Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 29th, 2008
If you use Flex on a Mac you may have noticed that the trackpad scroll doesn't work. The Flex team has deferred the problem, claiming it's a Flash Player bug. I can't find the Flash Player bug database, so I can't confirm it.
If you use Flex and find this as ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
My responses to Flex and Java – A Perfect Technological Marriage, section by section
Intro: "so you've been a java developer..." then "... JavaScript". Java and JavaScript, two different things. (Acknowledged implicitly in section 1)
Flex will be familiar to a Java developer. It will be familiar to a JavaScript web developer. ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Today on JavaRanch I saw the following:
Yes, those are Hebrew comments in Java code.
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Why is the XML namespace for Adobe's Flex mx?
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
When I first started back into tech in October, I was ignorant of the names of most of the technologies and how they fit in the ecosystem. I hadn't heard of Flex, Flash's big brother.
Since I've become familiar with it, and have been working with the Flex Builder 3 ...
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
If you have ever had to review someone else's MXML code and tried to trace your way through hierarchies of VBox controls containing HBox controls containing VBox controls containing TileList controls containing VBox controls, and so forth, you will quickly realize the value in creating components that have semantic meaning. ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Note that it looks slightly similar to Java code but is less verbose because the decorator pattern is not (mis)used as it is in Java. -Bruce ...
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