Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

Category: Flex

  • Spoon in 2 Sentences

    SpoonSpoon is a fork of the Adobe Flex SDK. Goals are to capitalize on community submissions, provide leadership around the process, and ensure feature parity as new Adobe Flex SDK’s are released.

    Learn more about Spoon.

  • Corona Game Example: Balloon Pop

    AIR for Android ActionScript Charting ExampleIntroductionWhat

    Here’s a simple, unfinished, Corona game. It shows how to:

    • use a sprite sheet for animation
    • use tweening to move things
    • play audio
    • handle touch events

    Why

    As a Flex and Flash Architect, you’re probably wondering why I’m even bothering with Lua, specifically Corona.  A few reasons.

    (more…)

  • Basic Charting Drawing Routines for Flash & Flex Mobile Development

    AIR for Android ActionScript Charting ExampleIntroduction

    A friend asked about the potential to develop a set of ActionScript charts that looked good and would run on Mobile, specifically Android phones and iPhone. Apparently a client was asking, and he wanted to know the feasibility for re-use. We discussed the challenges with the existing Flex charts, specifically their lack of Flex 4 skinning abilities, but more importantly their lack of performance scalability.

    (more…)

  • State of the Flash & Flex Market for 2010

    Sorry so late, folks, I usually do this in March or April.  This year was really strange, so I waited hoping for some context that never came.  Much is the same as last year.

    Introduction

    The following is a broad coverage of the state of the Flash & Flex market for both W2 and 1099 (employee and freelance) with some W9 data (corp to corp, consulting, etc).   (more…)