The Flex Guy

Something I have been wanting a LONG time has been the ability to set my google searches to default to Past Year. Since I do a lot of software related searches, results from 5 years ago are usually irrelevant. I did a search on the structure of google search urls and found this post: http://www.our-picks.com/archives/2007/01/30/google-search-urls-revealed-or-how-to-create-your-own-search-url/ [...]

Something I’ve been wanting for a while was a slick way to have “bookmarks” in my code to help me jump quickly to certain places in the source files. It’s not uncommon for me to have a long list of files open in Flash Builder. Some files are unnecessarily large, with far more functions than [...]

The team I’m on have been using Hudson for our builds for quite a while and really like it. A while back, something went terribly wrong and Hudson, well, let’s just say he passed away. We tried and tried to bring him back but after a week of doing all we could, we had to [...]

I’ve landed a new job with Silicon Publishing Inc. Silicon Publishing creates custom InDesign solutions for companies. I’ve been working on a web to print designer tool over the last 6+ months that will allow users to create custom photobooks, cards, envelopes, and other custom print products. It’s been a great learning experience so far. [...]

As I discussed previously, caching can have it’s advantages.  It makes referencing objects and binding much more straight forward.  Unfortunately, it comes at a performance cost.  Since I’ve been using caching, there are some important things to keep in mind when you use caching to make sure your data sticks around and your performance doesn’t [...]

The project I’ve been working on for a while now uses caching.  This means that the application will store the objects returned from the server in a DataCache and anytime objects are returned from the server, they are synced with the DataCache.

Here’s another gotcha that took me a while to realize what was wrong. I was using an ArrayCollection to hold a collection of items. I had a custom sort applied since the items were typed objects that needed to be sorted according to certain, out-of-the-ordinary fields. In the sort method, I was comparing values and [...]

I have been immersed in Flex 4 lately and had this issue come up.  It seems like it might be fairly easy to run into and isn’t entirely obvious at first so I’ll share.  I had a custom component that included buttons that weren’t registering click events. Here’s the scenario.  I created a custom component [...]

Adobe has made the announcement that AIR developers will be able to create applications for Android in late 2010!  This is exciting news for AIR developers, since it opens up the mobile devices arena.  AIR 2.0 will have support for multi-touch gestures, GPS, accelerometer and screen layout. Check out the AIR team blog to see [...]

It’s a new year and that means a great excuse to make some site improvements. I feel like theflexguy.com has been a moving target ever since it’s conception. I was originally hosting my site on GoDaddy. I was fairly pleased, although they gave me a dirty feeling (have you seen their commercials?). Here’s some of [...]