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This is the blog of Jesse Warden, a Rich Internet Application Architect. He specializes in using Flex and Flash to create Rich Internet Applications.

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Flex 2 WebService & Cairngorm 2 Example

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

*** Update: 8.14.2007: The code in this article is out of date. Please refer to the new entry instead. ***
This example utilizes Amazon’s search webservice in the Cairngorm 2 application framework. You can go to Amazon.com and register for a free API key. Once you do, you just plug into this […]

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Flash & ARP Widget: DDO Server Status

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

Preface
Beautiful weekend here in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Sunny, no clouds, and up to I believe 80 degrees (26 Celsius) this weekend. Naturally, I spent most of it indoors. Part of Friday evening and Sunday I spent creating this application just to see if I could do it. It pings the gaming servers […]

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DrawingPad for Flex 2

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

A simple drawing pad for Flex 2, beta 2. Someone had asked on the Flexcoders list if there was a drawing component in Flex 2. This has been done countless times in Flash, so I wanted to use this as a reason to learn about some of the chagnes to UIComponent. There […]

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One of the new features of Flex 2 is states. It allows you to declaratively define the state of a component. Flash Developers used to do this by using different frames for MovieClips in Flash. Since the timeline paradigm doesn’t exist in Flex, you had to use copious amounts of Effect ActionScript […]

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Flex Enterprise Services: Airplane Chat

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

A few weeks ago, I opened the Chat example that comes with Flex Enterprise Services 2 to see how it works. Utilizing Flash Media Server (formerly known as Flash Communication Server) Remote Shared Objects requires low-level ActionScript. Since Flex is all about concise, high-level tags, I was curious how easy they had made […]

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