Flex Object Composition Car Example

I read a post called “Getting a bunch of components that work together to know about each other” on “The Joy of Flex” blog by David Coletta and figured I would share how it settled in my brain. First off cohesion and coupling of classes through inheritance or composition are very fluid things. Many modeling of the real world can be described differently through objects depending on your prespective and usage. Composition, David calls it “containment”, is a very basic part of Object Oriented development. I will use a Car for my example and try to example David’s thoughts as I understood them. Now my take on this might be off but thats the joy of software engineering.

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One More Reason to get Flash Player 9

I read the post at beedigital.com and followed it over to Secunia.

Here is an excerpt:

The vulnerability is caused due to unspecified memory access errors within the handling of SWF files and can be exploited via a specially crafted SWF file

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AdvancedForm Component (Undo,Redo,Reset)

The Advanced Form component provides Reset, Undo and Redo functionality.

It came up recently about how to clear out a Form after submitting data to a backend. The basic idea was to reset the form to the initial values. Well, then I got thinking that the solution to that problem also lends it self to make a history of changes. Thats where the Undo/Redo features come into play.

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