Flex Stuff by Gilles Guillemin

For the past few days, I’ve started – like many others – toying with the new kids on the block: namely Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst. As I’m going back to implementing the Tailgate Platform, I’m considering switching straight ahead to the new versions, even though they are not fully completed. But before jumping in the dark (and into a possible nightmare) I’m weighting my options. Among the potential issues / greatness is the Flash Catalyst / Flash Builder workflow.

It seems that this famous seamless workflow between designers and developers is the selling point for Adobe. But it’s not quite there yet, unfortunately. Continue Reading…

Degrafa is a fantastic tool and has become for the past few months a core component of all my developments at Tailgate Technologies. Still, some very powerful tools among Degrafa Framework seem to be a bit underused by most users (at least most bloggers). I’m thinking here of Advanced CSS with CSSSkin class. Or at least, there rather is a relative lack of examples and documentations on how to use it. You can still find on Degrafa’s website Ben Stuki’s example along with Juan Sanchez’ one, but when you try and watch the screencast tutorials you unfortunately end up hitting dead ends. One thing in particular took me a significant while to figure out: how to set elaborate gradients (for a background color for example), so I thought that sharing my discoveries (and improvements in a further post) might be useful to some of you.

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