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 [...]
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 [...]
