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Volunteers are welcome to freshen the donated content
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Igor Costa <igorcosta@gmail.com> wrote:


That's good to know.

Overall articles will be outdated for Flex 4.12, isn't?


Best Regards


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Igor Costa
www.igorcosta.com
www.igorcosta.org


On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Alex Harui <aharui@adobe.com> wrote:

> Good question.
>
> Any screenshots you take will be of the Adobe version.  I think you could
> argue that one or two screenshots for a presentation is nominative fair u=
se.
>
> Once donated, we will have to generate a new icon for Tour De Flex for
> Apache Flex and probably change up the colors and layout a bit.
>
> -Alex
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Christofer Dutz [christofer.dutz@c-ware.de]
> Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2014 2:16 AM
> To: dev@flex.apache.org
> Subject: AW: Next Donation from Adobe
>
> Am I allowed to make some screenshots from TourDeFlex then?
> I wanted to add some screenshots to my ApacheCon presentation....
>
>
> ________________________________________
> Von: Franck Wolff <frawolff@gmail.com>
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 3. April 2014 11:10
> An: dev@flex.apache.org
> Betreff: Re: Next Donation from Adobe
>
> Tour de Flex was much more than style explorer: it was also a way for
> third-party players (advanced component providers, frameworks, server
> solutions, etc.) to show their products with their main features.
>
> It would be great to have an updated Tour de Flex with an opened
> architecture, allowing people to plug in dedicated demos.
>
> Franck.
> @graniteds
>
>
> 2014-04-03 7:14 GMT+02:00 Deepak MS <megharajdeepak@gmail.com>:
>
> > These were the explorers that I was referring to:
> > Original link:
> > http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/componentexplorer/explorer.html
> > Archived:
> >
> >
> http://web.archive.org/web/20120918204503/http://examples.adobe.com/flex3=
/componentexplorer/explorer.html
> >
> > Original link:
> >
> >
> http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex3StyleExplor=
er.html
> > Arhchived:
> >
> >
> http://web.archive.org/web/20120516031743/http://examples.adobe.com/flex3=
/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex3StyleExplorer.html
> >
> >
> > Those were of great help for me at the beginning when I started working
> on
> > flex and I'm sure it would be very helpful for beginners too, who are
> > looking out for both functionalities and the code together, for learnin=
g
> > and referring quickly.
> >
> > Ofcourse that was on MX and I'm not sure if that was updated for spark.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Alex Harui <aharui@adobe.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Is Tour De Flex different from the explorers?  I've never used any of
> > them
> > > since I already know the code.
> > >
> > > Is there a link to explorers on Adobe.com that you are interested in?
> > >
> > > -Alex
> > > ________________________________________
> > > From: Deepak MS [megharajdeepak@gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2014 11:42 PM
> > > To: dev@flex.apache.org
> > > Subject: Re: Next Donation from Adobe
> > >
> > > That's great!
> > > Very keen to know if it includes component explorer and style explore=
r.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Alex Harui <aharui@adobe.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi folks,
> > > >
> > > > Adobe legal and business folks have approved the donation of severa=
l
> > > > Flex-related items to Apache.  The donation paperwork is on its way
> to
> > > get
> > > > VP signature (yes there could be some delay or reversal there, but =
I
> > > don't
> > > > expect any), but I'm bringing this up now because we should start
> > > thinking
> > > > about how to handle the contents of the donation.
> > > >
> > > > In the donation is:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 1. Several Flex articles from the ADC web-site.
> > > > 2. An updated version of the FDB debugger that contains support for
> > > > ActionScript Workers
> > > > 3. The FlexPMD source code
> > > > 4. The Mobile Trader demo application
> > > > 5. The specification for the MXML language
> > > > 6. An XML merging utility source code from the Flex QA team.
> > > > 7. The Squiggly spell-checker source code
> > > > 8. The Tour De Flex application source code
> > > > 9. The source code for a prototype of a code coverage utility that =
I
> > > wrote.
> > > >
> > > > Links to the original Adobe content is at the end of this email.
>  When
> > > you
> > > > go to the Adobe links you see a complete web article, but when
> donated,
> > > > several things will be missing and several things will need adjusti=
ng
> > > > before hosting the content at Apache.
> > > >
> > > > A) None of the videos in the VideoTraining article are being donate=
d
> > > > because the videos are heavily branded by Adobe "watermarks".  Adob=
e
> > says
