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.
Blog
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Flex Community Feedback Forum – Attend or Open Source May End?
That’s the impression I got from reading this post. Â I guess I’d be bitter too if I worked my tail off making something open source worthy, weeded through the thousands of bug reports on Jira to ensure I captured all the contributions, only to read not-so positive reviews about Adobe’s awesome efforts online.
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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.
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Saving Images Out of Flash/Flex Without Losing Quality
Flash Player 10 comes with a nifty new method for the flash.net.FileReference class called “save“. What’s dope is that you can send it a ByteArray, and it’ll write it verbatim. This means, saving images out of your Flash & Flex Applications is wicked fast now AND gets around that lamesauce security restriction that plagued a lot of older Flash Player 9 code. In the past, you had to either upload the image, ask the server to convert/save a ByteArray/Base64 encoded string for you somewhere, which you would then download via FileReference.download. That code would fail in Flash Player 10 because you cannot initiate a download unless it’s via a mouse click.