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 kuler Desktop Sneak Peek
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Posted in Adobe APIs, Flash Player, Rich Internet Applications, kuler, web 2.0, web integration | No Comments »A new version of Adobe kuler desktop is now here and ready for you download! Recently, I have been providing Flash and AIR development for the wonderful people in Adobe's Emerging Creative Technologies (ECT) team and I wanted to share ...
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 ...
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 ...
