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Cairngorm moving forward 3 years ago

This week Adobe announced that Cairngorm has been moved to from Labs to opensource.adobe.com. So what does this mean for you, as a developer, building RIAs targeting the Adobe Flex platform on top of Cairngorm? It means a lot. The most significant being

Embedding assets with ResourceBundle 3 years ago

Here’s a quick tip you won’t find easily on live docs… Yesterday I found myself needing to embed assets in a .properties file (ResourceBundle) however after looking through the Flex documentation I wasn’t completely satisfied with

XMLAsset: API for embedded XML files 3 years ago

Back in February I blogged about how to embed arbitrary file types in ActionScript (see “Embedding assets with application/octet-stream” for the complete post). That post was inspired by some work I was doing at the time which involved embeddi

AIR Cairngorm 2.0 3 years ago

I have received quite a few emails since the release of AIR 1.0 and Flex 3.0 regarding the AIR Cairngorm API which I developed last year. In the time since I have been working primarily with a modified version of AIR Cairngorm which I used on a number of

Let design guide, not dictate 3 years ago

A good design should be intended to guide implementation, not dictate it, and for very good reason as in the real world of software development requirements and systems are far to complex and dynamic in nature to view a technical design as anything more t

Implementing interfaces in mxml 3 years ago

Most Flex developers are aware that mxml files are essentially declarative representations of ActionScript classes, that is, during compilation the mxmlc compiler generates ActionScript 3.0 classes from mxml files before being converted into bytecode that

Package-level function closures in ActionScript 3 years ago

Package-level function closures are very useful for creating generalized functionality which does not require a class (static methods) or instance of a class (instance methods). Unlike static and instance methods package-level function closures are not a

Passing …(rest) parameters between functions 3 years ago

At some point when developing an application with ActionScript 3 you may need to pass a …(rest) parameter to a subsequent function call, and although at first this may appear to be pretty straightforward, doing so will not produce the results one m

IExpense Online (IEO) 3 years ago

With Income Tax Returns approaching, now is as good a time as ever for me to blog about IExpense Online (IEO). IExpense Online is the creation of my friend and co-worker Michal Glowacki. It is one of those Flex apps that really showcases what can be accom

Web-Based UML Sequence Diagram Generator 3 years ago

If you need to create sequence diagrams quickly and do not have the time to use the more traditional tools; Together, Enterprise Architect, Visio etc. you should take a look at www.websequencediagrams.com. This handy little tool is pretty capable for a f

Eric Feminella

UI Architect specializing in Open Web Platform Technologies http://ericfeminella.com

Excellent article; nice to see their proposed design is practically identical to that which I have been implementing http://t.co/7qMVaLxd@ericfeminella

NJ, USA