I am working on a project where I need to make the view layer fit into a small interface. Unlike in HTML, we can’t use css to control all of the look at feel features of the components in Flex. And example of something I wanted to do was to use CSS to change both [...]
I don’t know exactly why I associate Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection (DI) with Java… Well of course its because of Spring. But anyway, as Flex and AS continue to mature and the developer ecosystem grows we continue to see trends in the type of development being done. And as my title suggests [...]
I was scanning twitter yesterday and I saw a note from a frustrated developer who couldn’t find any really good simple example of the difference between XML, XMLList and XMLListCollection. Being the handy and informative (read nosey) guy that I am I decided to respond to the tweet to discuss this. The problem here is [...]
A while back I wrote a small swf for the header in my wifes site. I wrote it in flex using an HBox and i set the horizontalScrollPosition of the HBox to slide the images along. I was never very happy with it because despite my best efforts to make it scroll smoothly, I never [...]
I have been working with ActionScript for a long time. And I have to admit I don’t know if the reason I never noticed some of the functionality was it was added after I read the documentation, or if I just never looked close enough to pick it up. But never the less I find [...]
At the Adobe Community Summit a couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to help teach the AIR Flex course. It was a lot of fun and I think of all the events that week doing that helped me meet more people. During the class I answered a lot of questions, but there were some [...]
Last week Adobe released the details of an update for Flash Player that will be released next month. While Flash player updates are typically nothing to be concerned with, this time may be different. If you use flash to connect to an outside source for data you need to review this document and see how [...]
I took some time this weekend and helped my wife update her site. I talked her into letting me build a little flex header that displays the photos from her flickr stream. My wife takes a few pictures of our daughter everyday with her iPhone and posts them to flickr, so I thought this would [...]
Ok, so I had my first WTF moment last night in trying to be more AS3 and flash happy. I started the FreshBooks API AS3 Library, and I tested it in Flex 3 and AIR. It worked great. Just so that the FreshBooks folks would know I started the project, I hit their contact us [...]
Ok, so polygeek posted this neat little swf the other day. He had a swf which contained a TextField and he had applied a drop shadow to the text. Then he updated this so that when you moved your mouse cursor around, the drop shadow moved as if the cursor was the light source. I [...]
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