Adobe Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
While at MAX, I learned about the 'Tour de Flex' website. I'm excited about the resources that are offered at Flex.org, but the Tour de Flex tool is especially focused and useful. First, the site allows you to download the Tour de Flex AIR app. This is a tool similar to the Adobe Flex 3 Component Explorer . The Tour de Flex version is expanded, with 200 component...
IPSOJobs WorldWide: Job postings (Free subscription) | yesterday
Software Flex Developer - London - 3 months (to go perm) A Software Flex Developer is required to be part of something new! The Flex Developer will work on an application which is being transferred from the internet to the desktop using Flex and AIR. As the Flex Developer you will work on this chnage over using Flex and AIR in order to assist in the build of...
Noupe (Free subscription) | yesterday
One important goal of flex components, is to help the community see how you can merge the best of what flex gives you (productivity, development process, consistent component model) with the best of what people have been doing in flash for years (rich, highly interactive, fluid, etc). Adobe Flex is the tool of choice for many [...]
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Filed under: Ethanol , Flex-Fuel , Volvo , Asia Here in the US, millions of flex-fuel vehicles were sold before significant numbers of E85 stations began to open. Over in Thailand there were already two E85 stations before the first car was even sold. Volvo has launched two E85 capable flex-fuel models in the south-east Asian country. The S80 sedan is assembled locally from a...
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
OOPS: Government flex-fuel mandates increased fuel consumption. “Problem was, replacement flex-fuel vehicles had larger engines in their predecessors and often ran on gasoline, usually due to difficulty obtaining E85.”
The Big Lead (Free subscription) | yesterday
Flex Scheduling: “It is a shame ESPN doesn’t have flexible scheduling, but the NFL understandably believes moving games from Sunday to Monday, and vice versa, would be too disruptive. So ESPN is stuck with Jacksonville-Houston (ugh!) on Monday and Cleveland-Philadelphia on Dec. 15. Its other remaining games — Tampa Bay-Carolina Dec. 8 and Green Bay-Chicago [...]
Christophe Coenraets (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you are not attending MAX Europe in Milan this week, I will present my “Model Driven Development using Flex Builder 4 and LCDS Next” session at FlexCamp Boston on December 12th as well. Hope to see you there!
Design Bump - Popular news (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Essential Flex resources - Flex components, Flex Skins & Themes, Online Flex Apps and Flex Tutorials.
Christophe Coenraets (Free subscription) | yesterday
We just added a new session (not in the printed agenda) to talk about a brand new feature the LCDS and Flex Builder teams are working on… Session details: “Model Driven Development using Flex Builder 4 and LCDS Next”. Wednesday, December 3, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, Yellow 2 In this session we take a Sneak Peek at [...]
Tim Anderson's ITWriting (Free subscription) | yesterday
Not long ago I looked at an early preview of Ensemble’s Tofino, an extension to Visual Studio for developing Flex applications that target the Adobe Flash runtime. It was disappointing, though I’ve been assured that an improved build is in preparation. Ensemble had better be quick: I’ve just been informed of an alternative called Amethyst, [...]
The Armchair Intelligentsia Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The federal government has invested billions of dollars over the past 16 years, building a fleet of 112,000 alternative-fuel vehicles to serve as a model for a national movement away from fossil fuels. But the costly effort to put more workers into vehicles powered by ethanol and other fuel alternatives has been fraught with problems, many of them caused by buying vehicles before fuel stations were...
The Dangerous Economist (Free subscription) | yesterday
But first, a funny cartoon by Steve Breen of the San Diego Union-Tribune . The cartoon has nothing to do with the topic. It comes from this Washington Post article Problems Plague U.S. Flex-Fuel Fleet . It seems the idea was to have government vehicles use alternative fuels to save gas. But the opposite has happened. Here are the key exerpts: "But the costly effort to put more workers into vehicles...
trucks world news (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lack of ethanol pumps, vehicles' larger engines sidetrack pricey efforts to promote less use of gas Washington,DC,USA - The Washington Post, by Kimberly Kindy & Dan Keating /The Detroit News -November 28, 2008: -- The federal government has invested billions of dollars over the past 16 years, building a fleet of 112,000 alternative-fuel vehicles to serve as a model for a national movement away from...
Strategic Developer (Free subscription) | yesterday
... of 2009) we will launch a commercial Professional Edition - which will have a drag-and-drop Flex/AIR visual design environment, IntelliSense and graphical debugging tools all seamlessly integrated into Visual Studio.
Hybrid Car Blog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Filed under: Ethanol, Flex-Fuel, Toyota, USA Toyota has announced updated pricing information for the 2009 Tundra full-size truck, along with a few new options that weren’t available before. Chief among these new features is flex-fuel capability on the largest, most powerful 5.7L engine option. Toyota has been planning on adding this capability since the new Tundra was introduced, which...
