Well the festive season is over and after a much needed break I’m winding up ready to get back to work and tackle 2012. This is my attempt to reflect and summarise 2011 and some thoughts on looking towards 2012 and what it may entail. 2011 New company website At the beginning of 2011 we [...]
Continue readingPaul Boag is: … on a mission to convince the web design community that working with clients can be enjoyable, constructive and creates outstanding websites. One of his key messages is that the traditional approach for building a website is essentially “big bang” development. Every few years a website is overhauled and redeployed to great [...]
Continue readingCompeting on features is the road to feature bloat, poor usability and increased frustration for users, developers and project stakeholders. I’ve been taking an increased interest in the “tech startup” trend that has been occurring over the past few years and this concept is especially pertinent for anyone trying to make a success of a [...]
Continue readingMoov2 aficionado Peter Keating has finally started blogging, so far posts have been a very thorough introduction to unit testing, test-driven development and project best practices for Flex. Definitely worth a look so check it out over at peterkeating.co.uk.
Continue readingAt Moov2 we have a lot of really exciting projects on the go and in the pipeline. We’re expanding our skill-sets and opening up more and more new opportunities. Coupled with one of our developers taking sabbatical we have a couple of new positions available and are looking for some hyper-enthusiastic devs to join our [...]
Continue readingOkay so it’s a link bait, sensationalist title, but that fact I’ve recognised that fact makes it okay yeah? Anyway like I said you’re doing handlers wrong… or rather, to stop with the hype-generating, FUD-like statements; If you’re waiting for RPC/Async handlers to return in order to update your application’s interface then allow me to [...]
Continue readingRIAs are an amazing platform upon which to deliver data to users. Data for reading, editing, deleting, organising, digesting and processing. We have the opportunity to present data in a vast array of new, exiting and visually appealing ways, offering faster and more fun methods of interacting with it. However, getting this data can be [...]
Continue readingSo I was trying to get the latest files for a Flex project recently and I had an error about a missing stylesheet. I of course took the standard approach to fixing this and promptly bitched at the foolish developer who neglected to commit the crucial element… Alas turns out I was the fool and [...]
Continue readingI’m slowly getting my head around IoC containers and want to note a few useful links for future reference. As things tend to go in my geeky exploits I read about and learn these ideas from the .net world, who often have picked things up from the Java world, I then try to find out [...]
Continue readingI hope to find some time for a more thorough post on this but there is a new Code Coverage tool available for Flex
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