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Friday, 09 February 2007 00:00 |
Here's a great article I'll share from Bruce Eckel, author of Thinking in Java. It's about the future of Java interfaces, RIAs, Flash, and Flex. Read and enjoy!
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Friday, 09 February 2007 00:00 |
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 Last night was the Seattle Flex User Group that featured Mike Piller, founder of Midnight Coders. He is the founder of the company and has very extensive knowledge of Flex, ActionScript3, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Java, .NET... etc. He created a product called WebORB that is an incredibly useful tool for companies connecting to data sources. He doesn't have a lot of money for PR so the product isn't something everyone has heard of. I think they should! Check out the website that describes it here: http://www.themidnightcoders.com.
Also, his blog is found here: http://blog.themidnightcoders.com.
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Friday, 02 February 2007 00:00 |
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Here's a great example of someone harnessing the power of Flex to create their own custom component. It's a time control very similar to the one that Windows uses. You change the hour, minute and seconds section seperately, using either the keyboard or the number stepper. The source is available to see and extend for yourself. Great work Brendan Meutzner! http://www.stretchmedia.ca/code_examples/time_entry/TimeEntryTester.html
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Monday, 29 January 2007 00:00 |
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Sharing custom components are a great way to keep from re-inventing the actionscripted wheel. Pulling these off of Flex Exchange, I had been really confused about why developers were nesting their .as files in folder after folder that seemed to be named in some kind of odd pattern. "Why can't they just put it in the root folder!?" I guess it showed my inexperience because I finally have more of an understaning on the reason and it makes a lot of sense. I guess those professional programmers at Adobe really do know what they're doing! So, it's essentially, reverse domain name notation so something from Adobe.com would be com.adobe... The folder structure would be the same. I found some links to descriptions of the convention, and why it's done. Here's a couple that explain it pretty well: Once you understand classpaths, then you will know how to include custom components downloaded from the Flex Exchange or from other professional programmers. Here's a link describing how to add the path for the custom classes. I hope this explains it for people starting out that are as confused as I was before I understood it. It should get you looking professional, quicker.
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Wednesday, 24 January 2007 00:00 |
I recently received the book ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook by Joey Lott, Darron Schall & Keith Peters. I have to say, I'm extremely impressed. The recipes are very well written, giving examples of what works and what doesn't work, there is a variety of topics and it's laid out in a way that lends itself to being very usable.
It discusses a lot of great topics, like how to detect a users bandwidth to decide what video file to serve. This is great since without Flash Media Server, you don't have automatic bandwidth detection and would need an alternate method. It talks about some of the math challenges you could come against and has some solutions. If I had to, I'm sure I could figure out how to identify a point on a circle, but they include sample code for you.
A lot of fundamental questions I had were answered in this book. It doesn't go into a lot of deep detail on theory but it gets just deep enough to make a person feel comfortable with the language. The only criticism I could tell about the book is that there are typos. Enough that it can be somewhat distracting at times but they aren't bad enough to detract from learning the recipes.
In summary, this book is a must have for anyone who wants to go places with thier Flash 9 and Flex 2.0 skills!
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