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Flex overview

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Flex is a free, open source framework for building highly interactive, expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems. It provides a modern, standards-based language and programming model that supports common design patterns. MXML, a declarative XML-based language, is used to describe UI layout and behaviors, and ActionScript3, a powerful object-oriented programming language, is used to create client logic. Flex also includes a rich component library with more than 100 proven, extensible UI components for creating rich Internet applications (RIAs), as well as an interactive Flex application debugger.

RIAs created with Flex can run in the browser using Adobe Flash Player software or on the desktop on Adobe AIR, the cross-operating system runtime. This enables Flex applications to run consistently across all major browsers and on the desktop. And using AIR, Flex applications can now access local data and system resources on the desktop. Both Flash Player and Adobe AIR are available as a free download on Adobe.com.

You can accelerate application development with Adobe Flex Builder 3 software, a highly productive, Eclipse based development environment, and Adobe Live Cycle Data Services software, a set of advanced data services that can be used in Flex development. Both of these products are available for purchase.

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Creating a First Visit Web Page Pop Up Window

Monday, July 14th, 2008

It’s a proven fact that the use of popup windows is an effective marketing technique that produces great results. However, they can be very irritating to your visitors. How can you use this powerful marketing technique without offending your visitors? Compromise and use a popup window that only displays the first time your visitor enters your site.

Place the following code within the <BODY> of your web page.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=”JavaScript”>
<!–
function GetCookie(name) {
var arg=name+”=”;
var alen=arg.length;
var clen=document.cookie.length;
var i=0;
while (i<clen) {
var j=i+alen;
if (document.cookie.substring(i,j)==arg)
return “here”;
i=document.cookie.indexOf(” “,i)+1;
if (i==0) break;
}
return null;
}
var visit=GetCookie(”COOKIE1″);
if (visit==null){
var expire=new Date();
window.name = “thiswin”;
newwin=open(”yourpage.htm”, “dispwin”,
“width=450,height=455,scrollbars=yes,
menubar=no”);
expire=new Date(expire.getTime()+7776000000);
document.cookie=”COOKIE1=here; expires=”+expire;
}
// –>
</SCRIPT>

Change the text where indicated in red.

The “yourpage.htm” text specifies the popup window url.

Change the height and width to your preferred window size.

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Invite Guest Bloggers

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Asking a well known personality in your niche to contribute a short blog on their subject of expertise is a great way to grow the value and reach of your blog. You not only flatter the person by acknowedging their celebrity, you nearly guarantee yourself a link or at least an association with a brand that can earn you readers. Just be sure that you really are getting a quality post from someone that’s as close to universally popular and admired as possible (unless you want to start playing the drama linkbait game, which I personally abhor). If you’re already somewhat popular, it can often be valuable to look outside your space and bring in guest authors who have a very unique angle or subject matter to help spice up your focus. One note about guest bloggers - make sure they agree to have their work edited by you before it’s posted. A disagreement on this subject after the fact can have negative ramifications.
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