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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 the 'Business Process' Category

Two Directory Source Control Workflow

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Two Directory Source Control is a work flow where you utilize one directory from source control, one directory that you work out of, and you then shuttle between them at your convenience. In this article, I’ll describe how traditional work flows work, the problems with them, and how you can use the Two Directory […]

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Back in the Consulting Game

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

I put in my 2 weeks notice 3 weeks ago at Multicast Media Technologies, a Live and On Demand Online Video company here in Atlanta. I was originally hired as a Flex Consultant back in March of 2007. I had taken a 3 month sabbatical to find a product company that jived with […]

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Preface
I hate time estimations. Tracking time for contract work takes a close 2nd. Unfortunately, I’ve never seen a lot of combination of both; estimating a project’s time line, and comparing the expectations with the realities at the end… and then actually ACTING on that data. In fairness, “the end” is extremely hard […]

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Who Has Time for Unit Tests?

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

A couple months ago, I read about dpUInt, yet another unit testing framework for Flex. I got it from reading the docs, it seemed easy to add to an existing or new project, and I’m all gung ho for giving it a try. If it sucks, I know I have both FlexUnit and […]

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When Do You Let Go of 8?

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

When is the right time to stop publishing to Flash Player 8 and start publishing to Flash Player 9? I’m struggling with this at work right now. All of my peers at work say “now” from engineering, design, and upper management. Engineering says it mainly from the variety of benefits Flash Player […]

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