So after reading "Professional Cairngorm" I decided that I would try using Cairngorm on my next project. Well that project is is the final stages of completion and I'd like to share my thoughts. The project was a dynamically driven Flex app embedded in a web-browser that could also run on AIR. The application was … Continue reading My first brush with Cairngorm
Tag: as3
Security Sandbox Violation during run and debug after moving or copying a Flex project in Flex Builder
Ugh, this is one of those classic examples of getting sidetracked in your daily work because of some annoyances with Flex Builder. Today I copied an existing Flex Builder project in Eclipse to another directory (new renamed project). I then edited the project settings (renamed the project) before importing the new copied project into Eclipse. … Continue reading Security Sandbox Violation during run and debug after moving or copying a Flex project in Flex Builder
Book Review: Professional Cairngorm
This is a review of the book Professional Cairngorm by Jeremy Wischusen. When describing his motivations for writing this book the author tells a story about experience with Flex/AS3 development, but none of it using Cairngorm, then he had a job interview.... And in typical fashion, when he answered no to the "cairngorm experience" question, … Continue reading Book Review: Professional Cairngorm
Upgrade to Spring AS 0.8 and others
The Spring Actionscript project is maturing and as they do, they keep teasing apart the entire project. So I am now upgrading from 0.7 to 0.8 and if you are to, here is what you can expect. (change log here) a) If you were using the older AS3Reflect library, well now they moved that again … Continue reading Upgrade to Spring AS 0.8 and others
Spring AS & Prana woes with blank prop or constructor args
UPDATE: The bug described here appears to be fixed as of 0.8 So I've been doing a fair amount of work with Spring Actionscript v0.7.1 (formally the Prana Framework). In AS3 you can define methods and/or constructors that take optional arguments. Optional arguments must always be defined after the required arguments and they are noted … Continue reading Spring AS & Prana woes with blank prop or constructor args
Easy Multipart file uploads / POSTs using URLStream or AS3HttpClientLib
When working on a cross runtime Zinc/AIR method method of posting files to a remote server, I came across Mike Stead's URLFileVariable and URLRequestBuilder classes which makes the process of uploading multiple files (or ByteArray's of data) via an HTTP POST much easier. Click here get his code The basic concept is this: assuming you … Continue reading Easy Multipart file uploads / POSTs using URLStream or AS3HttpClientLib
Strange IMPORT failure in Spring AS
So I've started to think about splitting up the main applicationContext.xml file in one of my projects. The current one is getting quite large. Spring AS has the ability to import bean/object definitions from another XML file of your choice such as the following example where my context defines one object "yObject" and then declares … Continue reading Strange IMPORT failure in Spring AS
Prana Framework is now under the Spring umbrella
Great news and I've been hoping for this for quite a while. Spring has taken the Prana Framework under its wing and added it as an official Spring extension called Spring Actionscript. Here is another post about this. When I first got into developing in AS3/Flex this past summer I immediately began looking for some … Continue reading Prana Framework is now under the Spring umbrella
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
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
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