Re: Painful story...

2012-06-15 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
If you really think about it, the post was tongue in cheek, meant to spur passion and action amongst exactly the group of people who are on this list, people who can save this and other poor fellows from a treacherous HTML existence. It was meant to be inspirational. Ariel Jakobovits arielj

Re: Actionscript 4 compatibility

2012-05-22 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
couldn't hurt, eh? On May 22, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Jeffry Houser wrote: > On 5/22/2012 1:15 PM, Ariel Jakobovits wrote: >> Why can't a new compiler for apache flex support a new version of as4 even >> if it is not official with adobe?? We have already talked about moving t

Re: Actionscript 4 compatibility

2012-05-22 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
Why can't a new compiler for apache flex support a new version of as4 even if it is not official with adobe?? We have already talked about moving to haxe. Ariel Jakobovits ajako...@adobe.com 650-350-0282 On May 22, 2012, at 10:10 AM, Jonathan Campos wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at

Re: bay area folks and flash

2012-04-18 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
ty". >>>> I noticed they did not mention Flex anymore. My take on all this is >> sell >>>> your Adobe shares while there stil over $30. >>>> Many developers ask how they will expalin to their managers that >> Flash >>>> is not dead. Adobe mumbled something about

bay area folks and flash

2012-04-17 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
anyone in the bay area attend the future of flash event last night at adobe? wondering what was said.   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0031 Cell: 650-823-8699

Re: Database support for Adobe AIR

2012-04-11 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
How about on a plugins page? On Apr 11, 2012, at 7:17 AM, Omar Gonzalez wrote: > I have an AS3 driver for MongoDB called MongoAS3 on GitHub. Also uses > Socket to implement mongo wire protocol and BSON. I'm just not sure it > belongs in the Flex SDK. Perhaps if I add some class mapping, but ev

Re: What does swcdepends do?

2012-04-09 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
From the doc linked to: "Compiler API can be added to answer the question of what additional RSLs are needed if a given RSL is loaded." Seems like the expectation was that additional compiler args to mxmlc might someday influence rsl dependencies. On Apr 9, 2012, at 6:11 AM, Darrell Loverin

Re: flex breakdown

2012-04-07 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
> My personal suggestion is to leave bashing/blaming at home. that was the intent of my post, to point out that people's egos were leading them to act in ways that they have previously warned people not to do. On Apr 6, 2012, at 1:45 AM, Martin Heidegger wrote: > On 06/04/2012 1

Re: flex breakdown

2012-04-06 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
> But don't ask the podling about its plans or intentions. > There are none. We will do what we have the time and energy to do. Plans > or intentions is just talk. Apache is about code. Have we already forgotten: Alex: Yes, we agree on that point. The Spark code was much faster than the MXM

flex breakdown

2012-04-05 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
Martin had a nice idea tonight on the hangout that i'd like to get group thoughts on because I'd like to build it into the website structure. His idea was to think of the Flex project as three parts: 1. Compiler 2. Core 3. Components Thoughts? Alternative breakdowns?   Ariel Jakobo

Re: Website

2012-04-04 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
Just a link, or can we integrate with JIRA and pull actively worked on bugs into a webpage?   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0031 Cell: 650-823-8699 - Original Message - From: Omar Gonzalez To: "flex-dev@incubator.apache.org"

Re: Website

2012-04-04 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
Sad truth is, we probably would not use flex for the website, right? On Apr 4, 2012, at 12:28 AM, Carlos Rovira wrote: > Looks pretty nice. I think a good designed website is part of the > attraction. If people enter Apache Flex website and we have something cool > people will want to see mor

Re: Website

2012-04-04 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
Yes, exactly. I would love to work on this. Im not a designer, but I can develop... how should I proceed? Start brainstorming features and designs and submit them for a vote? Build it piecemeal? On Apr 4, 2012, at 12:25 AM, Omar Gonzalez wrote: > Here's a link http://incubator.apache.org/cor

Re: Database support for Adobe AIR

2012-04-04 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
But that's ALL you said, and his response was: "Oh ok .. Thanks." And the conversation was over, and he seemingly left. Is that the way we want to treat people coming to hang out and chat about Flex? On Apr 4, 2012, at 12:19 AM, Omar Gonzalez wrote: > On Wednesday, Ap

Website

2012-04-04 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
I strongly believe one of the most successful open source toolkits I have witnessed evolve was jquery. I believe a critical element to its early success was its plugins page, containing third party contributed plugins that got developers and users excited about the possibilities of jquery. This

Re: Database support for Adobe AIR

2012-04-04 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
Well, then can we agree that your initial response to the poster that his comment did not belong on this list because we are not developing AIR was not a appropriate response? I'm not arguing for the sake of arguing. I'm making sure we don't send people packing because we don't understand their

Re: Database support for Adobe AIR

2012-04-03 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
Adobe ColdFusion®, and SAP using industry standards such as REST, SOAP, JSON, JMS, and AMF." Why would a set of components, visual or not, that allow one to connect to a database natively not be complementary to an open source application framework that allows you to easily build appli

