http://dreamingwell.com/articles/ en-us Copyright 2011 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:55:02 -0600 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:10:43 -0600 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.34-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Android and iOS support launching applications via custom URL schemes, or in other words, apps can be launched by the user clicking a link or button other than the icon on the start screen. This feature allows developers to add... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2011/06/flex-mobile-cus-2.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2011/06/flex-mobile-cus-2.php Flex Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:55:02 -0600 Flex SDK 4.5 for mobile shipped with an IconItemRenderer that is extremely efficient at showing static images in a list. However, most enterprise and data driven applications are going to need to show dynamically created, interactive, and data driven... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2011/06/flex-mobile-dis-1.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2011/06/flex-mobile-dis-1.php Flex Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:34:39 -0600 Flex SDK 4.5 mobile view navigator framework does not make use of the multi-touch features of the Flex 4.5 SDK. As stock, the framework provides 'navigation' buttons and an api to switch between views. The video above previews and... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2011/05/flex-mobile-cus.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2011/05/flex-mobile-cus.php Flex Tue, 31 May 2011 16:37:24 -0600 Adobe's Flash player run time environment does not support multi-threading; except for very specific external interactions. Flash player uses an ancient frame-by-frame single threaded monolithic execution model. This means that drawing in the UI and handling user interactions are directly... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2011/01/flex-threading.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2011/01/flex-threading.php Flex Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:39:57 -0600 The majority of the work in this project was taken directly from MaximPorges.com article on Scrolling Large Data Sets in Flex Charts. The code posted in that article works very well for horizontal scrolling, but not at all for vertical... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2010/04/scrollable-flex.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2010/04/scrollable-flex.php Flex Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:29:53 -0600 ActionScript Doc (ASDoc) is a utility that ships with the Flex 3 SDK that generates documentation based on ActionScript code; its very similar to JDoc and JSDoc for Java and JavaScript. While ASDoc does have many handy features, one major... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2009/12/excluding-direc.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2009/12/excluding-direc.php Flex Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:03:52 -0600 ASDoc's plethora of command line options can be frustrating to contend with. Here's an easy way to generate ASDocs for any project in Flex Builder 3.... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2009/09/generating-asdo.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2009/09/generating-asdo.php Flex Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:38:11 -0600 MemCached is a free "distributed memory object caching system" that can work wonders on your application's responsiveness and server load. If your application does not need "instantaneous" data calculations for every user, you can use MemCached to greatly reduce your... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2009/02/creating-a-scal.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2009/02/creating-a-scal.php PHP Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:42:33 -0600 RIAStats.com collects statistics about Rich Internet Application browser plugin deployments and provides the results publicly. The site uses a small javascript, much like Google Analytics, to detect the presence and version of RIA plugins. Like google analytics, any web site... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/07/introducing-ria.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/07/introducing-ria.php Flex Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:33:38 -0600 Using some of my previously covered material, I have created a Flex appication that displays Shapefile (.shp) polygons on a map. This demo includes three different shapefiles that give some information about Brazos County, TX. You'll notice that you can... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/06/displaying-a-sh.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/06/displaying-a-sh.php Flex Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:33:42 -0600 Just for fun, I've created a Google SocialGraph Explorer application in Flex. Google's web spider picks up XFN and FOAF information. The Google SocialGraph API makes that data available through a JSON API. Running Demo Source Code This application makes... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/06/google-socialgr.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/06/google-socialgr.php Flex Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:44:44 -0600 The following was created as an example ModestMaps implementation in Adobe Air. This application shows the basic functionality of Modest Maps. You will need both of the following projects. The ModestMap Library is a checkout from the ModestMap SVN ModestMapAir... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/06/modestmap-examp.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/06/modestmap-examp.php Flex Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:49:12 -0600 Last week I gave a short presentation on available Flex mapping solutions to the DC Area Flex Users Group. We covered Yahoo Maps, ILOG Elixir, and ModestMaps. Below you'll find links to the slides I used during that presentation, in... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/06/available-mappi.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/06/available-mappi.php Flex Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:18:02 -0600 Thanks go to Danny of TheGoldHold.com for a bunch of this information! In ActionScript, there is no method to manually completely remove an object from memory. That task is soley the responsibility of the Flash Player's garbage collector (GC). The... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/05/understanding-m.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/05/understanding-m.php Flex Wed, 07 May 2008 13:59:07 -0600 Out of the box, horizontal scrolling in datagrids with many columns is not smooth; especially if your view has many visible rows. A cheap and easy way around this is to disable "liveScrolling". Without liveScrolling, the datagrid will not redraw... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/05/horizontal-scro-1.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/05/horizontal-scro-1.php Flex Thu, 01 May 2008 12:51:10 -0600