When dealing with CDN’s, a lot of time you’ll get redirected. Other times, you’ll just be dealing with a server that is dynamically loading assets from other servers. In both cases, the server may return a redirect, and thus a new URL that you’ll load your media from (image, video, sound, etc.). This can cause havoc with Flash Player’s automatic loading of crossdomain.xml files for permission to access the media in Flash Player.
Category: ActionScript
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Parsing & Rendering Lots of Data in Flash Player
Introduction
When Flash Player 9 was released, one of the touted features was performance with the new ActionScript Virtual Machine. Â At the time, I had put Flex 2 through a few of it’s paces, and felt that the new Flash Player had more than enough speed. Â I figured I would never run into performance problems with ActionScript 3 since I never use any of the 3D engines for my work. Â Then, on my recent project, I ran into 2 performance bottlenecks which caused the Flash Player to choke.
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Working With Dean: Flex Designer Developer Workflow
Introduction
I learn something new every project, and this one was no different. Â The one I want to talk about today is that designers can do a lot more in the designer developer workflow than I’ve previously experienced them doing.
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Agile Chronicles #9: Scope Creep
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 7 – Bugs, Unit Testing, and Throughput
- Part 8 – Demo, Burnout, and Feature Juggling
- Part 9 – Scope Creep
- Part 10 – Conclusions
In this article, I discuss how Scrum for the most part brings Scope Creep under control, the areas where it doesn’t, and what you can do about it.