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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 January, 2009

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 the contributions, only to read not-so positive reviews about Adobe’s awesome efforts online.

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Agile Chronicles #9: Scope Creep

Monday, January 26th, 2009

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 – POC, Strategy, and Design Challenges
Part 5 – Acceptance Criteria & Punting
Part 6 – Tools, Extra Merge Day, and Postponed Transitions
Part [...]

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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 Applications is wicked fast now AND gets around that lamesauce security restriction that [...]

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Making a Cooler Cursor in Flex

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

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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; as long as it’s a DisplayObject, it’ll work.  However, some cursors are more dynamic than just animating [...]

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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 – POC, Strategy, and Design Challenges
Part 5 – Acceptance Criteria & Punting
Part 6 – Tools, Extra Merge Day, and Postponed Transitions
Part [...]

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