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 short while feel better, or who were just curious what things really were like out there at the time.  I’m not paid by Adobe to do this; I just love the technology and want others to get involved.  Also, I developed a side business, unpaid, where I route recruiters/employers to my network, and my network to them.  I found it interesting to see what people are hiring for, and I feel it helps me keep tabs on what the market it is doing.  Nowadays, you barely ever hear people questioning whether to use Flex or not; rather, it’s mostly on deciding to use it vs. other technologies.  That said, it’s still interesting to me to see how and what the market is doing.Â
Category: Flex
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Agile Chronicles #10: Conclusions
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 reflect on how my first time in Agile worked on my current project.
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Creating Dynamic Lists in Flex & Flash
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. Â Then, I’ll identify common list building challenges, and how people have overcome them. Â Finally, I’ll show you how to utilize the built-in Flash and Flex classes which allow you to create not just lists, but really powerful dynamic components. Â This article is suited for both Flash and Flex.
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Handling Crossdomain.xml and 302 Redirects Using NetStream
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.