Anden Solutions LLC has developed an innovative online designer tool using Adobe Flash technology. With this application, you can select a template and then customize it online, adding backgrounds, texts, clip-art, etc. You can easily add some text, change the fonts and colors, add transparencies and gradients, apply effects, and many other features.

This application can be easily customized and integrated into any website so you can design graphics for print materials such as postcards, labels, t-shirts, etc. This application can also interact with online carts such as Volusion.

In addition to the web interface, Anden Solutions has also developed a back-end application that lets administrators upload/change backgrounds, fonts, and/or clip art. Using this back-end tool the administrator can also create templates for new products on the fly.

You can interact with a limited version of this application here.

Anden Solutions LLC is working with The MAD Samurai LLC creating a state-of-the-art web based system for t-shirt printing companies. This software consists of an Adobe AIR application that will be used by the printing company and an Adobe Flex web application used by the clients. This software will allow clients to upload artwork and then visualize it online on 3D models of the t-shirts. The software is being developed using several technologies such as Adobe Flex, Adobe AIR, WebORB for Java, Sandy3D, and MySQL database. Anden Solutions also adopted the Mate framework for this development.

The MAD Samurai LLC was established 2006 with a unique focus on local small businesses who can’t afford a full-time, in-house marketing department but need to compete on the level of larger corporations. They provide, in essence, a design, marketing and development “department” that is as personal and cuztomized as your own in-house department, but can be utilized and paid for on an as-needed basis for a fraction of the cost. Services cover everything from graphic design to website development and hosting management.

Anden Solutions is dedicated to delivering custom-made, high quality, and affordable system solutions. They specialize in designing simulations, educational video games, and Rich Internet Applications using Adobe Flex. The company’s headquarters are located in Florence, KY, with an additional development center in Córdoba, Argentina.

Update: To preview Anden’s latest online designer application go here.

Florence, KY – Anden Solutions has been awarded a contract with VirtualSalons.com to improve the performance of their Flex-based software. As a part of this contract Anden Solutions will modularize VirtualSalon’s existing application and will also create a series of new modules that will add new functionalities to the application. Among these new functionalities, Anden Solution will create a new login system, eCard application, notification emails, and role management modules.

VirtualSalons.com is an Orange, CA 92869 company offering state-of-the-art software for the Salons and Spas industry.  VirtualSalons & VirtualSpas web-ware is the embodiment of the classic management tools salons and spas need to run their business combined with an “Edgy-Twist” of Custom Marketing Tools and Quick-View Stats that will immediately boost its customers’ income. VirtualSalons.com provides its customers with an Online Appointment Book, Client Records Management, and Email Marketing system among other features, designed specifically for beauty professionals.

Anden Solutions is dedicated to delivering custom-made, high quality, and affordable system solutions. The company specializes in designing Rich Internet Applications, simulations, and educational video games. Anden Solutions’ headquarters are located in Florence, KY, with an additional development center in Cordoba, Argentina.

Anden Solution has been awarded a contract by the Center for Educational Technologies at Wheeling Jesuit University to develop and improve software and a website for the CyberSurgeons™ Mission. CyberSurgeons is a real time distance learning simulation developed for the National Institutes of Health that targets high school science students. The CyberSurgeons Mission uses Adobe Air technology to deliver a realistic experience to its audience by transferring real time data and communication from Mission Control to classrooms all over the country.

The Erma Ora Byrd Center for Educational Technologies houses cutting-edge educational technology on the campus of Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, WV. The center is home to the NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future, the space agency’s principal research and development center for educational technologies. The Center for Educational Technologies also houses the Challenger Learning Center®, which provides students, teachers, and adult learners with simulations that emphasize teamwork, problem-solving, decision-making, and communication skills. The Challenger Learning Center in Wheeling is one of 51 centers worldwide established by the Challenger Center for Space Science in memory of the space shuttle Challenger.

Anden Solutions is dedicated to delivering custom-made, high quality, and affordable system solutions. They specialize in designing Rich Internet Applications using Adobe Flex and Ajax, simulations, and educational video games. The company’s headquarters are located in Florence, KY, with an additional development center in Córdoba, Argentina.

Depending on the client needs and the project specifications, Anden Solutions either uses Cairngorm or Mate frameworks for the development of rich Internet applications (RIA) using Adobe Flex.

Cairngorm

The Cairngorm Microarchitecture is defined on the Adobe Labs site as “a lightweight yet prescriptive framework for rich Internet application (RIA) development.”

Cairngorm consist of a library (swc file) and a set of patterns that organize the development work. This collection of design patterns (microarchitecture) defines how we should handle the following design challenges:

• Handling user gestures on the client
• Encapsulating business logic and server interactions
• Managing state on the client and representing this state to the user interface.

Anden Solutions reaps the benefits of the Cairngorm architecture especially when developing complex RIA applications with multiple use-cases and views, that require a team of developers. Cairngorm has been very helpful for making those applications easily extensible and manageable.

For more information about Cairngorm visit http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Cairngorm

Mate

Mate framework is defined as “a tag-based, event-driven Flex framework that focuses on giving developers maximum flexibility.”  It has been developed by asfusion and it’s picking up a lot of steam in the Flex development community. Mate is pronounced like the Argentine tea (mah -teh) that gives AndenSolutions’ developers their daily doses of caffeine (actually, mateine).

In a few words, Mate is an MXML-based Flex framework that encourages the use of the MVC architectural pattern.  It consist of a swc file available for download from the asfusion web site.  Like Cairngorm, this framework also addresses event handling, data binding, and asynchronous processing. However, Mate utilizes the built-in event-driven nature of Flex applications instead of building a framework-specific event architecture. This allows for a very lightweight and flexible architecture.

The framework is built around an Event Map. The Event Map is a MXML file(s) that consists of a collection of handlers to respond to incoming events and perform any number of appropriate actions.

Mate also uses the Event Map to support dependency injection. Instead of databinding elements from the Model to the appropriate View component, child-by-child, you let Injectors do the work for you. An Injector will insert the appropriate property into all instances of a particular component, without having to pass it through the component’s parental hierarchy (extract from insideria.com).

For more information about Mate visit http://mate.asfusion.com/

What is Flex?

Adobe® Flex™ is an open source cross-platform development framework for creating true enterprise-class Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Flex enables us to create expressive, high-performance applications that run identically on all major browsers and operating systems. Also, since Flex is based on the Adobe Flash platform, the only requirement to run a Flex application is the ubiquitous Flash Player.

Flex applications serve as the presentation layer in a multi-layered model. Flex applications provide a stateful client that retains information while performing different operations so there is no need to load a new web page each time that a request is made.

Flex and the Flash Player provide many useful ways to interact with the business layer residing in the server, allowing data to be sent or loaded without requiring the application to reload the whole view.

Benefits

Flex applications offer the following benefits:

• Flex applications provide almost the the same richness of a desktop application, and do so while running inside of a standard web browser.
• Flex offers seamless integration of the user interface with XML-based data services, including Web Services, XML/HTTP, and RSS.
• Shorter development time than traditional HTML based applications.

Our experience

Anden Solutions has proven experience at developing Flex applications for Fortune 500 clients. We are currently using Adobe Flex version 2.01 and version 3. We can deliver stunning and practical interfaces that integrate seamlessly with back end systems and applications and work with asynchronous XML data services. The use of Flex, combined with our experience and processes, allows us to rapidly deliver outstanding products to the market.