While I do like to write UI code in ActionScript3 within the flex framework, I also miss features from Java sometimes. One of those missed features is method overloading, the ability to have several methods with the same name, differing only in input and output types. This is not possible in as3.
Just Use Default Values [...]
In the flex application we are currently developing, the need has arisen to get some more structure on the code. In the upcoming months, we are going to do a great deal of flex development, heavily expanding the functionality of the application, and of course we want to keep a maintainable application. Because of this, [...]
Are you a Java developer with the thought: “What the f*** is up with all the flex hype here in the Java camp? Is flex not just the same old closed flash world like always?”. If so, then this post is for you.
In my recent post Flex Leads to Clash Between Java and Flex [...]
The great flex framework from Adobe lends itself to writing “real” applications in flash. By this, I mean large, real, fat clients, filled with business logic on a large domain model. There are already examples of this around, including Adobes own Photoshop Express. This is a clear shift in movement, when compared to what [...]
I will go out on a limb here, and say something totally general about two developer communities, and how they view each other. We define ourselves against others (those who do not are the true innovators), and now, I will go define myself against others :-)So what do I mean? Flex have spawned a lot [...]
Being used to the excellent collection apis of Java, I come to expect that of other platforms too. The Flex platform has the IList interface, which amongst other methods, has the removeAll() method. Sadly, it is missing the addAll(Collection) method, so I am left to do this instead:
coll.removeAll();
var newElements : ArrayCollection = xxx as ArrayCollection;
for [...]
In a recent blog post, James Ward from Adobe write about where the 64bit support for flash player on linux is. The main point in the post is, that Adobe, by open sourcing the VM of the flashplayer in the tamarin project, has made it possible for us to do the 64bit support for them. [...]
I am regularly reading Matt Chotin from Adobe to get information about flex.
I just came across a post about a flex and coldfusion survey they are running, and because I use and care about flex, I took the time to take the survey. I just wanted to let you all know, that this survey is [...]
It should be so nice, but it is not. What can be downloaded of the new Flex 3 and AIR 1 releases? Windows and Mac versions, but no Linux version yet! I know, they have alpha/beta releases of Flex Builder 3 for linux, but they have no final release. Adobe has started releasing flashplayer for [...]
Here we go again, with a little rant about Adobe and their half-way openness in flex.
They keep shouting about flex being open source, which is true, sort of. I mean, it is, but there are components in it, that are not. Take the new flex3, for instance. If you browse the flex3 SDK apidocs (and [...]
