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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 July, 2006

Binding in the Trenches

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

It’s 7:50 pm on Sunday, and I’m still working. I figured I’d share why I’m debugging like crazy instead of relaxing.
Bindings.
For those of who know of Flex 2, Adobe’s tool for programmers to create Rich Internet Applications, it has this one feature that sets it apart from Flash, and incidentally, it’s brother Spry shares. [...]

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Non-Selectable TextArea for Flex 2

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Bloke on the Flexcoders list needed a TextArea that wasn’t selectable. Editable didn’t work because you could still select text, and it showed the i beam cursor. Enabled didn’t work because it colored the text the wrong way, and forced him to use custom styling (or CSS selectors). TextArea doesn’t have a [...]

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I Need An Office

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

I’ve been working from home for a year and a half now, and I’ve had enough. It’s time for an office.
Yeah, I know, I used to brag about how cool it was, and how nice it was to work in pajamas. The conveniences are still there mind you. I can always be [...]

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There are a few dark little secrets to the Button control in Flex 2 that can trip a designer up. It took me 2 1/2 hours to figure this shiz out so I just HAVE to blog it. I’m running on fumes, and this is the 3rd blog entry in the past 30 [...]

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Regardless if you Flex or Flash, I ran into a porting issue with a Flashcom app I wrote in Flex 1.5 & ActionScript 2. A lot of the server-side code, which is written in case sensitive JavaScript 1, utilizes the Flashcom Component Framework. This framework utilizes a namespace scheme to allow clients to [...]

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