Five Minute Flex Twitter Client

Yes, yet another Twitter client. Does the world really need another Twitter client? Probably not. But this particular client was created based on a challenge that was issued by a fellow developer. The challenge – create a Flex app that uses a social networking service, and has at least one custom component, all in five minutes or less.

Here is the source code download, go ahead and tool around with it: Flex 5 Miute Challenge Source Code
So go ahead and have some fun, get together with some developers and tryout the ‘Flex 5 Minute Challenge’

Since my buddy and I made this up we came up with these rules, feel free to change them:
Flex application must utilize any service provided by a publicly available social networking site.
The application must contain at least one custom component.
Time begins as soon as you start writing code and the app must be published as a release build before 5 minutes is up.

That’s it, it’s fun, give it a shot.

So here it is:
[kml_flashembed publishmethod="static" fversion="10.0.0" useexpressinstall="true" movie="http://www.uiandtherest.com/ui/share/TwitterSearch.swf" width="500" height="300" targetclass="flashmovie"]

Get Adobe Flash player

[/kml_flashembed]

Javascript and Flex Presentation Download

Here is my presentation from the 360Flex Conference.  The presentation topic is how to use Javascript and Flex together through the Flex Ajax Bridge and ExternalInterface.  The presentation also includes all of the code needed to run the examples.  This was a hands on presentation so the code is very generic but useful.  Your comments are always appreciated.

[slideshare id=1533095&doc=flexjavascript360flexpresentation-adrianpomilio-090604092612-phpapp01]

Creating Visual Experiences with Flex 3.0 : Book Review

On Dec. 1st I received my copy of ‘Creating Visual Experiences with Flex 3.0‘, by Juan Sanchez and Andy McIntosh (2009 Pearson Education Inc).  I am a bit of a book fanatic, and find that books are my best resource, but lately there has been a glut of Flex and Air books to hit the market so I was a little skeptical about an AFFB (another freaking flex book).  Then I read this book, actually the entire book in 3 1/2 days.  All I have to say is… “freaking brilliant.”  This is not AFFB. (more…)