Through My Lense

The why?!?
CF request/response applications
Flex RIA
persisted data is not refreshed automatically
stateful approach to managing data – no more sessions
refreshed through manual client interactions or AS
Flex Real-time Apps
persisted data is refreshed via interactions w/ server
stateful approach w/ server side sync
refreshed through polling, long polling, or RTMP
data management service – life cycle service – provides data sync between [...]

What is skinning?
graphical – quick and easy files from Creative Suite. nice for distribution (Scale Nine)
programmatic – not style-able with CSS, animation limited to component itself, inflexible when acting as a generic skin
stateful – not really a skinning style
programmatic skinning provides the power to create a skin that is just as flexible, if not more, [...]

Release of Axiis as open source Data Visualization Framework
Caution: Alpha level code. Beta coming in a few months
What?
more than just a set of charting components
lightweight framework used to assemble and development charting functions
way to describe patterns in data
Why?
Client needs are normally quite specific leaving the developers feeling like they need “one more feature” to fully [...]

Other Resources:
Alex’s Blog – http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
Peter Ent’s Blog – http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent
Spark Containers – http://blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/pdf/sparkContainersAndRenderers.pdf
What is an itemRenderer?
a list renders data usually in a label
property on list classes typed to take an IFactory
Types of ItemRenderers
2 main types: custom and drop-in item rendereres
3 ways to create them:
Custom MXML Class
Separate Actionscript 3 file
Inline with mx:Component tag
Custom IR
Most basic is just [...]