I recently made a number of updates to my collections API which include some minor changes to the existing code as well as a few additional classes and interfaces which have been added.
The most significant updates involve three additional operations whic
Since the initial release of Cairngen 1.0 there has been an amazing amount of interest in the project and your feedback has been very encouraging. In addition I have received a number of extremely valuable customizations from community members, many of wh
When building localized Flex applications with ResourceBundle there are a few tricks you may not be aware of which can come in handy should you need them. I have had quite a few people ask how multiline values can be specified in a properties file. This
Reflective programming is a very common, powerful and expensive software development paradigm. In most modern programming languages reflection can not be utilized to modify private members of an object, which is to be expected. However in certain circumst
When developing browser based Flex application SharedObject provides just about everything one needs to facilitate local persistence of application data. SharedObject is restricted by certain rules governed by the Flash Player Security Model, however it i
Awhile back one of the guys on my team discovered an interesting way to embed files in ActionScript using the “application/octet-stream” mimeType with the Embed metadata tag.
When using the Embed tag it is not common to explicitly assign a spe
Out of all of the APIs I which have developed and published as Open Source to the Flex community the AS3 HashMap API has by far been one of the most popular. Additionally, based on my Firestats totals, the posts I have written over the past 2 years relate
One very important (yet often overlooked) design guideline which I advocate is the Principle of least knowledge. The Principle of Least knowledge, also known as The law of Demeter, or more precisely, the Law of Demeter for Functions/Methods (LoD-F) is a
When developing application in Adobe AIR which utilize the SQLite API it is often useful to have a quality SQLite editor available, especially during development and testing.
I have tried many different SQLite editors, most of which were quite good, howev
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