Flex 4 Gumbo Link Roundup: From getting started to skinning

Flex 4 Gumbo Link Roundup: From getting started to skinning

Mock Flex 4 Gumbo logo

Flex 4 is certain to mold the future of RIA development. Building on the existing Halo theme the Flex Team has started to further refine the component model and architecture for Flex. Flex 4 has a strong focus on design. One primary goal is to allow designers and developers to collaborate in innovative and unseen ways bending the RIA paradigm and pushing the expressive envelope even further.

Here is a useful list of links for finding information about Flex 4 - Gumbo. From getting started to the new skinning features this list of links will help introduce you to Flex 4.

“Gumbo plan” video - Matt Chotin
http://flexorg.wip3.adobe.com/gumbo/gumboplan.htm

Flex Bug Database - Filtered to show 4 Gumbo Bugs

http://snurl.com/39jlk

Gumbo Themes
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Gumbo+Themes

An Introduction to the Gumbo Component Architecture
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Gumbo+Component+Architecture

Compiling Your First Flex 4 Application
http://blog.smartlogicsolutions.com/2008/07/15/compiling-your-first-flex-4-application/

Compiling Flex 4 (Gumbo)
http://sherifabdou.com/2008/07/compiling-flex-4-gumbo/

Adobe® Flex™ Gumbo Language Reference
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/gumbo/langref/

Gumbo Downloads from Adobe
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+4

Flex 4.0 Gumbo ~ Developer Designer workflow, just awesome
http://bkflex.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/flex-40-gumbo-developer-designer-workflow-just-awesome/

Using the beta Gumbo SDK in Flex Builder 3
http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/08/02/using-the-beta-gumbo-sdk-in-flex-builder-3/

Downloading and installing Flex SDK builds from opensource.adobe.com
http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/08/01/downloading-and-installing-flex-sdk-builds-from-opensourceadobecom/

Jumping Into Skinning with Flex 4
http://scalenine.com/blog/2008/07/17/jumping-into-skinning-with-flex-4/

Gumbo (Flex 4) Skin with Transitions
http://scalenine.com/blog/2008/07/20/gumbo-flex-4-skin-with-transitions/

Flex 4 (Gumbo) VSlider, HSlider, Panel Skinny Example
http://sherifabdou.com/2008/07/flex-4-gumbo-vslider-hslider-panel-skinny-example/

Flex 4(Gumbo) using the includeIn Property and States
http://sherifabdou.com/2008/07/flex-4gumbo-using-the-includein-property-and-states/

FXG kicks ass!
http://www.richapps.de/?p=156

ILOG Elixir Gauges using Flex 4 (aka Gumbo) FXG
http://blogs.ilog.com/elixir/2008/07/18/ilog-elixir-gauges-using-flex-4-aka-gumbo-fxg/

If you are Trying to Compile Gumbo (Flex 4) and getting a Verify Error
http://sherifabdou.com/2008/07/if-you-are-trying-to-compile-gumbo-flex-4-and-getting-a-verify-error/

Flex-mojos compiling Flex 4 Gumbo?
http://blog.flex-mojos.info/2008/07/16/flex-mojos-compiling-flex-4-gumbo/

A couple other related, useful links:

Cygwin
http://www.cygwin.com/

J2SE 5.0_13
http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/5.0_13/index.html

Ant 1.7.0
http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.7.0-bin.zip

mm.cfg
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/download/attachments/2392481/mm.cfg?version=1

FlexSDK.cfg
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/download/attachments/2392481/FlexSDK.cfg?version=1

Data Mart Management System

Description:
This Data Mart Management Software project mainly deals with automating the tasks of maintaining and transacting the goods. In the Warehouse System inventory management is the key process. This process includes the activities such as maintenance of stock details, maintenance of receipts and items etc. It is a tedious job to maintain all these details manually. Hence we opted to automate the Warehouse Management System. This project undergoes 5 modules,
1. Master maintenance
2. Receiving
3. Shipment
4. Billing
5. Reports
The Administrator has the privileges to maintain different types of Products, Suppliers, and Sub Location in-charges Database in the warehouse. He is concerned with registration of Suppliers, Sub-Location In-charge, and Addition of Products. The Sub location in-charges have privilege to maintain Products which are transformed from Administrator and registration of Retailers and all operations on these two databases.
The Retailer has privileges to maintain Products at the corresponding Retailer. The supplier has privileges to maintain parts Database and he can add parts and delete parts.

Responsibilities:
• Involved in writing test cases for Billing, Reports module.
• Created data base tables, queries and stored procedures.
• Implemented the server-side functionality for Billing, Reports Module.
• Involved in developing JSP pages and validations for Billing, Reports Module.
• Involved in developing charts and printing control using flex.

Skills:- Flash, Action Script, Jsp, Servlets, Apache Tomcat 5.5 & ORACLE 10G