Re: SFTP file transfer for large files using flex

2012-03-28 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
es not seem out of the scope of Flex.   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0031 Cell: 650-823-8699 From: JP Bader To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org; Ariel Jakobovits Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 12:04 PM Subject: Re

Re: SFTP file transfer for large files using flex

2012-03-28 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
would we consider developing ANEs to incorporate into Flex?   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0031 Cell: 650-823-8699 From: Marcus Fritze To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org; Marcus Fritze Sent: Wednesday, March 28

Re: ApacheFlex twitter account

2012-03-24 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
what about more than commit activity? what about ideas being passed around or even worked on? new wiki pages?   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0031 Cell: 650-823-8699 From: Jun Heider To: flex-dev

Re: [Proposal] Missing Spark Components : Alert, ColorPicker, HDividedGroup, VDividedGroup

2012-03-11 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
Seems one could break the color selector down into a couple of possibilities: 1. Discrete set of color values 2. A color range Either of these could be presented using a number of layouts, such as square, spiral, or line gradient, and a number of item renderers (maybe for discrete values only).

CSS

2012-03-03 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
time and perhaps even disable CSS styling at runtime? Ariel Jakobovits ajako...@adobe.com 650-350-0282 On Mar 3, 2012, at 3:12 AM, sébastien Paturel wrote: > Hi all, > Im new to the mailing list so sorry if i do mistakes :) > > I'm personnally very concerned about the ease of

Re: Desktop, mobile...tv/bluray

2012-02-29 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
Thanks for the support Martin but some compatriots to work with me is what I seek. Ariel Jakobovits ajako...@adobe.com 650-350-0282 On Feb 28, 2012, at 5:00 PM, Martin Heidegger wrote: > On 29/02/2012 09:36, Ariel Jakobovits wrote: >> We have a list of components for desktop, and an

Re: TLF and Flex (was Re: [jira] [Updated] (FLEX-23) Add support for newer versions of the Text Layout Framework to build scripts)

2012-02-28 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
developers use? What I am getting at is: what are we losing per se with adobe focusing on gaming? I can see that flash in the browser has challenges ahead, but AIR doesn't seem to. No? Ariel Jakobovits ajako...@adobe.com 650-350-0282 On Feb 28, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Alex Harui wrote: > &g

Desktop, mobile...tv/bluray

2012-02-28 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
We have a list of components for desktop, and an emerging list of components designed for mobile. Anyone working with even lower power tv and blueray devices that could benefit from even more lightweight components? Ariel Jakobovits ajako...@adobe.com 650-350-0282

Re: [IDEAS] Flex: New user interface design

2012-02-27 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
Two ideas that may be worthless, but: 1. can we determine ppi from the mouse cursor/arrow - is it a standard size that we can measure? 2. can we develop a preloader/component that can query the user to define 1 inch that we can then use for the app to be sized correctly?   Ariel Jakobovits

Re: Code formatting for patch submissions

2012-02-27 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
> 1. We wrap lines at 80 characters. Ugh, I hate that. Can we change that to more like 140 chars, or no wrapping?    Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0031 Cell: 650-823-8699 From: Gordon Smith To: "

Re: SEO for SWF Was: Flash Platform roadmap

2012-02-27 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
I think the aim would be to let the developer specify the search data in a properties file that gets compiled into the swf in a specified location with a specified format to avoid having to automatically convert the UI into meaningful search information.   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj

Re: Mailing list footers?

2012-02-26 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
Can we have a script running that can insert our footer for us as well as some dynamically generated output, like: - most active threads - current votes and lazies - newest threads On Feb 26, 2012, at 10:54 PM, jude wrote: > How about this: > > --- > Home - http://incubator.apache.org/flex/

SEO for SWF Was: Flash Platform roadmap

2012-02-25 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
to find information to help in indexing. For example, would knowing that a "3x5card" of useful information pertaining to SEO was located at byte 350 encourage search engines to reach there? Ariel Jakobovits ajako...@adobe.com 650-350-0282 On Feb 25, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Nicholas

Re: [IDEAS] Flex: New user interface design

2012-02-25 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
Like this idea. Ariel Jakobovits ajako...@adobe.com 650-350-0282 On Feb 24, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Daniel Reicher wrote: > Another approach may be to build themes that closely follow the UI/UX > guidelines of the native environments: Android ICS and iOS as initial > targets and adding c

Re: [IDEAS] Flex: New user interface design

2012-02-22 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
I'm in, but what do you mean?   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0031 Cell: 650-823-8699 From: Martin Heidegger To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 7:55 PM Subject: [IDEAS] Flex

Re: Adobe might think of open-sourcing the Design View if there is sufficient interest

2012-02-22 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
k controls, skins, build tools, IDEs, docs, educational materials, and designer/developer workflows would help strengthen our community and our productivity. Cortlandt, plus one for writing this post.   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 6

