Archive | June, 2007

Be careful what you loadmovie…

After being involved with AS3 and Flex for so long, I think I am now at a point where I have a really good understanding of the Flex framework. So when I was asked to build this online app, I immediately started it with Flex and before long had most of it working. However, the [...]

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It aint about the tech…

I usually keep personal observations on my blog to a minimum, keeping it more about the code and apps. But off late I have been feeling this a lot and so I feel I must speak at least once if only for cathartic release . There has been a lot of new activity in the [...]

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List paddingTop/paddingBottom controls the vertical distance between the itemRenderers ???

Another one of the Flex gotchas…I spent way too much time on this only to have an adobe engineer himself answer this on the flexcoders mailing list: I had created custom renderers for my list and it looked great. But there was a 2 pixel gap between the renderers that was driving me insane. After [...]

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New site for flex developers: Flextips

One thing that amazes me is that there isnt a site that aggregates tips on flex that developers find in the course of developing applications. With that in mind, I have just completed some work on my new site: flextips.corank.com. Running on the corank platform, the site essentially works like Digg (actually corank is a [...]

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Philadelphia Flash Users Group: Thanks for coming…

I just wanted to thank everyone who showed up for the Philadelphia Flash Platform Adobe User Group session this Thursday. It was a lot of fun for me and meeting so many Flash/Flex developers in the area was really cool. I was hoping to show a lot more code but the session seemed packed enough [...]

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