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Kuler-Splash with Flex

By Brendon Smith on October 4, 2009

What Kuler-Splash does: Click the button in the far right of the screen it looks like an on button. Then select a style then search for a color or tag name like green or hot. Then select a color scheme when finished it will automatically generate your art unless you are using Virtual Pollock in [...]

Posted in ActionScript, Adobe, art, i-create | Tagged ActionScript, Flash, Flash Develop, kuler | 1 Response

Technologically Agnostic

By Brendon Smith on June 6, 2009

Technologically agnostic and liking it. When it comes to new technologies many come and go so it can be a challenge to see which ones really take root. People love to talk about open source technology and I myself love open technology because it encourages developers like myself to play with whatever I want and [...]

Posted in .net, ActionScript, Adobe, C#, i-create, Silverlight | Tagged ActionScript, art, C#, Flash Develop, Open Source, Silverlight | Leave a response

Alchemy Its No Myth

By Brendon Smith on November 27, 2008

The future of web applications lies in the hands of rich internet application developers. The two main platforms of the future will be Adobe Flash/Flex/Air and Silverlight. This should be extremely apparent to most web developers now. Web applications have been evolving more and more to act like desktop applications. In web 2.0 we saw [...]

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Adobe Open Sources Flex!

By Brendon Smith on April 26, 2007

Adobe announced today it has plans to make Flex open source. This will of course help ensure Adobe wins the RIA platform race. M$ might make silverlight an open source project but I strongly doubt it (they will probably announce how Zunes can now play pac-man). They have an announcement coming out at MIX. Adobe already has all the developer tools that integrate well together. Flex since its release has seen slow adoption. Now that it is open source it will be sure to be popping up all over the web. This is great because anyone who has studied or used flex knows it is capable of making extremely intuitive applications that is simply unmatched in any other platform on the web!

Adobe Announces Flex Going Open Source
Open Flex Source Files

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Flash For Drupal and WordPress

By Brendon Smith on April 24, 2007

Anyone who has designed in flash knows first hand what a pleasure it is and how nice the results can be. Flash has come a long way since future splash and it shows. A number of people in the open source community have been developing flash skins for everyones favorite content management systems namely Drupal and WordPress! Drupal recently added Services module with version 5 makes configuration a breeze!

You can find an excellent article by Justin Girard here on how to integrate drupal with Flex using amfphp!

For those of you in the wordpress camp you can also enjoy a flash front-end!

Drupal and Wordpress developers have also been working on an extension that integrates the administration featuers directly into firefox with

http://groups.drupal.org/node/1331

http://www.schloebe.de/firefox-extensions/wordpress-helper/#english

ScribeFox

Through the use of amf-php it would also be a good idea to develop an Apollo authoring application.

Side Note on M$ Silver Pile of Poo:

Lets make it simple it is not cross platform otherwise it would support Linux. You don’t even get all the advatages of using it if you are an Apple user. It is simply too little too late for microsoft. I personally wish they would stick with their operating system and not bother with creative applications that should be left to the professionals at Adobe. Maybe with their free time they could make ie7 better..

11Years of Flash – Long Live Flash!

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