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Developing Flex Components Book

By Mike Jones ⋅ May 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

If you weren’t already aware I’ve been writing a book on Flex component development which will be published by Addison-Wesley, called Developing Flex Components: Using ActionScript 3.0 & MXML to Extend Flex and AIR Applications. Originally it was targeted at Flex 3; however, as Flex 4 in the soon to be “new kid on the block” I’ve decided to re-write it so it now focuses on the new “Spark” components…

I’m on Adobe TV

By Mike Jones ⋅ December 9, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments

Back in August I was asked if I’d like to do a few “tips and tricks” style videos for Adobe TV. The first of which has just been posted. This video covers off how to take a custom component and create a live preview from it, so you can then distribute it to members of your team or to the general developer populous.

Flex 3 Wipe Effects

By Mike Jones ⋅ November 14, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

In my previous post I was looking at Flex effects and how to combine and target them. However watch out if you are using multiple mask based effects, like Wipe effects).

Flash on the Beach 08 Session Notes

By Mike Jones ⋅ October 15, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Another year another fantastic conference in Brighton – I’m obviously speaking about Flash on the Beach. What a fantastic conference, not only was it bigger and better but John announced that there would be a Flash on the Beach Miami in 2009. I’m pretty stoked by this as John had sworn me to secrecy over [...]

FLVPLayback component for Flex

By Mike Jones ⋅ February 29, 2008 ⋅ 11 comments

As most of my close friends know, I have a bit of a thing for components. So it will come as no surprise that I have a few new ones to release. The first of these is a video playback component that I have shamelessly called FLVPlayback after the similar component of the same name [...]