Flex Component Kit and the latest Flash Player Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: January 16, 2008 | Read 2230 times | 2 comments It looks like the latest Flash Player (v9 r115) version is breaking all our Flex applications that are using components built with the Flex ... Read more >> MinimalComps from Keith Peters Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: January 7, 2008 | Read 1450 times | 0 comments Keith Peters has published a set of light-weight components to be used in Flex. Good stuff if you are doing prototypes or something that doe... Read more >> Happy new year! Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: January 7, 2008 | Read 1185 times | 1 comments Happy new year 2008! I finally decided to start blogging again after a looong break. A lot happened last year. Personally, last year I tr... Read more >> Flex and Flash developers still needed Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: September 20, 2007 | Read 1995 times | 2 comments We are still looking for Flex and Flash developers to work in our Helsinki office. Suitable candidate should have experience in object orien... Read more >> Flex developers needed Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: March 1, 2007 | Read 2873 times | 4 comments Beam Jive is looking for Flex developers. You should have a background in server-side development. Java or PHP experience is a must for a su... Read more >> Flash Platform expert needed Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: February 23, 2007 | Read 2665 times | 2 comments Beam Jive is looking for experienced Flash Platform experts. Suitable candidate should be familiar with ActionScript 2 and 3, and willing to... Read more >> Flashscene.org 32k competition Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: February 5, 2007 | Read 2248 times | 4 comments Not really my cup of coffee, but since I know some of these fellows, I thought it would be nice to post about this. Flashscene.org has organ... Read more >> Bruce Eckel on RIAs Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: January 31, 2007 | Read 2335 times | 1 comments Bruce Eckel, the author of numerous programming books and articles, has written a nice article about Java and Rich Internet Applications (RI... Read more >> SQLyog: A nice MySQL GUI Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: January 8, 2007 | Read 2207 times | 1 comments There are numerous front-ends for MySQL. One of the best ones is SQLyog from Webyog. They have a free version called SQLyog Community Editio... Read more >> I have redesigned your website Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: December 19, 2006 | Read 2010 times | 0 comments I get a lot of e-mail spam. Probably about thousand per day. Only a couple of them get through to me after filtering. Today I received a fun... Read more >> Flash based operating system? Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: December 19, 2006 | Read 2894 times | 9 comments Why not :) This has been on my mind for a couple of years, but now I am starting to feel like it will eventually happen. Adobe (and former M... Read more >> Flex cookbook beta Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: December 19, 2006 | Read 1521 times | 2 comments The Flex cookbook beta is now online. The cookbook is a community-driven online service that lets users to share their Flex code snippets, c... Read more >> Desktop revolution: Adobe Apollo Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: December 19, 2006 | Read 2300 times | 0 comments Adobe's new product, Apollo, is quickly gaining visibility in blogs and news. Apollo is a new way to build desktop applications that communi... Read more >> LiteCall: RPC for Flash Lite Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: December 11, 2006 | Read 2060 times | 2 comments I wrote this RPC library for Flash Lite 2.x a good while ago, but never posted it here. I am including the source code for both Flash and PH... Read more >> RIAForge Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: November 20, 2006 | Read 1603 times | 0 comments RIAForge is a repository for Open Source projects built on Adobe technology. The site looks very promising, but in my opinion still needs a ... Read more >> My baby girl Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: November 20, 2006 | Read 1912 times | 6 comments Our first baby was born last Thursday. She's so cute, see the image below: It's been the most amazing year/week in my life :) I wi... Read more >> AUG meeting on Thursday: Flash Lite Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: October 3, 2006 | Read 1422 times | 2 comments The next AUG meeting will be held at the Scandic Hotel Marski on 5th of October at 6pm. The subject is Flash Lite and speakers are Thomas Da... Read more >> Adobe Flex 2 is now shipping Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: June 28, 2006 | Read 1896 times | 2 comments Flex 2, the most advanced web application development software, is now for sale. The pricing is very reasonable: Flex Builder 2: $499 Fl... Read more >> Flash Lite 2.0 Player available Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: December 20, 2005 | Read 4974 times | 3 comments The new Flash Lite 2.0 Player is now available at Macromedia EU store. I did not find any information about the development tools, but I bet... Read more >> Web design inspiration: Web Creme Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: December 9, 2005 | Read 25793 times | 1 comments I wanted to post about this nice site called Web Creme. It is a very simple site that collects well designed web sites. Thanks to the Web... Read more >> Bye bye Macromedia - welcome Adobe Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: December 5, 2005 | Read 4010 times | 3 comments Well, the acquisition took place on Saturday. Macromedia is now owned by Adobe Systems. The Macromedia site is changing - now it says Adobe ... Read more >> About video and audio streaming in Flash Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: November 30, 2005 | Read 5249 times | 2 comments What is the deal with the RTMP protocol that is used in the Flash Media Server 2 (used to be Flash Communication Server)? Is it a protected ... Read more >> Mac theme for Flex Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: November 30, 2005 | Read 6939 times | 5 comments Alright, time to forget the celebration, here is a link to a Mac styled theme for Flex: http://dev.beamjive.com/demos/flex/mactheme. Ofri... Read more >> Beam Jive turns four Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: November 30, 2005 | Read 2736 times | 5 comments It is incredible how time flies. I started Beam Jive exactly four years ago and it seems like it was yesterday :) We have had good times ... Read more >> Funny Flash 8 animations by Nectarine Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: October 27, 2005 | Read 3448 times | 0 comments Mike Downey of Macromedia has posted some funny animations about Flash 8. The animations were designed by Nectarine. Flash Plugin 8 is requi... Read more >> How do you architect your Flex applications? Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: October 26, 2005 | Read 3762 times | 12 comments It would be interesting to hear what methods, frameworks and technologies other companies and engineers use when architecting Flex (1.5) app... Read more >> Flex 2.0 RemoteObject works only with Flex Enterprise Services? Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: October 24, 2005 | Read 28646 times | 8 comments Yes, the manual says that the Flex 2.0 RemoteObjects works only with the Flex Enterprise Services. The API docs prove that this is correct. ... Read more >> Kevin Lynch's Web 2.0 conference presentation Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: October 9, 2005 | Read 2782 times | 0 comments See the Kevin Lynch's (CTO, Macromedia) presentation on Web 2.0 and Flex 2.0 at the Web 2.0 conference. The video contains, again, some n... Read more >> More on Flash Player 8.5, Flex 2.0 and Flex Builder 2.0 Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: October 7, 2005 | Read 3279 times | 1 comments Mark Anders of Macromedia has posted some new information about the upcoming Flash Platform products. Visit Mark's weblog Cheers, Kai... Read more >> Flash Platform future is more promising than ever Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: October 6, 2005 | Read 2557 times | 5 comments Macromedia today announced the new Flex 2.0 product line and the Flash Player 8.5. The release of a new player may sound funny because the F... Read more >> Flash Media Server 2 beta out now Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: September 28, 2005 | Read 2529 times | 1 comments The Flash Media Server 2 public beta is now available for download. The server was formerly known as the Flash Communication Server (Flashco... Read more >> I'm the new MMUG manager in Finland Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: September 21, 2005 | Read 2656 times | 1 comments I have just started as the new Macromedia User Group (MMUG) manager in Finland. The first thing is to setup a new site for the group (wit... Read more >> Flagstone SWF utilities should be better known Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: September 15, 2005 | Read 3161 times | 4 comments The guys over at Flagstone have developed open source Java and C++ libraries that one can use to compile and transform SWF files. I have kno... Read more >> Flash 8 is smooth Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: September 13, 2005 | Read 3060 times | 0 comments I just downloaded and installed the new Flash 8 IDE. The first impression is good; everything works very smoothly! All the panels react much... Read more >> New site released Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: September 1, 2005 | Read 3313 times | 7 comments We are happy to release a new version of our site! This time we scaled down the site a little bit and made all sections look the same. W... Read more >> Do you speak Google? Author: Ofri Porat | Date: August 24, 2005 | Read 2658 times | 9 comments Google has launched a beta version of their new IM service. With the new Google Talk users can also make voice calls the same way it's done ... Read more >> Flash 8 experiment: Animated Orbit Fractals with Drop Shadow effect Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: August 11, 2005 | Read 4308 times | 10 comments Last night I decided to write some fun AS code since it was raining. Well, I ended up writing all sorts of animated fractals and testing the... Read more >> Flash 8 experiment: snow effects Author: Ofri Porat | Date: August 10, 2005 | Read 3184 times | 1 comments Just testing the new features of Flash 8. In this experiment I played with the blur filter and blending modes. You'll need the beta version ... Read more >> Flash Lite demo: TV Guide Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: August 9, 2005 | Read 3064 times | 1 comments This demo shows how intuitive interfaces can be built with Flash Lite. The application can be used to view the TV programs of the main Finni... Read more >> Cisco to buy Nokia? Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: August 8, 2005 | Read 2437 times | 0 comments British Sunday Business reports that Cisco is considering to buy Nokia. Since Nokia is one of the corner stones of the Finnish economy, I wo... Read more >> FlashDevelop - A free ActionScript editor Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: August 4, 2005 | Read 2997 times | 2 comments FlashDevelop is a free ActionScript 2.0 editor that can be customized to handle other languages as well. It supports the MTASC compiler, so ... Read more >> Zorn thougths Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: August 4, 2005 | Read 2584 times | 3 comments Like I have said many times before, Flex is an outstanding product, but the fact that it is an enterprise level product and it is relatively... Read more >> The best Flash projector software: mProjector Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: August 4, 2005 | Read 2713 times | 4 comments We created a document CD for a Finnish corporation a while ago and decided to use mProjector this time. It's really simple to use, one only ... Read more >> Macromedia Partner meeting yesterday: The biggest Flash release ever Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: August 3, 2005 | Read 3287 times | 2 comments I attended the Macromedia Partner meeting yesterday and the message was very clear: This will be the biggest Flash release ever. Now, be... Read more >> Flash Platform needs new terms Author: Kai Hannonen | Date: August 2, 2005 | Read 2639 times | 8 comments Many developers are beginning to believe in Flash as a platform. As an interface technology it has grown fast and moved to the right directi... Read more >>