FlexPaper 1.2 available – PDF viewing for Adobe Flex & Flash

It has been about a month since version 1.1 was released and the amount of traffic and questions I receive has increased quite a lot, which is great! Thanks for sending in feedback and reporting bugs. It really helps in improving the application. If you are new to FlexPaper and don’t know what it is, scroll to the bottom of this page for an example of what it looks like. Find...

FlexPaper v1.1, PDF viewing for Flex/Flash

The weather has been absolutely stunning here in New Zealand around x-mas and NY and while I have been in the water most of the time, I have still managed to spend some time on new features for my open source project FlexPaper. A bunch of minor issues were also resolved.
I dub this version 1.1.

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FlexPaper sees daylight – PDF viewing for Adobe Flex part 2

After a weekend of poor waves I finally managed to get my act together to finish the last bits and pieces on FlexPaper. It is far from perfect but after a bunch of corrections and optimizations (for large docs etc.) it is now ready enough to be considered to be a proper release.

Find everything about it here.

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Introducing FlexPaper – PDF viewing for Adobe Flex

The swell on the west coast which I usually...

Flash vs Silverlight – past 10 months evolution

With so much talk currently going on about Silverlight at the PDC, I thought it would be interesting to see how the past 10 months has looked in terms of market penetration for Flash and Silverlight. The following snap shots are taken from riastats.com. Looks like Silverlight has gained around 15% marketshare in the past 10 months which is quite...

Adobe Flex demand outgrowing Silverlight

It can be a bit tricky to see how these two platforms perform against each other in terms of demand, since the word “Flex” is a broad term used in many other job ads than developer jobs and “Silverlight” is a very specific word. Still, after matching both developer and flex/silverlight at Simplyhired,...

Datagrids with footers

I just thought I’d give a heads up on very handy extension of the datagrid and datagridadv which gives you the possibility of having a footer with a sum/avg/whatever function. It was initially developed by Alex and later extended by Doug at the ForestAndTrees blog. Find source code and other examples here.

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Flex 4 – A quick & handy intro

If you like me are short on time to get into all gazillion posts about all the different features of Flex 4 and would rather just have a free & quick tutorial to quickly browse through the main features, the guide currently developed by Ted is a good place to start.

Its latest chapter on states offers a pretty quick intro...

Creating PDF files client side with Adobe Flex

AlivePDF is a open source PDF library which allows you to leverage PDF functionality with your Adobe Flex applications. It is completely client based and seems to be the best library out there at the moment unless you want to go with the more heavy Adobe Livecycle option. AlivePDF allows you to do both customized printing of drawn objects and text as well as capturing and printing...

Adobe Flex vs Silverlight, the Morgan Stanley case

With Morgan Stanley choosing Adobe Flex as technology for their trading platform (named Matrix), a debate around these two platforms fired up. Morgan Stanley’s choice is obviously a big win for Adobe as a step into the enterprise software world. Morgan Stanley’s Matrix founder and global director...