Archive for the ‘MXML’ Category

Flex and Java, no Marriages are Perfect

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.  ...

MXML makes you quickly realize

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. ...