This is the blog of Jesse Warden, a Rich Internet Application Architect. He specializes in using Flex and Flash to create Rich Internet Applications.
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 […]
Yahoo released an AS3 version of their Map API. I got to play with it over the weekend. Ted’s got more details. The pro’s are its cheaper than ESRI’s bad ass component, wayyyyyy faster than the Flex 1.5 AS2 one (yes, you can write slow AS3 code), and “feels” very responsive. They […]
…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 […]
In a hurry? Skip to the code.
ActionScript 3 has given us true strong-typing; both compile time and runtime. This has many benefits from helping ensure code works once you actually compile as well as helping you debug runtime errors. The problem with perfect systems however is when you put in some chaos. […]
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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