The Flexmonster team made a nice multidimensional data visualization, reporting and analysis tool for any BI solution. A few of most important features are:

• Display large amounts of information the friendly way
• Pivot DataGrid & Charts let you drill up/down your data
• Integrate with your existing BI tools for effective data analysis
• XMLA and MDX support for multidimensional data visualization
• Subtotal and aggregate complex numeric data
• Filter, sort and group data to find meaning that can power your toughest decisions
• Alternative to popular open source tools - JPivot, olap4j
• The one Pivot tool a CEO can use - yet so robust it can please the CEO
• Compatible with Microsoft OLAP and Mondrian

Online demo it’s available at http://www.flexmonster.com/…/grid_chart_config.html. Also for this component has a very good documentation (I like this ).

Two of the main raison tobe of MiniBuilder are:

• provide a completely free and cross platform alternative for developing ActionScript projects.
• provide an editor with a small footprint that would eventually run on smaller computers like netbooks or even pocket-size devices.

Extending, changing (and even integrating MiniBuilder with other software) is easy: MiniBuilder is itself written in your favourite language, AS3!

This and some of it’s unique features and concepts will make it the IDE of choice for lots AS3 developers.

MiniBuilder will benefit from Adobe AIR’s ability to launch applications from the browser. Code samples, online tutorials, code libraries will be able to provide a direct launch link for their projects: “launch this project in MiniBuilder” (This feature will be available in the first beta version.)

Because ActionScript virtual machine is now an open source project, we expect lots of solutions to adopt it for embedding. From the start, MiniBuilder targets several implementations of Tamarin AVM:

• Flash Player
• Adobe AIR
• Tamarin AVM shell
• Mod ActionScript (experimental web server module running ActionScript)

MiniBuilder will be available in 2 versions:

• Desktop MiniBuilder
• Web MiniBuilder

More about MiniBuilder and download information you can read at: http://code.google.com/p/minibuilder/.

http://twitter.com/ddura/adobeevangelists
http://twitter.com/rlux/adobe-community
http://twitter.com/rlux/adobe-staff
http://twitter.com/lkilpatrick/adobe-ug-people/members
http://twitter.com/fx_r/authors

If you know other interesting lists regarding Flex, Flash, Adobe, etc. please add them to the comments bellow and I’ll add them to the article the lists that worth. Thank you.

The error is triggered only in debugging. No trace of it in the normal run. But if you need to debug and get this error it will pause the debug session and even after lots of resume pressed you’ll won’t get over it because is a cyclic error.

undefined
	at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
	at mx.effects::Effect/effectStartHandler()
	[C:\autobuild\3.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\effects\Effect.as:1310]
	at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
	at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
	at mx.effects::EffectInstance/play()
	[C:\autobuild\3.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\effects\EffectInstance.as:580]
	at mx.effects.effectClasses::CompositeEffectInstance/play()
	[C:\autobuild\3.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\effects\effectClasses\CompositeEffectInstance.as:172]
	at mx.effects.effectClasses::SequenceInstance/play()
	[C:\autobuild\3.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\effects\effectClasses\SequenceInstance.as:150]
	at mx.effects::EffectInstance/finishRepeat()
	[C:\autobuild\3.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\effects\EffectInstance.as:685]
	at mx.effects.effectClasses::SequenceInstance/play()
	[C:\autobuild\3.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\effects\effectClasses\SequenceInstance.as:156]
	at mx.effects::EffectInstance/finishRepeat()
	[C:\autobuild\3.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\effects\EffectInstance.as:685]
	at mx.effects.effectClasses::SequenceInstance/play()
	[C:\autobuild\3.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\effects\effectClasses\SequenceInstance.as:156]
	at mx.effects::EffectInstance/finishRepeat()
	[C:\autobuild\3.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\effects\EffectInstance.as:685]
	at mx.effects.effectClasses::SequenceInstance/play()
	[C:\autobuild\3.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\effects\effectClasses\SequenceInstance.as:156]
	at mx.effects::EffectInstance/finishRepeat()
	[C:\autobuild\3.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\effects\EffectInstance.as:685]
	at mx.effects.effectClasses::SequenceInstance/play()
	[C:\autobuild\3.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\effects\effectClasses\SequenceInstance.as:156]
	at mx.effects::EffectInstance/finishRepeat()
	[C:\autobuild\3.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\effects\EffectInstance.as:685]
	at mx.effects.effectClasses::SequenceInstance/play()
	[C:\autobuild\3.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\effects\effectClasses\SequenceInstance.as:156]
	at mx.effects::EffectInstance/finishRepeat()
	[C:\autobuild\3.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\effects\EffectInstance.as:685]
	at mx.effects.effectClasses::SequenceInstance/play()
	[C:\autobuild\3.x\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\effects\effectClasses\SequenceInstance.as:156]

The error is triggered by Sequence and the code looks like this…

<mx:Sequence id="movement" repeatCount="0" startDelay="{delay}">
    <mx:Move id="movementUp" target="{this}" duration="{interval}" 
        yTo="0" />
    <mx:Move id="movementDown" target="{this}" duration="{interval}" 
        yTo="{_startYPos}" />
</mx:Sequence>

What’s the problem? After trying different things on the code I noticed that instead of setting the target property of the Sequence I did set up the target of each Move item. So by removing the target from each Move and adding one to Sequence may fix the problem.

