I continue to hear from recruiters looking for senior Flex and Flash developers. The recruiters represent clients who are looking for engineers, trainers, and architects to work on new projects as well as existing applications. So perhaps you will understand when I say that I’m still not convinced that Flash is dead.
Over the years, we [...]
This question comes from a *nix sysadmin (and all-around good guy):
“Jim, do you have a way to make flex handle a richer set of HTTP status codes in a portable way? Without that, I’m hesitant to recommend it for REST deployments.”
This is certainly a reasonable concern. The fact that Adobe still has not addressed this [...]
It has been a year since I wrote my first PureMVC vs. Cairngorm post, and in that time I have had the opportunity to build more applications in both frameworks for some pretty diverse organizations. Studying the official Adobe training materials for Cairngorm has also brought some points that I had not previously considered. Perhaps [...]
In the second Flex/Alfresco webinar, we showed the Flex side of how to get content from an Alfresco repository and display it in Flex. In this video, we show you the Alfresco side - how to create and deploy a custom JavaScript web script. You can watch the video and download the Alfresco source code [...]
In January I had the opportunity to visit the Queen City to provide some Flex training to a great team of developers under the queen’s crown, and to spend time with some dear friends as well. They (the developers, not the friends) had a requirement to produce bubble charts that had labels inside the bubbles. [...]
In my first Flex/Alfresco webinar, I showed how you can log in to Alfresco from a Flex UI using Alfresco’s Flex SDK. That was nice, of course, but it was also sort of a tease: it left folks wanting to see the next step. Well, it took a while, but I finally recorded a new [...]
I was delivering Cairngorm training to a client’s development team, and the team lead mentioned that the old Cairngorm Diagram Explorer really helped him get a feel for how the various moving parts of Cairngorm work together. After browsing through it, everyone on the team agreed that it was a great tool, but that since [...]
I’m on The Flex Show this week, talking a bit about Flex/Alfresco integration. Jeff and John were great, and I think I managed to get some useful information across in spite of the fact that I was recovering from the flu when we recorded it (back in December). There are a couple of items that [...]
I’m in the process of developing a new Flex 3 RIA, and the server code is not yet written, so I’m using static XML files to provide data while I build out the UI functionality. The XML files are stored on my development machine in a subdirectory of the folder that holds the main SWF. [...]
About 15 months ago I released the initial version of CheckBoxGroup, and I was very happy to see that a number of people found it useful. However, like most developers, I can’t stay happy with my creations for very long; I always seem to think of things that I could do to extend and/or improve [...]
