Monthly Archives: January 2009

Flex Community Feedback Forum – Attend or Open Source May End?

Posted on January 26, 2009 by admin

That’s the impression I got from reading this post.  I guess I’d be bitter too if I worked my tail off making something open source worthy, weeded through the thousands of bug reports on Jira to ensure I captured all … Continue reading →

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Agile Chronicles #9: Scope Creep

Posted on January 26, 2009 by admin

The Agile Chronicles is a set of articles documenting my experiences using an Agile process (Scrum) in software development on my current Flex project. Part 1 – Stressful Part 2 – Code Refactoring Part 3 – Branch Workflow Part 4 – … Continue reading →

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Saving Images Out of Flash/Flex Without Losing Quality

Posted on January 24, 2009 by admin

Flash Player 10 comes with a nifty new method for the flash.net.FileReference class called “save“. What’s dope is that you can send it a ByteArray, and it’ll write it verbatim. This means, saving images out of your Flash & Flex … Continue reading →

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Making a Cooler Cursor in Flex

Posted on January 18, 2009 by admin

Skip Intro Preface Creating custom cursors in Flex is pretty straightforward.  You call the CursorManager’s setCursor method, passing in your cursor as the first parameter, and you’re good to go.  It can be an image, a SWF, or a custom class; … Continue reading →

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Agile Chronicles #8: Demo, Burnout, and Feature Juggling

Posted on January 17, 2009 by admin

The Agile Chronicles is a set of articles documenting my experiences using an Agile process (Scrum) in software development on my current Flex project. Part 1 – Stressful Part 2 – Code Refactoring Part 3 – Branch Workflow Part 4 – … Continue reading →

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