Bubble chart with labels

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. [...]

CheckBoxGroup 2.0 (Beta)

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 [...]

Login Panel: Happy 2008

I thought I’d start the new year off right by offering my fellow Flex coders a useful component. It’s a highly configurable, customizable, extensible, and slightly fun login panel for Flex applications:

Click on the screen shot above to see a sample application that uses the login panel. Enter the following to test it:
user name: user@name.com
password: [...]

CheckBoxGroup

From the title of this post, you may think that I’m promoting a UI-programmer’s alternative to the Blue Man Group, but that’s really not the point.
The real point of this post is that I often run into situations where I need a group of check boxes to work together as a unit. Most often this [...]