Apple is a sensational company. They innovate like nobody else and continually break new ground in design and functionality. The iPhone has raised the bar for everyone else in the mobile device space and that’s a great thing for the consumer. With Google’s open source mobile OS announcement and the coming 700Mhz auction in January, [...]

By now everybody knows that Adobe released the AMF spec and  a reference implementation of java remoting and messaging called Blaze DS. Ted Patrick explains it all here if you have been on Mars recently. When I first started studying Flex I was amazed at the functionality offered by what was then called Flex Data [...]

Now that the work-a-day world is slowing down for the holiday weekend I have some time to catch up on some reading and writing. A New Year’s resolution of mine is to get my mind around (REALLY around) all the available techniques to make your Flex app standout from the crowd. The term I like is to [...]

I live in the Colorado mountains. The ski industry here is off and running this year with many feet of recent snow at the resorts but today its Denver’s turn. I was scheduled to be on-site with a client today in Denver but the news is showing freeways as parking lots which made me (as [...]

I was reviewing some training material the other day and noticed that the “x” and “y” properties of a particular component were typed as Number, not int or uint as expected. I thought: “You cannot locate something at a fraction of a pixel, why Number”? I opened the source code for UIComponent which is “the [...]

A workmate asked me to look over some code he was writing that used  <mx:HTTPService> to grab some XML to use to populate a DataGrid by databinding the DataGrid to an ArrayCollection that contained the results of the RPC send() call. This sounded simple enough but it turned out to have a couple of gotchas. [...]