I don’t think I made the business case. Rather, I think my uber-focused CTO wants to see visible proof of Silverlight 2 being a valid platform to build comparable front-ends for video & media players like we already do with Flash Player. So, we’re both hitting Las Vegas in March to attend MIX 2008.
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Yahoo AS3 Maps API & FlightAware in Flex: Part Deux of Deuuuuuuux
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 you should really care about are 2 things.
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Yahoo AS3 Maps API & FlightAware in Flex: Part 1 of 2
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 also removed the default animations built-in which is nice. While they were a cool effect, they made the map feel slow and un-responsive, and I’m sure made the code really really challenging for the developers at Yahoo to debug. -
Bucket Brigade Pattern is not Dead in AS3
I’d like to know how others are handling the fact that Event bubbling only works with classes that extend GUI objects (aka, DisplayObject).
If you already know how event bubbling works, you can skip to my problem.
Background on Event Bubbling
Event bubbling is dope. It allows you to have a deeply nested MovieClip (View) dispatch an event and “let you know it did something relevant”. The “let you know” part is accomplished by the bubbling being set to true for the dispatched event, and the “relevant” part is making the assumption you’ve listened for the event type its dispatching.