This is a review of "High Performance Web Sites" by Steve Souders First off this book is written by someone who knows just a tad about front end client web interfaces and their performance, being the performance chief at Yahoo he has quite a bit of experience under his belt. Myself having done a fair … Continue reading Review: High Performance Web Sites
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Advanced HTTP operations in Flex outside of AIR
I am currently pretty deep into a Flex/AS3 RIA desktop app project whereby I have several advanced needs. Such as to download partial files to the desktop (byte-range requests), execute HEAD requests to get remote file sizes, execute multipart POSTs, talk to some REST apis, and finally be able to read any write HTTP headers..... … Continue reading Advanced HTTP operations in Flex outside of AIR
Review: Release it!
This is a review of the book "Release it!" by Michael T. Nygard Go get this book. That is the short of this review. This is an excellent book, mainly targeted towards architects however I think developers should read it too. The author does an great job throughout the book showing how small issues can … Continue reading Review: Release it!
Local IO write performance in Zinc improved
Looks like the folks over at MDM have improved their local IO write support (windows only) with the release of v3.0.10 of MDM Zinc. This is probably due to Adobe AIR and people's complaints about the lack of better support for writing ByteArray data to disk in Zinc. Note that this new feature is only … Continue reading Local IO write performance in Zinc improved
Review: Interface Oriented Design
This is a review of "Interface Oriented Design" by Ken Pugh. I don't have a ton to say about this book, it was a fairly quick read at about 200 pages. If you have a lot of experience with OO, the concepts presented within it are nothing that startling, however they may serve the reader … Continue reading Review: Interface Oriented Design
Revew: The Definitive Guide to Terracotta
This is a review for the book "The Definitive Guide to Terracotta" by Terracotta, Inc. For several years I had known about Terracotta when the software was still closed source, and generally did not give it a look. Once Terracotta became open source my interest rose and I wanted to give it a look over … Continue reading Revew: The Definitive Guide to Terracotta
Review: Pro Ajax and Java Frameworks
This is a review of "Pro Ajax and Java Frameworks" by Nate Schutta and Ryan Asleson This book was written in 2006 and is targeting client side developers who want to add Ajax to their Java backed applications. The book tends to cater more towards an audience who likely wants an overview of various Ajax … Continue reading Review: Pro Ajax and Java Frameworks
Threads in AS3, Flex, Actionscript: Flash, AS3, Flex multi-threading
[Updated 10/27/2009: The PseudoThread framework described below has been incorporated into the AS3-commons project: Concurrency Module. You can check out the latest source by clicking here or read an updated HOWTO located here.] Ok, those of you who know AS3 and the Flash Player are saying "Wait a second, there is no threading in AS3", … Continue reading Threads in AS3, Flex, Actionscript: Flash, AS3, Flex multi-threading
Local disk IO write performance in MDM Zinc
UPDATE: MDM Zinc's recent update of 3.0.10 added a new method for writing binary data from a ByteArray directly (windows only), please read this post for the latest info. NOTE that the below is still relevant for other platforms (Mac/Linux) I have recently been working on local disk IO in MDM Zinc using mdmScript as … Continue reading Local disk IO write performance in MDM Zinc
How to detect if your SWF is executing within the MDM Zinc runtime
Been poking around with writing a runtime abstraction layer for Flex/AS3 apps. This would provide support for writing Flex/AS3 desktop app code once and deploy it as an AIR app or any other swf2exe like product such as Zinc. (or FP on the web, -minus the IO features) So how do you detect which runtime … Continue reading How to detect if your SWF is executing within the MDM Zinc runtime
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