Announcing DevelopmentArcâ„¢ Core Release Version 0.5
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications, web 2.0, web integration | No Comments »The newest release of DevelopmentArc Core is now available on the Google Code Repository. This release is the first release of the library under the new Core moniker. Previously the library was released under the Vivisecting Media Code ...
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 | No Comments »In 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 ...
Adobe MAX 2008: The Future of Flex Builder (Part One)
Monday, December 8th, 2008 Posted in Flex Development, MAX 2008, Rich Internet Applications, web 2.0, web integration | 1 Comment »One of the more interesting sessions at MAX this year was the Future of Flex Builder. The session was presented by Rob Brambley III, Tim Buntel, Tom Lane, David Zuckerman of the Flex Builder team. Tim Buntel, product ...
Turkey Day Travels
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development, General Media / Stuff, MAX 2008, Rich Internet Applications | No Comments »Its 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 ...
Binding Source for Flex 4 in Flex Builder 3
Thursday, August 28th, 2008 Posted in Flash Player, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications, web 2.0 | 4 Comments »Yesterday, I sat down and started playing around with trying to get the daily build of the Flex 4 SDK inside Flex Builder 3. After a bit of digging I finally got it all running and compiling as expected. ...
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 | No Comments »I 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 | 8 Comments »With 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 | 4 Comments »A 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 | 1 Comment »Its 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 | No Comments »The 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 ...