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Snackr a RSS ticker flex AIR application tool

admin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:31:07 +0000

I got a new Flex AIR application tool. There are some very useful desktop applications that in time I find out. One of them in my opinion is Snackr, an AIR app built using Adobe Flex 3 and Adobe AIR 1.0.

Snackr is a RSS ticker which pulls random items from your favorite feeds and scrolls them across your computer desktop. It keeps you up to date in a very simple way.

Snackr does run on the Linux AIR alpha that Adobe just released, but it doesn’t look right (animations are glitchy, transparency doesn’t work). It should be functional, though. You’ll need to download the runtime manually for now. Click here to download it

To get more about it please check out the following Video.

FlexPMD code quality tool for adobe flex/AS3

admin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:55:59 +0000

FlexPMD tool helps us to improve code quality by auditing AS3/Flex source directory and detecting common bad practices code. like:

Unused code (functions, variables, constants, etc.)
Inefficient code (misuse of dynamic filters, heavy constructors, etc.)
Over-complex code (nested loops, too many conditionals, etc.)
Over-long code (classes, methods, etc.)
Incorrect use of the Flex component lifecycle (commitProperties, etc.)

A report is generated by it which describing the violations of a given rule set.

Eclipse plugin are not available yet. FlexPMD can currently be invoked from:

The command line
Maven
Ant

Adobe recently released (August 2009) the Flex implementation of PMD tool which extensively used at J2EE shops for code quality management.

You can get more information about it from here:

Flex mockup tool and Generate Flex code from mockups

admin — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:29:09 +0000

In this post I sharing a very useful information for All developers. but it is most information information for flex developer. Mocukups AKA Prototype or wireframes is the most important part in the development process of an application or website especially when developing Rich Internet Application. It gives a clear idea to the client/custore about how the site will function after complition of development process. It clears the states and transitions that needs to be used in an application. There are many tools avaialable to make mockups, In my post I am intorducing Balsamiq Mockups.

Balsamiq Mockup is a greate mockup tool. It is used to create mockups and wireframes to demonstrate the UI of an application. It is available in the web version as well as it also available in desktop version(built on AIR).

The main features of this tool is that it will easily convert your mockups to the a human readable format called BMML. If you can write some script you can convert the BMML format to your actual code. Now, the MidnightCoders along with Balsamiq enables you to convert Balsamiq mockups directly into your Flex apps.. This feature is really awesome…

This is not enough… there are few more things.. you can use this tool and create a mockups after that you can export that mockups when your mockup ready. You can downlaod exported file in zip file and the exported zip file contains MXML as well as Actionscript files along with server code implemented in PHP, VB.NET, C#, and Java. In the generated mockups the client-side code will have the same component as you have used in the mockups wheras the server-side code will have all datas from the controls in the mockup to the corresponding controls in the Flex application.

You can get more information about the generate flex code from mockups also you can take a look and Play around with Balsamiq mockups and find out more about it and MidnightCoders.

If you have any query and dobuts then feel free to disucss it with me.