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Evaluation Questions for Flex Programmers

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February 25, 2010 | | Comments (3)
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Evaluation Questions for Flex Programmers
Sometimes I am asked to interview potential Flex programmers for clients. A common requirement is to assess the candidate's ability to design and develop custom components. Today's blog post is dedicated to the hiring manager who called after regular business hours today and illustrates some great skill tests for evaluating flex programmers, code included.

Mounting compressed folders / Looping back zip files

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February 19, 2010 | | Comments (2)
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Big file systems make computers run more slowly.  This problem is most noticeable for laptops. On a project that I am currently working on, I am using multiple versions of three frameworks: The Flex SDK (source and asdoc), the MicroStrategy...

TODO: FIXME

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January 27, 2010 | | Comments (4)
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Java programmers have long been able to embed notes in their code prefaced with TODO or FIXME. Eclipse summarizes these notes in the Task view for quick, easy reference. FIXME is essentially a higher priority TODO reminder. There is a...

Bashing together Method References

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January 20, 2010 | | Comments (5)
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The ActionScript compiler generates SWFs (Flash applications) by compiling source code for classes that you write and linking in classes from SWCs (libraries) that are referenced by your code. Classes that are not referenced are not included in the SWFI...

Flex Fashionistas

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December 22, 2009 | | Comments (4)
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The software industry has been trendy for decades. Now that the days of green screens are ancient history, and Steve Jobs has contributed black iTurtlenecks to the fashion lexicon, computer fashion is visual as well as intellectual.There are many examples...

Disabling events in Flex

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December 16, 2009 | | Comments (5)
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Flex does not provide a way to temporarily disable event listeners and re-enable them later.  You may want to do this to prevent endless loops.  For example, when some code modifies the selectedIndex of a List, an event is fired. ...

Fixed: "An internal build error has occurred" with FB3 & Galileo

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September 30, 2009 | | Comments (16)
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James Ward surprised us today with a patch for Flex Builder 3 that makes it work with Eclipse Galileo SR1. James solved the dreaded "An internal build error has occurred" problem. His solution was to replace ProblemManager with his...

Flex's coopetition: HTML5

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August 14, 2009 | | Comments (7)
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Flex's coopetition: HTML5
It won't be ready for prime time this year, and probably not next year, but the HTML5 specification is firming up and current implementations suggest a that HTML5 will be a strong platform for RIAs. People familiar with other versions of HTML might assume that Flex would have a few advantages over HTML5: AIR (no browser required) and data services (distributed computing.) The neologism 'coopetition' might be an apt term for the relationship between HTML5 and Flex.

Certified Adobe Flex 3 with AIR ACE

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August 6, 2009 | | Comments (12)
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I've joined the growing number of people with this certification. Candidates are allowed 85 minutes to answer 50 questions when they take the exam. I was given the orientation, answered a short quiz, took the test, reviewed my answers, was...

Enabling compression

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July 15, 2009 | | Comments (0)
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Web servers will transport data more quickly if compression is enabled. The degree to which compression speeds up data transfer is data-dependent; many instances of repeated patterns, such as zeros, are necessary for compression to be effective. You can see an example of the benefits of data compression with James Ward's Census application; click on Navigator, then run some benchmarks with GZip enabled and disabled.

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