> > > > our version of the article can link to the Adobe videos, but Apache
> > does
> > > > not want us to host Adobe videos on Apache servers.  At some point =
in
> > > > time, I will try to get these videos posted on YouTube so we don't
> have
> > > to
> > > > worry about them being taken off of Adobe servers someday.  Adobe
> Legal
> > > > has ok'd posting the videos on YouTube, but I need to get some othe=
r
> > > > approvals before doing it.  We also need to get approval from Apach=
e
> to
> > > > link to the Adobe-hosted videos in the interim.  We have approval t=
o
> > link
> > > > to them when posted on YouTube.
> > > >
> > > > B) All of the devnet articles load Adobe CSS files.  Our version of
> > these
> > > > articles should not look exactly like the Adobe colors so we need t=
o
> > > > create our own CSS file and adjust the articles to load those CSS
> files
> > > > instead.  I am not the right person to do this work, so a volunteer
> is
> > > > needed.
> > > >
> > > > C) The Adobe icon and all head shots of authors are not being
> donated.
> > > > The Apache version of these articles should not link to the head
> shots
> > on
> > > > the Adobe servers.
> > > >
> > > > D) The articles have sidebars and footers that point to lots of oth=
er
> > > > Adobe content.  Those sidebars and footers should be
> removed/replaced.
> > > >
> > > > E) Not all of the Tour De Flex content is being donated.  Both TDF3
> and
> > > > TDF4 source code is in the donation, but articles written by
> non-Adobe
> > > > authors are not in the donation.  TDF will need to be adjusted to n=
ot
> > > > reference the missing articles.  The non-Adobe authors need to be
> > > > contacted to donate their article to Apache.
> > > >
> > > > F) Other videos and images used in examples are missing from TDF an=
d
> > > > devnet articles if they were of real people or third-party brands.
>  We
> > > > will need to generate replacements, or adjust the articles to work
> > > without
> > > > the missing videos and images.  We will have to be careful as the
> > > articles
> > > > may still point to the Adobe-hosted videos and images.
> > > >
> > > > G) Some articles point to zip files.  In the donation, the zip file=
s
> > are
> > > > expanded and the actual zip file is missing because we should be
> > checking
> > > > source and not zips into our repos.  Build scripts will be needed t=
o
> > > > create zips that go with the production articles.
> > > >
> > > > And then we need to decide where to still all of this source.  I
> guess
> > > > flex-utilities for most of it. I would probably create a branch of
> > > > flex-sdk for the FDB code.  The XML Merge code will go in the Blaze=
DS
> > > repo
> > > > with the rest of BlazeDS.  Where should be put all of the devnet ht=
ml
> > > > files until they are ready?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > -Alex
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Here are links to the ADC articles:
> > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining.html
> > > >
> > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/testdrive.html
> > > >
> > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/testdrivemobile.html
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/mobile-development-flex-flashbu=
il
> > > > der.html
> > > >
> > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex3and4_differences.htm=
l
> > > >
> > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/itemrenderers_pt1.html
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/employee-directory-android-flex=
.h
> > > > tml
> > > >
> > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/mobile-skinning-part1.htm=
l
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex-mobile-performance-checkli=
st
> > > > .html
> > > >
> > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flashbuilder_blazeds.html
> > > >
> > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/spark_layouts.html
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex-mobile-development-tips-tr=
ic
> > > > ks-pt4.html
> > > >
> > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex4_skinning.html
> > > >
> > > >
> > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex4_viewport_scrolling.html
> > > >
> > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex4_effects_pt1.html
> > > >
> > > > FlexPMD is currently on Open@Adobe here:
> > > >
> > > > http://sourceforge.net/adobe/flexpmd/home/Home/
> > > >
> > > > The Mobile Trader demo application is described here:
> > > >
> > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/samples/mobile-trader-application.html
> > > >
> > > > And here: http://coenraets.org/blog/2011/03/flex-on-the-ipad/
> > > >
> > > > The XML merge utility is a small set of files that should have been
> in
> > > the
> > > > BlazeDS donation
> > > >
> > > > Squiggly is described here:
> > > >
> > > > http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/squiggly/
> > > >
> > > > Tour De Flex is described here:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/tourdeflex.html
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>