Simeon Says

In the third episode of the Simeon Says Screencast I am joined by Garth Braithwaite. Garth and I did some discussion a while back about how to best get skins applied to Flex 4 components that we want to share with folks. The result of that was some actionscript that set a default skin and [...]

In the category of a little good news with a little bad, we found out yesterday that the Flex 3.4 SDK has been released. This is great because we like progress, but it also comes with the news that it fixes a critical vulnerability for cross-site scripting that is present in 3.3. So word on [...]

I will be the first to admit, that by living in the digital age I have not put much time or emphasis on analog things. Most of my days are spent in front of a computer, or playing with a gadgets with batteries. So when my daughter got some pumpkin seeds and a small pot [...]

I was sure that after my past performances as an interviewee and as a substitute host, they would never have me back. But it appears Jeff and John are just gluttons for punishment. :) I had the opportunity to record the Flex Show with Mike Labriola a couple weeks ago. We got to talk about [...]

In the second episode of the “Simeon Says” screencast I am joined by my friend Matt Legrand. In this session we talk about how to create a new custom TitleWindow component in Flex 4 by extending Panel and PanelSkin. Download ( 82.93 MB 30:42) The code I used to prepare this session is hosted on [...]

Make sure to tune in for the next open iteration meeting for the Flex 4 SDK. Open Iteration Meeting next Tuesday – The Official Flex Team Blog.

Its funny how events in your life change your perception of yourself. For the last year I have been primarily focused on trying to sort out what kind of business I wanted to run now that I am on my own. Something I am still working on daily. But in the mean time it seems [...]

In this episode of Simeon Says, I walk through setting up Flash Builder Beta to utilize the nightly Flex 4 SDK builds from http://opensource.adobe.com Due to a bug in the released version of Flash Builder Beta this task is not as straight forward as it should be. Please reference the following links for more information [...]

Just a quick note to mention I had the opportunity to visit with the crew from the Inside RIA Summer of Flash podcast. We had a great visit about Flex 4 and namespaces, we talked about open source at Adobe and my opinions on it. We also talked a little bit about Hudson, Continuous Integration [...]

I have a habit of starting posts and then deciding not to post them because I am not sure anyone really cares. But I feel like anytime I get together with a group of developers I spend a good deal of time explaining things or talking about something fun that is going on. The main [...]