I’m posting “Chapter 5: Working with XML” from my book “Flex 3 with Java”. This chapter will give you an idea about this book and its content. This is fairly small and simple chapter to start with collaborating XML into your Flex applications. This chapter mainly focuses on how to use and manipulate XML data [...]

I’m really happy to announce that I’m writing a book about Flex 3. This is my first professional book authoring experience so I am bit nervous and super excited about it. This book will be focused on getting started with Flex 3 programming with Java integration perspective in mind. However this book can be useful [...]

I have been discussing this question on flex-india since last week and saw many and verity of responses in developer’s and client’s point of view and saw some blog reactions to it as by Abdul Qabiz. Thought I would post my point of view on this topic whether search engines should index SWF content or [...]

Finally I finished porting ShoutCast! to Ribbit Beta 2 API. Chuck Freedman was asking me this for DEMO but due to my busyness or laziness I couldn’t able to port it on time, sorry for that Chuck I know I missed DEMO showcase.
About ShoutCast! Beta 2 Release: Along with other features from beta 1 I [...]

Recently I was going through Ted’s post about SEO services and The Flex Directory Experiment and while digging more on this topic I came across this post about Google is using Adobe’s Search Engine SDK to index flash/flex based websites. This is indeed good news for the flex/flash developers who care about search engine ranking.
For [...]

From last one week suddenly everybody is talking/blogging/digging and tweetering about Ribbit and there is reason for it and that is Ribbit is officially open now for everybody, their Flash/Flex based API is available for everyone. And I have a reason too to talk and blog about it and that reason is “I officially won [...]

Yep! that’s a weird title but couldn’t think of anything better at this point, basically what I am going to explain you in this post is how you can integrate Flex SWF in XUL and develop something really cool Firefox extension (something like Google toolbar). I am going to explain you how to develop toolbar [...]

Announcing ShoutCast! beta release, with most of the feature in place. Summary about Ribbit Phone, It is an API enables you to develop and deploy VoIP based application in Flex/AIR/AS3. Ribbit has introduced loads of new features including recent one is “Ribbit Shout”, Ribbit Shout lets you create, record and send a voice message to [...]

One fine day I decided to port my feed reader application (which I have not yet finished) on AIR. (I must admit that I got inspired by SearchCoders dashboard), my application uses lot of html rendering to show feed items but soon I ran into mx:HTML component html link not opening issue. The issue was [...]

Well not exactly integrating Yahoo Pipe with Flex but you can use Yahoo Pipes within flex application to give your application an extra edge. Yahoo Pipe is an powerful mashup editor comes with an excellent graphical IDE (ppl who have worked on IVR script designing using some of the graphical IVR script generation tools will [...]