[lang_en] Adobe recently ran some ads Federated Media sites that did not go over well on winning brownie points with Flex coders. You can pick up the post by Ryan here. The cool thing was Jeff Whatcott of Adobe picked up on the blog and decided to ask the Flex community for ideas. Good job on Adobe’s part for that one. I decided to give it a try, I am a Flex Developer not a marketing guru so don’t laugh, please (hehe). My...

[lang_en] Ryan’s article about Java making a comeback was interesting. But it made me think of a key figure in the Java RIA space that has been competing way before Adobe Flex. Its called Nexaweb. A big part of the RIA space is timing. It just now that the internet as a whole are embracing RIA applications like never before. Interesting to think that Java has been in this space longer than anyone else. Will they redefine themselves or...

[lang_en] Have you ever tried using ORDER BY in a query of queries in ColdFusion, well come to find out its case sensitive, and I need it to be case insensitive.I have a query of queries in ColdFusion. In Windows my original query sorted it self out just fine, because it was listing the underlying File system items which are case insenstive. When I deployed the code on Linux of course the original query sorts differently. The code actually...

The Flex object composition car example I recently created got some updates. I changed CompositionBase into a interface instead inheriting the class (thx Marcus for the heads up on that one). I also went through all the code and style the source code just like the Flex source. You find the code with ASDoc compliment comments and Flex styled sections. With these updates the set of Car examples classes provide the following benefits: Object...

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. ...