My blog has been quiet lately due to a number of reasons, but the #1 reason is that I”m working on the AIR: Building Desktop Applications with Flex course for Adobe. Having been an instructor for many years and a developer for even longer, this is a great opportunity for me to give back to …
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November 2, 2007 Tags: Adobe, AIR, Flex, Training
Category: AIR, Flash Platform, Training No Comments 
If I were to create a Top 10 List, which I don”t, this would definitely be my list for “Why you have to upgrade to Flex Builder 3.” I actually got this list from Ted Patrick and enhanced it a little.
Top 10 List:
- With the new code model, search, refactoring, auto-complete you will code
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August 28, 2007 Tags: AIR, Flex, Flex Builder
Category: Eclipse, Flex No Comments
There are many reasons why you might want to add components to containers dynamically. The most common reasons are for performance or flexibility. Either way, having a good understanding of how it works is essential.
First a little background information about what these methods are from
The addChild and addChildAt methods come from the DisplayObjectContainer …
April 28, 2007 Tags: Adobe, development, Flex
Category: Components, Flash Platform No Comments
I”m very excited that Flex 2 was finally released, but not for the reasons you may think. I”ve been working with Flex 2 since the alpha version, so I”ve gotten very familiar with it. So much so that I upgraded my instructor certification from Flex 1.5 to Flex 2.
All you code monkeys, myself …
Read more →June 28, 2006 Tags: Adobe, Flex, Training
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I just wanted to share a little bit with you about the soon to be released Flex 2 courses. Yes, courses!
There are plans for a few courses focusing on Flex 2 application development, charting with Flex 2 and …
June 28, 2006 Tags: Adobe, Certification, Flex, Training
Category: Flash Platform, Flex, Training No Comments
In Flex, you use a validator to ensure the values in the fields of an object meet certain criteria. You can assign each field of an object to a single validator. I”ve used the mx.validators.Validator class, which is an ActionScript …
March 28, 2006 Tags: development, Flex, validation
Category: Flex 1 Comment
In Macromedia Flex 1.5, there is a bit of fun to be had with htmlText in the <mx:Text> component. I was recently building an application in which I was displaying some content from a datasource when, for the strangest reason, …
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