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 [...]
In the grand scheme of things, this may not seem like a big question. However, as a developer who likes to reference the API documentation frequently, it seems significant. The question is this: Why does the Flex 3 Help feature bury the API documentation when the Flex 2 Help feature made it so readily available?
Here [...]
One of the great advantages that Flash (and by extension Flex) has over Ajax is that you don’t have to worry about browser idiosyncrasies or versions: If your application heavily depends on JavaScript and/or CSS, you could find major issues whenever a new browser version comes out. By contrast, Flash 4 movies that I built [...]
