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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 September, 2007

Exclude.xml, functionality in Flash 8 and MX 2004 that allowed you to exclude ActionScript 2 classes compiled into your SWF, does not work in Flash CS3 for ActionScript 3. A similar function is available in Flex 2 via the load-externs option. This is the basis of how Flex modules work. The lack [...]

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How to Show Regular Time in Google Spreadsheets

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

I cannot read military time. I can read regular time. Google Spreadsheets at the time of this writing only supports formatting for military time. After digging around, I found this formula works:
=TEXT ( theCell, “hh:mm a”)
You can then have the military time column (which will auto-format when you type a time value [...]

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Flex GUI WYSIWYG Creator Prototype

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

Screen cast and source at the bottom.

Preface
John Grden created something like this in the past called FLEXible. Basically, you use Flex as a drag and drop interface to create GUI’s. The GUI’s are represented as XML, and this XML is used in another context. FlexBuilder creates and renders MXML as well as [...]

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Weak Activation Object

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

It appears either A) The Activation Object in ActionScript 3 is dumber than it’s predecessor, or B) the new Garbage Collector implemented in Flash Player 8 is more aggressive, or C) I’ve never had this use case. Naturally, I’d like to believe that it’s A, but I have a sinking suspicion it’s a combination [...]

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Silverlight First Impressions

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

I’m a Flash & Flex Developer, and these are my first impressions of Silverlight. Silverlight is a rich media web browser plug-in that was recently released by Microsoft.
This is long. If you’re in a hurry:

Why should I care? Flash is pimp!
I’m a Flash/Flex Developer and don’t want to read the Silverlight SDK
What [...]

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