The Flex Guy

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 [...]

Recently, I was racking my brain trying to solve a problem I had with a DataGrid not refreshing data.  It took me a while to find the reason, so to help someone else with the same problem, I decided to write about it. Background I had an ArrayCollection of custom classes called Build.  Those Build [...]

In this article, I’m going to discuss four considerations for developing high quality custom components: Portability Flexibility Performance Weight Using these considerations, you’ll be able to develop more professional, usable components.  Even if I don’t think I will use my component in another project, I like to use these principles.

The little “Chat with Marty” module on the left side of my website is a cool little widget I got from Google. It allows visitors to your website to chat with you without revealing your google talk name, or requiring them to add you. You can get the widget from here: http://www.google.com/talk/service/badge/New Update: I removed [...]

There’s a couple of projects I’ve been working on lately, one of which is the BugQuash QuashBoard, that require a search input.  I decided to quit duplicating some of the work I’m doing and create a SearchInput control that extends the TextInput control and wraps the search logic into a reusable component. The thought process [...]

The next BugQuash is approaching fast (on May 17th) and we’re busy making sure things run smoother this time around. Bugs In Progress There’s a lot we’re trying to improve, but one of them is the process by which developers can find a bug to work on or help with.  The Adobe Bug System doesn’t [...]

The first Flex SDK BugQuash is now over and we’re pulling together stats and listing things we learned so that future events will be even better. Here’s some numbers to show roughly how successful the event was: Total patches submitted: 57 see what got submitted that dayPrevious to the event, there were 111 patches submitted [...]

I recently ran into a problem that held me up for a little while, although it seemed like it would be a simple problem.  After searching around and finding the solution, I found that it is actually pretty simple, just not obvious.  Since it took me a while to find the answer, I thought it [...]

Here’s an application designed for those fund raiser activities where you have a specific goal in mind and you’re encouraging people to donate money.  Probably for non-profits and similar organizations. The scenario would be something like this: You have a monitor (maybe a big LCD screen) facing the audience or the passers by of a [...]