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Since I left Adobe last year, I haven't done much work in Flash or Flex, so I haven't written much about them on this blog. (In fact, I haven't written very much about anything -- this poor blog has been somewhat neglected.) But a recent email exchange with Ilan Avigdor and Yoav Moran contained …
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I'm a programmer, so I've always loved plain text, and I've always been bad at doing most things that require me to work with richer formats. For example, if you ask me to create some sort of schematic or diagram, I always spend way too long working on it, and it never comes out looking [...]
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For years, my wife and I have used Microsoft Excel + Microsoft Word to do mailing labels for Christmas cards. The workflow is weird and confusing, but at least we are familiar with it. Since I’m a Google fan and an Apple fan, and feel that both companies are really good at making things …
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One of the most common Flex Builder debugger complaints is that when you bring up the dialog to add a new expression to the Expressions view (e.g. via right-click > Add Watch Expression), you cannot dismiss this dialog using the keyboard alone. The dialog has a multi-line edit box, and if you …
In honor of the date, and in the spirit of the old Obfuscated C Code Contest, I’ve written a bit of code to demonstrate some of the more, shall we say, interesting things you can do with ActionScript.
The code:
package {
import flash.display.*
import flash.text.*
public class [...]
Even if you aren’t a Mac user, please do this to your Flex apps.
Even if you aren’t the kind of person who uses the scroll wheel on your mouse or two-finger scroll on your trackpad, please do it.
If you do, you will make some of your users very very happy.
Suppose you are trying to set up a nightly build system — your developers use Flex Builder during the day, and you are creating an Ant task that runs every night. And you want the Ant task to use exactly the same build settings that are used by the developers.
mxmlc and compc have a …
Going skiing next month. So I started typing some info into the calendar in my iPhone.
I typed Donner, as in Donner Pass. The iPhone “corrected” that to Dinner.
Um, yeah, that’s appropriate.
(I’m also sick of the iPhone changing its to it’s. Its spell checker …
I’m sure this has happened to you once in a while: You’re doing several things at the same time on the computer, e.g. perhaps you click to launch some slow program, and while that is launching you go over to your web browser to kill a few seconds reading something. You try to click a …
