Monthly Archive for November, 2006

Flex / Apollo Application Update

Published on November 26, 2006 in Apollo. 1 Comment

I’m still learning Flex and Actionscript 3, and one of my goals of building the application that I’m working on is to keep it simple, and not let too many difficult tasks (that I may come back to) slow me down, or make me lose focus or motivation. On personal projects, I find if development slows down to much, I lose momentum and things tend to stop.

On that note, in my last post I dicussed the integrating the widget I was working on in to this project. Although I plan to further develop my widget, and possibly integrate it with the current project, I’ve decided to can the idea for the time being.

So as I continue development on the project, I find areas that I wish to work on to improve the user experiance. Two things to note in the latest screen below, are 1) Visual indication on the grid that a day has changed. and 2) Button labels to indicate what each button represents.

Intranet Screen

Adobe Kuler RIA

Published on November 17, 2006 in Adobe and RIA. 0 Comments

A new Rich internet application available at http://kuler.adobe.com allows you to re-discover color. It allows you to view color schemes submitted by people around the world, as well as create your own colors from scratch or colors based on the different color rules.

For those who are not able to view the application due to heavy traffic, John Nack has posted a screen shot of the application on his blog. http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/

Cheers
Gareth.

Flex ing for Apollo

Published on November 15, 2006 in Apollo and Flex. 0 Comments

Apollo has inspired me to spend some of my spare time to work on a Internal Flex 2 project I have been meaning to get back to.

In the last couple of weeks I have been learning Cairngorm 2 and Flex 2 and piecing together my Flex 2 application, and along the way have been writing and designing for Apollo. Although Flex 2 applications should port directly to Apollo with little to no change, I have been designing the layout and workflow based on what I want from a desktop application.

Here is a screenshot of one of the screens from the time management part of the application I’m currently working on. The Flex widget from my previous post will also be included in the application, I will post a screen when this is operational.

Intranet Application