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The Setup A "Better than average" associate of mine approached me about contributing a chapter to a Flex book he was cowriting. My chapter was to focus on building Flex Components; something I do a lot of with my company, Flextras . It seemed like a good fit, so I agreed.
Eventually, …
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I'm sure plenty of folks will be writing about the recent 360|Flex conference in San Jose. Once again I think that John and Tom hit it out of the park. But, my opinions are probably biased since I've become good friends w/ both of them. Instead of writing the obligatory ego praising …
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360|Flex is in one week, and there are still tickets available. You can purchase one here and join us for the greatest Flex conferences in the world.
If you purchase your ticket using this URL I get karma points from the organizers.
If you sign up on the Flextras Mailing list , …
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This question comes in from Prateek, about how to tell whether the Flash platform is capable of running the app he wants to run.
I edit his question down a bit to make it more appropriate for the blog post.
I am working on project which needs to build a business Data flow diagram and …
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This question comes in from Pete about the Flex Certified Developer exams.
You got any thoughts on the Adobe Flex Certified Developer exam? Best way to approach it? Is it worth taking? Certification is a tricky subject, for sure. A lot of developers will say certification is …
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I've been working with D for a few months as a personal mentoring client. We chat either via e-mail or Skype and I help him with his personal growth as a programmer. He asked me this question recently on itemRenderers and custom Flex components which made me think, so I'm turning it …
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This comes in from a reader:
I need to make a application which helps in making a Data Flow Diagram, everything is done in it but I need to make lines selectable on that diagram. That means once a line drawn can be re sized. I am using Graphics.lineTo() functions to draw a line but …
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I saw this on a friend's Live Journal and thought it was interesting enough to partake myself:
A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."
There are about …
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This is a slightly modified version of the Holiday letter that T and I sent out. If you didn't get one, but thought you should have, let me know . T wrote most of this because I Was too lazy.
The year has, indeed, been busy. Most of the year was consumed with wedding stuff. In fact, if …
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A brand new tale in the world of Monkey Island is out. After a short walk down memory lane, I sat down to play the Tales of Monkey Island series. Tales of Monkey Island is a single story released as five episodes over the course of six months. I was happy to have an old school style …
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