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I just uploaded the shortest tutorial that I have ever done. Using the new data features in Flash Builder 4 I create a Twitter search application from scratch in less than 2 minutes. I have done this example before using Catalyst but this shows just how quickly you connect your applications to external data sources. The data services wizard now has an XML choice that makes parsing feed data a piece of cake. |
Lee
Awesome Feature.
Is it possible to use it in combination with AMF libraries like PyAMF or RubyAMF?
That is easy!
BTW, the CS5 branding looks really good, thanks for the preview!
Woah!
Hey Lee,
Nice one AGAIN! As always of course. I was also very excitted to see the
CS5 running on your computer. I really can’t wait for it to be released! I already made the order with my retailer in case when CS5 will be released.
thank you for your nice advice! Article
Basti, yes you can.
By default, you can use AMFPHP to connect to some PHP service, but i gase integration with blazeDS ( for java ) or other things ( like Python or Ruby ) should be easy and quick ( i hope so, because in flex 3 it was real pain ).
Nice tut and nice idons for the CS5
Nice Lee it is really good and helpful
Is it works like that with ASP.NET ?
Cool! that´s just awesome, you should host a competition to see if someone could do it in less than 1 minute! lol
Great, it awesome.Thanks Lee.
great, amazing.. less than 2”
I cant beat that!
Fantastic video!! Viva Flex.
Very cool man, thanks!
Thanks again Lee!
Thanks Lee you’re the candle that iluminates the dark room of ignorance I’ll try it by myself preety easy greetings from Ecuador.
CS5 icons are awfull !
CS3 icons were ugly, CS4 were awafull … CS5 are even worst !
that is impressive! tutorial and timer
i love the timer 
As always, thanks Lee!
I have a quetion for you Lee… I’ve tried to get an answer elsewhere but nobody knows s… Please consider answer this.
I’ve just upgrade my computer to a little monster:) and I’ve installed windows7 64 bit… I was expecting flash player to run much better then on my old machine but I was suprised to notice that the flash player is chopy and the rendering is horrible in IE or FF… in normal screen mode… in full screen mode is super smooth and clean.
What is happening… anybody has any idea why this is happening… is this some strategy from microsoft to ruin flash reputation?
Oh and silverlight is running perfect! Grrrrrr…
Man I gotta get my hands on CS5. Where is it at?
hi to All i need help is it possible to read on socket through flash. is it any flash API that will do this.
@TIbi
my Laptop is hp pavilion dv6 2150 running windows 7 64bit. All Adobe products works fine and Flash player is running perfectly, it is a little slow at launch in debug mode but works fine.
@abo bakar
yes there is built-in flash API for socket reading and luckly Lee already made a tutorial about that topic just go to the tutorials list is gotoandlearn.com or just click on the link above in the top bar and you will find all Lee’s wonderful tutorials
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Recommendation regarding Apple / Flash issue.
Communication and respect are essential to solving the problem. Send a diplomat. Seriously, have about a dozen guys dressed nicely go sit in their HQ’s lobby until you get a meeting. And not just anyone, send the CEO. Send developers. Just be humble until you have a good discussion. Go from there.
Why doesn’t adobe start using html5, an open standard? It reminds me of Aol not willing to change when broadband access started creeping in, everyone at Aol was stuck saying dialup is the only way users will access the internet, not willing to change when all signs pointed to innovation. Adobe needs to stop fearing the future and embrace it. You build great authoring tools, I’m sure you can build great html5 ide instead of continuing to fight with open standards.
Let’s try an analogy, consider a bank, Bank of Adobe, starts issuing currency (flash platform) from their bank. Along comes another bank, Bank of Microsoft, that want to start issuing their own currency (Silverlight). And then there’s also the Bank of Sun issuing their own currency (Java). And so on and so forth. The economy will be flooded with everyone issuing their own proprietary version of applications that do the same thing. Wouldn’t it make more sense if the community as a whole (ie federal reserve) collaborate and issue one common currency (html5). That is the true open network, not supporting the growing number of platforms companies come up with, there will be no end to it and soon the web won’t work with all the glut in platforms. It’s already starting to get crazy, some sites won’t work without java, or silverlight, or flash, or.. etc etc..
Why not port the Adobe Creative Suite to Linux? That, would be a slap in the face to Apple, without hurting the OSX users. I have a few designer friends fed up with Windows and the cost of hardware for OSX, that would dump it in a heartbeat for Ubuntu if not for Photoshop and Illustrator.
Great tut, as always!
btw: I like the CS Icons in your dock
looks impressive, until one realizes that this invariably wasn’t the first try at doing the creation, plus its from a developer with how many years (and years, and years) of intensive full time use in the langage.
The broader struggle that we have is that that “productivity” can be measured in two very basic ways: the speed/efficiency of the developer of the software, or the speed/efficiency of the end-user. While we obviously would love to always maximize both, the reality is that this isn’t going to happen. So even if kudos are deserved for making a good developer’s tool, what’s been the change (improvement) in the performance metric(s) for the customer experience? Hate to say it, but templating can often bad habits & bloaty apps, which slows the customer’s UI quality.
Wow…
I’m struck by the easiness..
but when I tried applying it in a simple app that uses my API.. I was stuck with something unsolved.
My API returns (name, city, phone1, phone2, phone3, phone4)
I used dataGrid and it worked flawlessly only by showing 6 columns..
What I wanted, is to have the phone numbers gathered in one dataField for each row, I don’t want to have a separate column for every phone.
Any suggestions?
Hey dude, get Adobe to make their own phone OS! An all-flash phone would be so shiny. Compete, don’t complain!
Hey Lee – not trying to self promote here or anything, but I wrote a post on my blog you might like to read – I think a lot of developers feel this way!
http://homeschoolspanishonline.com/dailyblog/109-i-stand-with-adobe-and-so-should-you
Keep up the good fight and thanks a ton for all the great tutorials.