Re: Can Adobe kill Apache Flex

2012-02-21 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
lash Player and break every Flex app out there almost overnight.   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0031 Cell: 650-823-8699 From: Arturo Alvarado To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 12:37

Re: [gosh] On the sad tale of BNF and optional semicolons

2012-02-21 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
> 3.    Make semicolons mandatory. +1   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0031 Cell: 650-823-8699 From: David Arno To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 9:27 AM Subject: [gosh] On the

Re: Signed RSL from Apache

2012-02-20 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
Can we program the loader to pull the hash from a URL via ssl? Ariel Jakobovits ajako...@adobe.com 650-350-0282 On Feb 20, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > >> Also note that many large apps seem to have given up on RSLs because they've >> had to hack the

Re: [gosh] Goshhawk language choices and more [Was: Adobe / Apache / Spoon Flex Tour]

2012-02-19 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
g. David's frustration with Alex can be understood if he falls in this camp, which I do fall into.   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0031 Cell: 650-823-8699 From: David Arno To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: S

Re: Adobe / Apache / Spoon Flex Tour

2012-02-19 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
I like this mysterious person. :) I am starting to understand what he is pointing out as the shortcomings of mxml as implemented, I remember noticing these when first starting out but forgot as I focused on using what was available. And i agree about language choice, using the best language for

Re: Adobe / Apache / Spoon Flex Tour

2012-02-19 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
I like mxml, don't mind copying datagridcolumn in exchange for the readability, and thought fxg was a brilliant concept. Why _do_ we need to use java? Will other languages be as easy to integrate into IDEs? I sort of agree on the JavaScript thing. Outputting to an intermediate language seems l

Re: [RT] Design View in FlashBuilder

2012-02-18 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
Seconded   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0031 Cell: 650-823-8699 From: Benjamin Dobler To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 12:57 PM Subject: Re: [RT] Design View in FlashBuilder

Re: [RT] Design View in FlashBuilder

2012-02-17 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
> SWFBridge plugin architecture Yes!!! Been wanting this for s long in my IDE.   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0031 Cell: 650-823-8699 From: Alan Klement To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Fri

Re: Flex white paper on ADC

2012-02-15 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
velopment tools, and Flash Catalyst workflows > will be removed in updated 4.x versions of Flash Builder. Can we get these added to the Apache project as well? Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0031 Cell: 650-823-8699 _

Re: Adobe / Apache / Spoon Flex Tour

2012-02-15 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
> Why wouldn't you consider an alternate IDE (Such as IntelliJ or FDT) for long > term projects? I hear many people are happy using intellij, but when I tried, I found the project properties and configuration to be lacking compare to what I find in flash builder. On Feb 15, 2012, at 9:10 AM,

Re: Continuous integration for Flex (was: [RT] Recommendation Unit-Test System?)

2012-02-10 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
That's too bad because we are running into issues with file system path length limitations on Windows in our local Perforce workspace, even with our root in C:\.perforce.   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0031 Cell: 650-823

Re: [RT] Awesome FlexNext User Experience (was: Starting with the Whiteboard code)

2012-02-10 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
> An interactive tutorial Would it be a lot of work for us to set up a server that could compile Flex code and return a compiled swf for a beginner to see as they follow a lesson plan and learn to program Flex?   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0

Re: [RT] Awesome FlexNext User Experience (was: Starting with the Whiteboard code)

2012-02-10 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
> a showcase of applications this could be done as a fun community space of custom layouts, components, visualizations, skins, etc.   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0031 Cell: 650-823-8699 From: Greg Lafrance

Re: [RT] Documentation (split from: Awesome User Experience)

2012-02-10 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
Regarding asdocs, will we be able to reliably point users to the Flash Player AS3 documentation from our imported Flex doc site?   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0031 Cell: 650-823-8699 From: Martin Heidegger To

Re: [RT] Awesome FlexNext User Experience (was: Starting with the Whiteboard code)

2012-02-10 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
to the doc being viewed? > Adobe Community Help provided too many search options Agree.   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-690-2213 Fax: 650-641-0031 Cell: 650-823-8699 From: David Francis Buhler To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent

Re: Proposal: Compile-time-data injection

2012-02-07 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
> I'm not sure if the Wiki is the place for proposals. I think it makes sense. Nice way to get thoughts from emails aggregated, and even if an idea is not implemented, there is a place to come and find it and revive it someday.   Ariel Jakobovits Email: arielj...@yahoo.com Phone: 650-

Re: Starting with the Whiteboard Code

2012-02-07 Thread Ariel Jakobovits
> In > my company we keep using Flex 3, we didn't even switch to 4, cause it > isn't really worth the effort (IMHO). Oops. It was worth it. Ariel Jakobovits ajako...@adobe.com 650-350-0282 On Feb 7, 2012, at 5:23 AM, Piotr Kawiak wrote: > I totally agree with Alex. I