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Exploring ExtJS with DeftJS 5 days ago

It's been quiet here on Ye Olde Blogg lately. I've spent the last few months trying out various HTML component libraries and JavaScript frameworks, and have finally selected what I think is the most promising combination: ExtJS with DeftJS. Anyone...

Thoughts on Flex and HTML5 5 months ago

It has now been a little over a week since Adobe revealed its plans for the mobile Flash player and the Flex SDK. Now that the dust has started to settle and some additional information has been made available, I wanted to give my candid impression o...

BlazeDS and LCDS RPC Call Ordering 8 months ago

I'm working on a project that is performing "real-time saving" of data in a Flex UI. In other words, if they do something in the UI, that change is saved to the database automatically, rather than waiting until the user presses a save button. One ...

Swiz 2.0 Beta, Now with AOP! 8 months ago

In case you missed it, the Swiz team has made Swiz 2.0 Beta available. It includes the much-anticipated Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) features that have been in the works for a long time. AOP is incredibly powerful, and having done a lot of work ...

Spark Skins, Components, and Presentation Models 10 months ago

In the Flex 3.x world, I adopted the Presentation Model pattern and applied it just about everywhere. Separating the non-view logic made perfect sense, far better than the code-behind approach, and cleaned up the view components wonderfully. Then ...
keywords design patterns, development, flex, perfect sense, presentation model, presentation models, skins, view logic

Swiz Console 1.2, and an introduction to AOP in ActionScript 10 months ago

First just a quick note that I have updated the Swiz Console to version 1.2, which maintains parity with Swiz version 1.2. This update adds a tab to show views that have been processed with ViewAdded and ViewRemoved. As always, you can grab the swc o...
keywords development, flex, parity, swc, swiz

Swiz 1.2 Is Out! 11 months ago

Just a very quick entry to say that the Swiz Team has pushed version 1.2.0 out the door! This has a few small tweaks and bug fixes, but also adds the ViewAdded and ViewRemoved metadata tags to support the use of the View Mediator pattern. We also...
keywords bug fixes, flex, mediator, metadata tags, swiz, tweaks

Swiz Screencast, with Swiz Console and Sourcemate 3.0 … 11 months ago

I put together a 30 minute screencast on creating a simple Flex application using the Swiz framework. This also shows off some of the great Swiz integration that comes with Sourcemate 3.0, as well as using the Swiz Console for debugging and runtime i...
keywords application framework, debugging, flex, integration, presentations, swiz

Fix for Using Subclipse Keyboard Shortcuts 11 months ago

Just a note for anyone who uses Subclipse within Eclipse to work with a Subversion repository. In the past, you could easily assign keyboard shortcuts within Eclipse for SVN update, commit, etc. In the newer builds of Eclipse I couldn't get this to w...
keywords development, eclipse, general, keyboard shortcuts, repository, subversion

My cf.Objective() Dependency Injection Presentation 11 months ago

Just a quick note that I've uploaded the Dependency Injection presentation which I gave at cf.Objective(). Feel free to let me know what you think! Thanks.
keywords cf, general, objective, personal, presentations