Through My Lenses

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]