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More thoughts on caching in Flex

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 suffer any more than it has to. Continue reading More thoughts on caching in Flex

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Four Considerations for Custom Components

In this article, I’m going to discuss four considerations for developing high quality custom components:

  1. Portability
  2. Flexibility
  3. Performance
  4. 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.

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