Archive | January, 2008

Sneak Peek: Fan 4.2

A new blog post on the CIM Flex developer group blog talks about some of the new features coming out in the next release of the Flex based player. Check it out here.

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Creating custom List renderers, the complete guide (Part II)

Continuing from the last post, this entry just adds a few more tips for working with List controls. Creating RollOver/hit states: In the last entry I had shown how to create custom renderers that respected their position in the List. The next thing you will probably need to do is create custom rollover effects. One [...]

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Creating custom List renderers, the complete guide (Part I)

If you are a Flex developer, one of the Flex components you will work on quite a bit is the Flex List control. This entry will hopefully help you when creating custom List renderers the (hopefully) right and much lighter way. Almost all the Flex applications I work on require a List thats skinned a [...]

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Be careful with the new Flash Player 9.0.115.0 security changes.

I am surprised this isn’t talked about more in the blogosphere. The only reason I got to this was because a couple of my Flash applications broke this weekend and it took a lot of digging by quite a few of us on my team before we got to the root of the problem. So [...]

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The funny things you see …

One of the funniest screen-grabs while debugging : link

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Comcast Interactive Media’s Flash/Flex Team is blogging…

2008 began with on a great note for CIM. For the last few months a group of developers here, myself included, have been trying to be a little more vocal and public about the stuff we do and how we do it. I have done it on this blog a bit with entries on how [...]

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I am Tumbling …

A few months back I was introduced to something called Tumblr by Mat, a friend and fellow developer at Comcast Interactive Media. For the uninitiated, Tumblr is a microblogging platform, kind of like twitter except you aren’t posting what exactly you are doing but rather links, photos, videos etc with minimal to none commentary . [...]

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