Merapi is a new project that is a framework for connecting AIR to java at the desktop. It will be built as freeware until the team is happy with the stability. We will then move it to Google Code and make the project open source. There will be more to come but for now I [...]
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I’ll be speaking at the next 360|Flex conference coming up in Atlanta. If you’ve not been to a 360|Flex in the past, they’re great conferences and you should definitely check it out. Tom and John do a great job a putting these events on. There will be a ton of great speakers, include several from [...]
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David Coletta from Virtual Ubiquity (Buzzword) will be giving a talk on optimization in Flex a the Adobe MAX conference next week. He was gracious enough to include a screen cast of an application I’ve been working on in his talk. Make sure you make it to one of his sessions. I’ll be there, so say [...]
Continue readingIn most of the Flex apps written these days there’s a need for applicattion level configuration data. It’s really nice to have this data sit in an XML file on a server somewhere so that it’s really easy to update. Typically I’m seeing stuff in these files like Copyright info, Terms of Service, maybe some [...]
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My posts on team development will start from a beginners understanding of programming, working up to an advanced look at architecture and design. First thing’s first: What’s this MVC thing? MVC stands for Model-view-controller. MVC aims to separate, or decouple, data (model) from the user interface (view) and functional logic (controller). You can read a [...]
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In the past year or so I’ve been playing the role of technical lead / architect on most of the Flex projects I’ve been working on. Usually this involves a team of 3-6 developers and 1-3 designers. The focus of my blog over the next few months will be to pass on the tips and [...]
Continue readingArtemis began as a proof of concept. One day, about 4 weeks ago I was working away in my office at effectiveUI when one of my bosses (although I’m sure he would object to that title), Brook, asked me about the feasibility of an application for a potential client. This is not an odd thing [...]
Continue readingI recently found the need to implement an Abstract Class in a package I was writing for an SDK. When I searched out the methods that others had used in an attempt to “fake” an Abstract Class I felt they fell short. Most of the other solutions involve protecting the constructor of the Abstract Class [...]
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If you’re coming to the Flex world as a java user one thing you might miss is static code blocks. Until today I didn’t think this was possible in Flex/AS 3, but after a conversation with a coworker (Jim : psalterego.com) I found out static code blocks are possible. First off, let me give a [...]
Continue readingAs I was stepping into the tech blog posting arena I had a major concern: How to deal with posting source code. Here are the solutions that I came up with: A simple solution is to surround your source code in a PRE tag. (PRE tag defined.) PRE Tag source code: <pre> package com.eui.sourcecodeblog { [...]
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