Take the PIA out of load testing AMF services

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Testing service APIs is a big pain. More so when you are using a format that isn’t widely supported by testing tools. Load testing AMF services…ugh. Recently I was tasked with finding a way to load test some AMF services built using PHP. In the past I had used jMeter for load testing. So, that [...]

Mobile Flex: View Data

From the previous post you should know how to navigate from 1 view to the next using the ViewNavigator.  Now, you want some data in that view right? No problem, this is where the View object’s ‘data‘ property comes into play. Setting the data property is accomplished by passing the data object, in addition to [...]

Mobile Flex: ViewNavigator Basics

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Flex 4.5 provides some pretty slick updates and enhancements, the least of which is the of Mobile components and the ability to slam out some pretty nice mobile apps easily. The first thing I’d like to talk about is a new concept, the ViewNavigator. The ViewNavigator provides some pretty intense functionality such as view management. What [...]

Adobe Camp: 1 Day, 3 Camps: 5280 Reasons to Use the Flash Platform

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If you haven’t heard already, the first Rocky Mountain Adobe Camp is open for registration. The first ever, one of a kind, Rocky Mountain Adobe Camp is right here in Denver on June 22, 2009. Digital professionals at all experience levels are invited to this one-day event to participate in in-depth sessions, and unique hands-on [...]

Adobe AIR – Issues with Command Line Arguments

After working on a little automation tool for video encoding process we ran into an interesting issue with AIR applications and command line arguments. Here is the scenario: Encoding process ends. The encoding process passes a file path to the waiting AIR application via command line. If the AIR app is not running, it starts [...]