Adobe MAX 2008: The Future of Flex Builder (Part Two)
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flex Development, MAX 2008, Rich Internet Applications, web integration | CommentsIn my previous post, I introduced the "Future of Flex Builder" session I attended at Adobe MAX North America, how the Flex Builder team is approaching new feature development and looked at the two main Design Fidelity features they are ...
Turkey Day Travels
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development, General Media / Stuff, MAX 2008, Rich Internet Applications | CommentsIts the day before Thanksgiving, Turkey's eve I guess, the most glorious of American gluttony-days, uh I mean holidays. A wonderful day full of family, football and of course food. Oh the food! I am only being semi-facetious, I ...
VivMedia Code Library: Version 0.03 released
Saturday, July 19th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Distribution, Flash Player, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications, Self Reference, web 2.0, web integration | CommentsI pushed a new version of the library yesterday to Google Code. This is a relatively small release, which was not really my intention for version 0.03. Originally, I was planning on adding the first of a series ...
VivMedia Code: Selection Controller
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications | CommentsWith the previous release of version 0.02 of the code base I added a new class called the SelectionController that enables you to treat items that implement the ISelectable interface as a selection group. As promised, this is the ...
Adobe Edge Article: Coding Standards
Saturday, June 14th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flex Development, General Media / Stuff, Rich Internet Applications, Self Reference, web 2.0, web integration | CommentsA few months ago I was asked to write an article for the Adobe Edge Newsletter on a topic of my choosing. After spending a bit of time thinking about what moved me at the moment, I decided to ...
VivMedia Code Library: Version 0.02 Released
Friday, June 6th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications | CommentsIts been a busy few weeks for me (with work and personal projects) but I am happy to say that version 0.02 of the VivMedia library is now available. This update includes a fully automated Unit Test suite for ...
The Extendable Singleton Pattern
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications | CommentsThe Singleton pattern is one of my favorite little patterns that can be used in any language that provides static typed properties/methods. There are many different uses of the Singleton and just as many ways to implement them within ...
VivMedia Code: the HashTable
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications | CommentsOne of my favorite, and until recently, most used classes in Flex was the ArrayCollection. The ArrayCollection is a powerful data-structure that acts similarly to an Array but provides an extended API that provide shortcuts to data access. A ...
VivMedia Code: The EventBroker
Monday, May 26th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications | CommentsThe EventBroker, in the Vivisecting Media Library, is an Flash Event routing utility that can be used in any ActionScript 3.0 or a Flex Project. The code was developed to be SDK independent so that it does not rely ...
Vivisecting Media Code Depot launched…
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications, web 2.0 | CommentsA while back I was doing some research into the Flash Local Connection and the ability to retain object typing across Flash applications. From this research came my Local Connection Manager (LCM) which I then hosted the source from ...
