Developsigner

Man for so long now I’ve been trying to figure out what keys the symbols in my Textmate bundle correspond to, elevator? Finally I found this post by Don Rodney that explains it all (thank you, thank you, thank you). NOTE use the function key to use enter (above return). For those of us that have keyboards without number pads.

I have worked on my share of large projects and I have seen businesses make many heinous mistakes in judgement but the one that I am getting the most tired of is the uninformed deciding to build a large application without using Flex. I know what you’re thinking because I have heard all the arguments and I mean every single one of them.

No you can’t write a smaller framework that has layout, styling, accessibility and language support

The answers are:

• No you can’t write a smaller framework that has layout, styling, accessibility and language support
• Yes you can have just as much control over look and feel
• You might not know Flex but if you know Flash you can pick it up FAST
• It is a framework for building applications in Flash, what was it you were building again
• Well you should learn how to use Flex Builder then, you will never go back, it is worth it

My Delicious bookmarks as art

I have been wanting an excuse to build a custom component ever since 360 | Flex last month. I decided to create a drop down palette using standard Flex controls instead of coding one from scratch in Flash. It was much easier than I expected it to be. I was able to take a ComboBox control and pass it a TileList as it’s dropdown list.

Demo Link

*sexy Black & Blue icons courtesy of icondrawer

Recently I had a meeting with my CTO about a cool component I was working on and of course when he went to view it he got the default Flex app light blue screen and no component. “Hey this is great!” he said mockingly, then right clicked on the blue void to show me the movie not loaded message in the top of the flash player context window. The best part was that I had just sent the link to a client. Needless to say I was a little concerned. Most of us developers upgrade Flex Builder as soon as a new patch or update comes out and since we are in the thick of it all day long we never witness what the average user were to see. I recently just upgraded to Flex Builder Version: 3.0.205647 which also installs Flash Player 9.0.124. What I didn’t realize ( and feel a little dumb about ) is that it also updates the HTML template file to specify a new minor version required.

What I didn’t realize ( and feel a little dumb about ) is that it also updates the HTML template file to specify a new minor version required.

So now any average human viewing your app will see the light blue screen of Flex-dom without any content duhn, duhn, duh.