a complete framework for the development of powerful enterprise class form based RIA’s incorporating a full set of [...]

Battle of the component sets

So this is a bit of what I was looking for. I don’t want to be reinventing the wheel! It’s an old post though (1 year!) so it’s time to dig in and see what’s happened with these since then.
5 1/2 blog » Battle of the component sets
Just a year ago we were [...]

Gskinner Lightweight Interface Components

Yeah, late to the game. But hey it’s cool to know. How useful are they now? Don’t know… still digging.
gskinner.com: gBlog: Announcement: Gskinner Lightweight Interface Components
I’m really happy to announce my latest internal project, named glic (previously Daedalus), or “gskinner lightweight interface components”. My company (gskinner.com) spends a lot of time building rich [...]

Lightweight Slider Component

Tight! Still hunting for a lightweight datagrid…
play.ground » Lightweight Slider Component
Free Slider Component. 3Kb compiled AS2 component, compatible with Flash Player 6, 7 and 8(8.5).
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Improved doLater

If we have stuff to work on that is on the timeline, this could be very helpful.
play.ground » Improved doLater
There is often a need to postpone execution of the function. doLater method of UIObject is doing the job, but sometimes we need to be able to pass parameters and to delay execution more [...]