Take the PIA out of load testing AMF services

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Testing service APIs is a big pain. More so when you are using a format that isn’t widely supported by testing tools. Load testing AMF services…ugh. Recently I was tasked with finding a way to load test some AMF services built using PHP. In the past I had used jMeter for load testing. So, that [...]

Mobile Flex: View Data

From the previous post you should know how to navigate from 1 view to the next using the ViewNavigator.  Now, you want some data in that view right? No problem, this is where the View object’s ‘data‘ property comes into play. Setting the data property is accomplished by passing the data object, in addition to [...]

Mobile Flex: ViewNavigator Basics

Push View into ViewNavigator

Flex 4.5 provides some pretty slick updates and enhancements, the least of which is the of Mobile components and the ability to slam out some pretty nice mobile apps easily. The first thing I’d like to talk about is a new concept, the ViewNavigator. The ViewNavigator provides some pretty intense functionality such as view management. What [...]

OSMF Custom Media Elements

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A good argument for using a framework is the ability to extend the built in capabilities of the framework. For example, there was a comment on the ‘Getting Sstarted with OSMF Plugins‘ post that asked about using embedded images in theWatermarkPlugin sample. Here are the steps that I took to get an embedded asset (instead [...]

Adobe Marketplace and the GTrack OSMF Plugin

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The Adobe Marketplace launched recently: Adobe Marketplace is the ultimate destination for all things Adobe — If you’ve created a technology or service that enhances or integrates with Adobe AIR, Photoshop, or the Open Source Media Framework, we invite you to register with the largest community of AIR users, Photoshop enthusiasts and OSMF developers in [...]