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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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Really edge case here, but hey, it’s something.
Background
In creating a Vidego API (video content management API) example in Flash CS3, I ran into problems making an AS3 version from the AS2 version. Flash CS3 doesn’t haven an Accordion component, so I went about using a List instead. My problem with the List in […]

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How to Fix the Flash CS3 Components

Friday, March 28th, 2008

…and end the drawNow madness.
I knew something was SERIOUSLY wrong when I read in the official docs (Part 3) from Adobe that if your code doesn’t work correctly, try using “drawNow”, and failing that, “validateNow”. What do you mean “try”? What… the… hell…

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Post Microsoft MIX 2008 Thoughts

Monday, March 17th, 2008

If you are in a hurry, here are some links with excerpts about the section.
Contents

Introduction - What and Why MIX?
Conference Grounds - Where was MIX and how did it go down
DoubleClick - Syndication ready Silverlight
Have we seen this before? - “Dude, Flash did that years ago.”
Silverlight Adaptive Streaming - Curious about how the buffering works.
Silverlight […]

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Why Flash Player?

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Adobe is doing a marketing campaign to help answer “why?” over at 30onair.com. Specifically, why would you utilize a certain technology, or set of technologies, that Adobe offers. The site aggregates videos on YouTube from people around the world answering these questions in about 30 seconds. You record a 30 second video […]

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Speaking at 360Flex: Making Bling with Flex

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

I’m speaking at 360Flex next week, Feburary 25th at 4:00 pm. My topic is officially called “Big and Famous: How to Succeed as an Independent Developer”. My topic will cover:

Why and how to become an independent developer
Why and how to make money
Why and how to build your personal brand
Why and how to use […]

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