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Flex Test Drive in about an hour

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According to the Flex Test Drive site, you can “Build an application in an hour”.  While that is definitely true for a simple application, I would say it takes a little bit longer in real life.  I started working through the Test Drive demo using the videos, which probably run less than an hour.  Since I am familiar with Flex/Flash Builder, it was easy enough for me to have the video running in the background while I built the application.  There were several times that I had to switch back to the video to get a better understanding of what Continue reading Flex Test Drive in about an hour→

Dreamweaver Widgets

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Dreamweaver has a Widget Browser for checking out the free and paid Dreamweaver widgets in the Adobe Exchange.  The benefit of the Widget Browser is that you can easily see which ones you have installed and what is available without having to go to the website. When you decide on using one, then you can use the Widget Browser to configure the widget, so some success.  It all depends on the developer as to how useful the widget configuration is and customizing your selected widget.  I downloaded and installed the Aqua Button, the Weather Updater and the Twitter widgets. The Continue reading Dreamweaver Widgets→

The Demo Site

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I have created a Demo site using Dreamweaver.  I used a HTML5 template, because I figure I probably should learn some HTML5 while I am doing this. The first thing I had to do was setup a ftp user on my website and give the user access to the “demo” folder.  To make things simple, I also created a subdomain for the demo folder (http://demo.deanlogic.com).  Unfortunately, the Dreamweaver template is a little finicky and the path url to the image wasn’t correct on my first couple of attempts to drag and drop the image into the page.  Also, the css Continue reading The Demo Site→