VivMedia Code: the HashTable
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications | 1 Comment »One 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 | 2 Comments »The 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 | No Comments »A 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 ...
Flex 4: New MXML States Specification
Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in Flash Player, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications | 1 Comment »Ted over at OnFlex posted a link to the new Flex 4 MXML states spec and I sat down to read it. After finishing the spec, I thought long and hard about it and finally decided to add my ...
Is it Flex?
Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development | 1 Comment »Earlier this morning my friend Aaron hit me up with an IM asking if I had seen SearchMe.com. It is a new visual search engine that is 100% Flash Player based and he was curious if it was Flex. ...
The Flex Code-Behind Pattern
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flex Development, Rich Internet Applications, web integration | 12 Comments »The Flex code-behind pattern is a design pattern that has been around since the release of Flex 1.0 yet is not known or used by a lot of developers. The initial concept of the pattern was based on the ASP.NET ...
SXSW 2008 is almost here!
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development, Music, sxsw 2008, web 2.0, web integration | 6 Comments »This will be my 3rd year in a row for the music portion of the legendary South By Southwest conference. Once again, it starts in Dallas for me where Niki drives us down to Austin for the event. ...
FlexBuilder 3 Pro compiling Flex 2 SKD charts issue
Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Flex Development | No Comments »I am starting to work on a project that requires charting so I bit the bullet and upgraded to Flex Builder 3 Pro which includes the advanced charting component set. I was looking at some prototype code that was ...
Where are our mid-level developers?
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in Flex Development, General Media / Stuff, Rich Internet Applications, Self Reference, web 2.0, web integration | 2 Comments »Over the last few years a question has been lingering within the tech community: where are all the mid-level developers? Not only is this question being asked in the tech world, but it is now beginning to be asked ...
Aggressive “Direct” Recruiting
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flex Development, General Media / Stuff, JavaScript, Rich Internet Applications, Self Reference, web 2.0, web integration | 1 Comment »It just happened again... I am sitting at my desk and the phone rings from an "unknown" number. I answer the call and it is a Michael for Coit Staffing informing that he has been looking for me. ...
