Folks, I have been busy the last few days learning a new programming language called Flex 3 from Adobe.

Flex 3 is Flash for programmers. You can do the coding in notepad or any text editor and use the free compiler to create a flash file.

Here is a simple photo rating application that I created last week and I am releasing the binary and the source code for you to use and learn.

If you are a photographer, you can easily integrate this application in your website or blog to

1. Show of all your photos, like a presentation
2. Have a photo rating system
3. Run a competition
4. Or modify the code and make it do anything you want.

This free photo rating application will run on all the browsers on all operating systems that have the latest version of flash player.

You can check out the demo here.

Some basic stuff to get you up and running

If you do not have any programming background.
1. Download the binary file of the freeware Flex 3 photo rating software
2. Open data.xml in notepad.
3. Change the file locations with the locations of your files (I have 13 files there, you can add as many files as you want)
4. Upload everything on your server and give a link to the photorater.html file on your website.
5. If you have any questions, put it in the comments. I will not respond to support question in email.
6. If you want to hire somebody to help you change this application or develop a  new application, have a look at our services or  contact me.

If you are familiar with Flex 3
1. Download the source code of the freeware Flex 3 photo rating software
2. Open the photorater.mxml file in notepad or Flex Studio and have a look at the source code.
3. Have a look at data.xml file. This is the file that stores the xml data about the pictures. If you want you can replace the xml file with a php or aspx or jsp file that fetches data from the database to generate the xml in run time
4. Change the look and feel of photorater.html file
5. If you have any questions, put it in the comments. I will not respond to support question in email.
6. If you want to hire somebody to help you change this application or develop a  new application, have a look at our services or  contact me.
7. If you are at Indore, you can learn Flex 3 from the professionals at the Stepping Stone

Some links

• Check out the demo here
• Download the binary from here
• Download the source code from here (You can also view the source code by right clicking on the demo)
• Know more about Flex 3 and download the free SDK or the paid Flex Studio IDE
• Need help, post your comments in the comments section of this post.

If you plan to use it…
You are free to download the binary and the source code and modify it in anyway you want. But please mention somewhere that the original author is Gunjan Karun and give a link back to this site i.e. http://www.gunjankarun.com

The code would look like <a href=”http://www.gunjankarun.com”>Originally code by Gunjan Karun</a>

I hope this helps
Gunjan