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This is the blog of Jesse Warden, a Rich Internet Application Architect. He specializes in using Flex and Flash to create Rich Internet Applications.

Archive for June, 2005

Wanted to not only learn bindings in Flex, but see how they compared to Flash in terms of actually using them and seeing their benefits side-by-side to Flash. The fact you can bind any property to any property of a GUI component rocks the mic!
So, since both of these RSS reader’s hit the same [...]

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BBC Flash Components True to Their Word

Friday, June 17th, 2005

A long, long, time ago… say, the re-election of Bush (or dumbfoundedness of the mass media depending on how you look at it), a group of dev’s at the BBC mentioned they would release their component set.
Naturally, I figured bollocks… I’ve heard that 50 billion times before from various company representatives, and the only people [...]

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Willow, Our New Golden Retriever Puppy

Friday, June 10th, 2005

So cute!!!

More Photos of Willow

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There are a plethora of new and old tools out there to debug your Flash movies. However, just a reminder you can use Flash to see your trace statements and use your debugger while a SWF is running in a browser. Steps are as follows:

Close all browsers and Flash.
Go to your Flash installation [...]

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I’m not a big fan of doing ActionScript inline within tags and/or within attributes. However, it does make data binding to properties extremely simple. Example, if you want to show a city & state based on a result from a webservice that takes a zipcode, you can do:
<mx:Label id="cityState_lbl" text="{ws.result}" />
Extremely simple binding. [...]

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