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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.

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Uploaded my source code for the FlightAware app shown in my last entry - source | ZIP. I’ve only done a little documentation; aka, on the header of each class. Keep in mind I wrote this in 20 blazing fast hours with no sleep, so ignore quality & practices. The only thing […]

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Bucket Brigade Pattern is not Dead in AS3

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

I’d like to know how others are handling the fact that Event bubbling only works with classes that extend GUI objects (aka, DisplayObject).
If you already know how event bubbling works, you can skip to my problem.
Background on Event Bubbling
Event bubbling is dope. It allows you to have a deeply nested MovieClip (View) dispatch […]

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The Gaia Beta was released today by a friend of mine, Steven Sacks. Gaia is a Flash framework created for Flash Designers & Developers who create Flash sites. The reason this is an important is that it now supports ActionScript 3 and Flash CS3.
Discussions
I must of racked up at least $500 in cell […]

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When You Hit a Design Brick Wall in Flex…

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

…code it your bloody self. But first, weigh the consequences. I’m referring specifically to when you have a design that you are trying desperately to shoe-horn into the Flex components. Key phrase here being “shoe-horn”, meaning it doesn’t fit quite right.
A lot of designs can have specific elements that can be extremely […]

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PureMVC Frustrations and Code Behind Thoughts

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Over the holiday’s, I went to PureMVC.org to read over the documentation. PureMVC, although a year old, is the new framework on the block for developing Rich Internet Applications atop the Flash Player. There are plans to port the framework to other languages and runtimes like PHP & Silverlight in the future. […]

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