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. When modeling the real world you can describe the same things quite differently depending on your prespective and usage. ...

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One More Reason to get Flash Player 9

[lang_en] 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 I wonder what “specially crafted SWF file” means, lol. I guess it was funny at the moment. Reminds me of the code some of my friends at school wrote during a ACM practice problem. ...

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AdvancedForm Component (Undo,Redo,Reset)

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. You can set the history change size with the “undoHistorySize” attribute. The rest is taken care for you. What ever values are...

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