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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 'Flex' Category

Flash Player 11: Gaming Platform?

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

When Director was being overtaken by Flash, you could see the signs by what they were teaching at local colleges, what jobs were hiring for, and activity centers online based more around Flash’ growth vs. Director. The same happened with Flex; Macromedia employee’s typically involved on the Flashcoders email list started to go quiet [...]

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When utilizing PureMVC Mediator’s, there are 2 ways I’ve seen people write them. The first way is to have the Mediator call methods on the View, passing data it retrieved from a Proxy. This can also be done from a Command as well. The second way is to actually give the Mediator/Command [...]

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This is a post I plan to do yearly, every April.  I originally started it (late last year) because at the time, many were attempting to guess the effects of the economy’s slow decline on the Flash & Flex market.  I was hoping it’d help others who were insecure, those who had only been in Flex a [...]

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Agile Chronicles #10: Conclusions

Tuesday, April 14th, 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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Creating Dynamic Lists in Flex & Flash

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

In this article I’ll describe what a dynamic list is, go over the basic parts that make up a list, and show you how to build those basic parts.  Then, I’ll identify common list building challenges, and how people have overcome them.  Finally, I’ll show you how to utilize the built-in Flash and Flex classes [...]

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