Archive for September, 2008
Are You Using IntelliJ IDEA Flex Support?
Or am I one of the few people on the planet, who punishes myself with this half-baked support for flex that IntelliJ IDEA has, instead of just jumping the dreaded FlexBuilder ship, before I sink myself? Okay, that was a bit harsh, it just seems to me, that there isn’t a day, without a new [...]
September 16, 2008
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polesen · 
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Tags: flex, flexbuilder, IDEA, jetbrains · Posted in: Rich Internet Applications, Tools
Flash and Flex APIs Lack in Quality
Coming from long term Java programming, I can see that I have gotten used to very good api design. It is not, that JavaSE and JavaEE doesn’t have their corners of bad api design. But working with flash and flex, I seem to come across strange and bad api design a bit too often. The [...]
September 11, 2008
· polesen · 10 Comments
Tags: as3, flash, flex · Posted in: Design, Programming
Are AS3 Number Variables Real Objects or Not?
I am confused. Is the Number class really a class, that I can create instances of and expect to have reference semantics etc. like the rest of the classes in ActionScript3? Given this AS3 code: The compiler outputs a warning saying “null used where a Number value was expected“, but it does compile. The trace [...]
September 11, 2008
· polesen · 8 Comments
Tags: as3, flash · Posted in: Programming
Mate – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Lately, the new Mate flex framework by asfusion has caused quite a stir in the flex community, as a contender to the established frameworks of Cairngorm and PureMVC. Most of the comments on Mate that I have seen has been quite positive, which I think is well deserved. Mate offers a new way of doing [...]
September 10, 2008
· polesen · 12 Comments
Tags: cairngorm, flex, framework, mate, puremvc · Posted in: Design, Programming, Rich Internet Applications