Over the weekend I spent some time reading a book that has been on my list for some time. “Beautiful Code” is a collection of chapters, written by master programmers and seeks to give the rest of us “mere mortals” an insight into how these folks think and approach software projects. I first learned of [...]

I ran into the need to draw lines at runtime connecting custom conponents that were already displayed in a flex application. I thought: “That’s easy use the drawing API…” but was surprised when I drew a line that it didn’t show up! Turns out it did show up but was buried beneath everything else even [...]