Another thing to check is that the sequence is called only once for the target object. If the same effect is called twice or more on the same object and the previous effect did not finished their job a conflict appears. That means that starting the effect on a event that triggers more than once (ex: updateComplete, addedToStage) will end in this error also. Try use creationComplete event instead.

It is important to tell you that the Flex SDK I used to test this are 3.4 and 3.5 from Adobe Nightly Builds.

Hope this helps you.

A public beta of the browser-based runtime is expected to be available for Windows Mobile, Palm webOS and desktop operating systems including Windows, Macintosh and Linux later this year. Public betas for Google Android and Symbian OS are expected to be available in early 2010. In addition, Adobe and RIM announced a joint collaboration to bring Flash Player to Blackberry smartphones, and Google joined close to 50 other industry players in the Open Screen Project initiative.

The browser-based runtime leverages the power of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) for accelerated video and graphics while conserving battery life and minimizing resource utilization.

Led by Adobe, the Open Screen Project includes close to 50 industry leaders working together to provide a consistent runtime environment across mobile phones, desktops and other consumer electronic devices. The initiative addresses the challenges of Web browsing and standalone applications on a broad range of devices, and removes the barriers to publishing content and applications seamlessly across screens.

Read more…
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200910/100509AFPforMobileDevicesandPCs.html
http://www.openscreenproject.org/
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200910/100509RIMjoinsOSP.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/teaming-up-with-adobe-and-open-screen.html

Squiggly is a spell checking engine for Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe AIR®. The Squiggly library allows you to easily add spell checking functionality in any Flex 3 based text control.

Worth mentioning that the distribution package consists of a utility for building your own spelling dictionaries, a sample English dictionary, an Action Script package that checks individual words for spelling accuracy and sample code that demonstrates it (demo available here).

The included user interface class requires the Flex SDK but the core spell checking engine can be used in Flash applications without the Flex framework.

Adobe’s new spell checking component comes a long time after Grant Skinner has already released a check spelling commercial component called Spelling Plus Library. This may end the lifeline of Grant Skinner SPL product but keeping in mind that Adobe doesn’t offer a service but only a component the SPL may live by being sold as a service offering access to updated language dictionaries if Grant will wish to do it. You can read more here. Any way I think Adobe did a great thing offering this tool for free because, in my opinion, the prices of Grant’s SPL are a bit to high.

Having this said I wish both SPL and Squiggly a long live.

You can read more going to adobedeaddrop.com. The terms and conditions of the Adobe Dead Drop game for MAX LA 2009 can be read here.

Magda from Adobe Romania has already posted a call for papers. If you want to be a speaker just go ahead and send your topic to Adobe (romania-at-adobe.com). For more details see Magda’s post on myadobe.ro (it is in Romanian).

Registration can be done on http://flexcampiasi.eventbrite.com/ or on http://myadobe.ro/2009/09/24/am-deschis-inscrierile-pentru-flex-camp-iasi/.

So, what you do if you have a list that has, let say, 100 items and you make a selection of 4 elements, as an user it’s hard to know what are the selected items, also if you come back to this and you want to add one more element to you selection?

Multiple selection list component give the user a visual status of the actual selection. On the left side are available items and on the right selected items.

Accesibility

1. Double click on in item to move it from a list to on other.
2. Select one or more elements from a list and click on the arrow between the list in order to move all selected items from one list to other one,
3. Move all elements from a list to other using double arrow icons.
4. Click on switch button (middle one) in order to switch items from a list to other.

How to use it

All you need to do it’s to tell the component what are all available items and what are the selected items.

private var myComp: MultiSelectList = new MultiSelectList();
private var _availableItems: ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection();
private var _selectedItems: ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection();
private var _resultItems: ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection();
 
//set component data
myComp.availableItems = _availableItems;
myComp.selectedItems = _selectedItems;
 
//get selected items
_resultItems = myComp.selectedItems;

As you will see in this working example, I use this component to update a ComboBox according to selection from multiple selection list component.

Enjoy!

The agenda is bellow…

08:00 - 08:50
Registration

09:00 - 11:00
First Session

• A peek inside the Social Networks in Romania - Adina Madularea (Daedalus Millward Brown)
• Contradictions in Social Media - Bob Rapp (Vodafone Group)
• An user experience story - Michael Köster (Microsoft) &Todi Pruteanu (Microsoft Romania)
• Today’s hidden dangers - Stefan Tanase (Kaspersky Lab)

11:00 - 11:30
Break

11:30 - 13:00
Second Session

• Room raiders 24/7: How your social persona lets everyone peek into your personal life - Bogdana Butnar, MRM Worldwide
• Future of Social Media - Sharifah Amira (Frost & Sullivan)
• Internet on your mobile. Beyond news and games - Stephanie Jackson (Vodafone)
• Collaborative Web - Mihai Pricope (Adobe Romania)
• Brands and bloggers - Radu Ionescu (Kinecto)

13:00 - 14:00
Break

14:00 - 15:30
Third Session

• Workshop 1 - Web Design
• Workshop 2 - Blogging – Part 1
• Workshop 3 - Mobile

15:30 – 16:00
Break

16:00 - 18:00
Fourth Session

• Workshop 1 - Web Development
• Workshop 2 - Blogging – Part 2
• Workshop 3 - Microblogging

We will write another article with the ideas drawn from the whole Webstock 2009 conference.

You can visit also the Webstock 2009 site and watch the live stream at http://www.webstock.ro.