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Tour de Flex

May 30, 2009

A valuable Flex resource, in case you’re not familiar with it, is Adobe’s Tour de Flex. If you’re doing any kind of Flex development, this really is a “must have”. Besides showing off what you can do using Flex (and Adobe AIR), the Tour de Flex provides a single, simple interface for referencing:

  • Flex components (UI, containers, effects, validators, etc.)
  • Services (data and network interactions)
  • Cloud APIs (Amazon, eBay, Flickr, Google, Twitter, etc.)
  • Mapping (Google, Mapquest, Yahoo!)
  • Third-party tools

Most categories also have a “techniques” section, giving specifics for how to accomplish common tasks. There’s tons of sample code that are also visible in action, so you can easily understand how the code works in practice. And, of course, the related language reference is included.

Tour de Flex is available in both an online and desktop version (thanks to Adobe AIR for the latter).

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jQuery Tips, Tricks, and Miscellaneous

April 18, 2009
This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Introduction to jQuery

In this, the last post in my series on jQuery, I mention an odd lot of interesting things about jQuery that are worth knowing. Some involve specific code; others aid understanding of jQuery’s philosophy. You may or may not want to also read these earlier posts on jQuery:

  1. [intlink id=”110″ type=”post”]Incorporating jQuery into an HTML page[/intlink]
  2. [intlink id=”248″ type=”post”]Selecting page elements[/intlink]
  3. [intlink id=”261″ type=”post”]Adding event handlers[/intlink]
  4. [intlink id=”298″ type=”post”]Applying effects[/intlink]
  5. [intlink id=”300″ type=”post”]Manipulating elements[/intlink]
  6. [intlink id=”302″ type=”post”]Ajax[/intlink]
  7. [intlink id=”312″ type=”post”]Plug-ins[/intlink]

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A Primer on jQuery Plug-Ins

April 11, 2009

In this, Part 7 of my (consistently delayed) series on the jQuery JavaScript framework, I talk about plug-ins you can use to expand jQuery’s features. You may want to read some of the previous six parts before getting into this one:

  1. [intlink id=”110″ type=”post”]Incorporating jQuery into an HTML page[/intlink]
  2. [intlink id=”248″ type=”post”]Selecting page elements[/intlink]
  3. [intlink id=”261″ type=”post”]Adding event handlers[/intlink]
  4. [intlink id=”298″ type=”post”]Applying effects[/intlink]
  5. [intlink id=”300″ type=”post”]Manipulating elements[/intlink]
  6. [intlink id=”302″ type=”post”]Ajax[/intlink]

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Building AIR Application Menus with the MenuBuilder Framework

March 31, 2009

An article I wrote for Peachpit Press titled Building AIR Application Menus with the MenuBuilder Framework was just published at Peachpit’s Web site. In this article I discuss how the MenuBuilder JavaScript framework can be used to easily turn an XML file into an AIR application’s menus.

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Adding Ajax with jQuery

March 29, 2009
This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series Introduction to jQuery

In this, the somewhat delayed Part 6 of my series on the jQuery JavaScript framework, I talk about performing Ajax requests using jQuery. You may want to read the previous five parts before getting into this one:

  1. [intlink id=”110″ type=”post”]Incorporating jQuery into an HTML page[/intlink]
  2. [intlink id=”248″ type=”post”]Selecting page elements[/intlink]
  3. [intlink id=”261″ type=”post”]Adding event handlers[/intlink]
  4. [intlink id=”298″ type=”post”]Applying effects[/intlink]
  5. [intlink id=”300″ type=”post”]Manipulating elements[/intlink]

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