So 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 readingSo I imagine very few people are bothered about this, but for anyone out there as precious as I am about things being ‘just right’ they might be interested in this. I prefer to use the Plugin version of Flex/Flash Builder than the stand alone install, I’m not sure why it just feels better and [...]
Continue readingIf you find that URLRequest works on Windows but not on Mac then simply prepend file:// to your url string. This will then work on both Windows and Mac. var myFilePath:String = “someFile.xml”; var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“file://” + myFilePath);
Continue readingIf you have your remoting service running under SSL you might find when trying to use it from FlexBuilder you get an error along the lines of: Channel.Security.Error error Error #2048: Security sandbox violation: file://localhost/Users/Username/Flex/Projects/MyProject/bin-debug/MyProject.swf cannot load data from https://www.mywebsite.com/remoting/weborb.aspx. url: ‘https://www.mywebsite.com/remoting/weborb.aspx’” Firstly make sure you have a cross domain file but I’m assuming you’ve [...]
Continue readingI keep various workspaces in Flex Builder for things like client projects, tests, examples etc. Sometimes it’s a pain to have to restart FB just to check something from one workspace, so to be able to have two (or more) workspaces open at a time you can launch multiple instances of flex builder by doing [...]
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
Continue readingOkay so I’m a couple of days late on this one, however taking 3 days out of work takes it’s toll on the remaining 2 days of the week when you get back. We got to the hotel on Sunday morning with the best intentions of spending the day doing touristy things, unfortunately because of [...]
Continue readingI just noticed on the 360Flex Europe blog they’re giving away 1Gb usb drives to every attendee. You can then hijack the speakers’ presentation files on the spot. This is a great idea as speakers often don’t get chance or time to send in their presentations and files for attendees to make use of. This [...]
Continue readingAdobe’s Ethan, Ted and Ryan recently gave a big thumbs up to Firebrand an RIA for watching adverts. Niels Bruin responded with what I think is a very good wake-up call to the starry eyed approach to reviewing web apps with lots of transitions, reflections and other shiny bits. Niels highlights some real basic usability [...]
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