22. Januar 2008

Why is design of applications so important?

Modern management gurus tell you that design is one of the (and maybe THE) most important element in getting competitive advantage in today's world markets. This applies to your online services like your internet sales application ans your internal applications as well. Besides beeing very fast, flexible, easy to understand, your business applications MUST be well designed to get most out of your brand, culture and inner motivation. Especially for occasional users, it is important that you message on quality, actuality, reliability and coolness is linked to your brand as this will become the key factor for generating higher demand and brand recognition. But last but not least for your internal users, a good design increases efficiency and leads to higher acceptance and "felt" succuess. This is especially important in CRM applications where the benefit for the user is more on the long term. Thats why my we combine world-class design possibilities with world-class backend solutions. In Concrete this means we link Adobe Flex with 'webservices' loke mySAP CRM. We think, that using Flex as the "front-end" technology is currently the best solution for a design that doesn't compromise on functionality, maintainability or robusteness, portability and future readiness. Key benefits are:

  • Unlimited UI possibilities
  • As there will be no change to your current backend solution (Mainframe or .NET application you can develop and test our new front-end in parallel to your life systems.
  • Consolidate data from different sources (internal, external, new and legacy) into a single front-end user experience
  • Improve the "felt" coolness and acceptance of you existing applications without changing workflow and best practices.

16. Januar 2008

Abgeshene davon dass das Nokia N810 auch generell ein ziemlich geniales Stück Technologie ist, glänzt es vor allem durch die Unterstützung des Flash Player 9. Damit lassen sich nun all unsere AIR/Flex Applikationen wie zum Beispiel der ProjectAlizer mit im Hosensack rumtragen !¨

Keep-generated-actionscript

When you compile an mxml application, all your mxml is first converted to actionscript and then this actionscript is further compiled into a SWF. You can see this generated actionscript to learn the flex framework in depth using the flex compiler flag -keep-generated-actionscript. To set this flag in Flex Builder right click to open the project Properties, select Flex Compiler, and add -keep-generated-actionscript to the Additional compiler arguments. Now rebuild the project and you will see a new folder called ‘generated’ that appears and has all the generated code

14. Januar 2008

Flex :: CDATA-Block generieren

Um in einem *.mxml file einen leeren CodeBlock zu generieren genügt es einfach das Script Flag hinzuschreiben . Mit dem Klicken der Entertaste wird der ganze rest automatisch generiert: