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...

Free source control hosting in the Mesh cloud

I was recently looking for a free shared space where I could host source control without making it public for a project I am in the process of starting. After looking around and mostly finding commercial solutions, I eventually found a pretty neat solution by using Microsoft Mesh together with SVN/Tortoise. The solution is basically...

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...