Hotwire: Quick and dirty event wireups in AS3

Hotwire: Quick and dirty event wireups in AS3

Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by lukesh.

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Recently, I was tasked with building a quick AS3 project outside of our normal Flex framework projects. It was refreshing to just write a plain and simple AS3 project outside of the team environment where I could explore a few things without impacting the team by breaking our current project standards. One thing I’ve been [...]

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Thoughts On Sproutcore and App Dev In General

Thoughts On Sproutcore and App Dev In General

Posted on 02. Jan, 2010 by lukesh.

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I’ve been intentionally learning how to develop using Sproutcore for about a month now, so I’ve been more aware of the buzz about it, and I have to say that most things I read are missing the point about the value promise of Sproutcore.

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ArrayCollections, WebORB deserialization, .NET generics

Posted on 09. Oct, 2009 by lukesh.

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The problem is that unless you refer to the class “MyChildType” somewhere in your project, the Flash runtime has no idea that the “MyChildType” exists. Typically, you’d refer to this class in a view or something, so this problem is very esoteric and you most likely won’t encounter it, but if you do, keep this in mind.

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Immutable Strings, Arrays, Lists, and dataProviders PSA

Posted on 12. Jun, 2009 by lukesh.

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First, click here to view a quick demo of the problem. (Source here). When the lists load, roll over one of the items labeled “something” and notice the hover behavior. The problem is, that these Lists are bound to and Array and an ArrayCollection of Strings (which are immutable in AS3). Likewise, if multiple entries [...]

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HydraFramework Source on GitHub

Posted on 21. May, 2009 by lukesh.

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HydraMVC has become a part of HydraFramework. The source is on http://github.com/lukesh and you can read more about the framework at http://hydraframework.com. More later!

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Rawr! FlexGrowl Component Available

Posted on 04. Apr, 2009 by lukesh.

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Want to growl in your Flex apps? Try this junk. FlexGrowl is a component that allows you to create growl-like notifications in your Flex apps

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HydraMVC 0.1.3 Released

Posted on 01. Apr, 2009 by lukesh.

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…And it seems to be the magic number for now. I’ve been using this version for a while and it seems stable and complete enough to actually use f’real. If you don’t know what it is, click here to read about it and get it. Besides all the obvious goals for HydraMVC (read about them [...]

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Workaround to Flex 3 bug SDK-14806

Posted on 31. Mar, 2009 by lukesh.

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I think I have a decent workaround to this old bug, where you run into formatting problems if you want to use a custom borderSkin on a Panel or Alert. (I especially wanted to use a skin created with Degrafa.) In addition, I wanted to set up something where I could create a generic Panel [...]

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AdeptivMVC

Posted on 03. Mar, 2009 by lukesh.

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Basically, you know those times where if you have to trip over that creaky stair *one more time* you’re going to go totally ape and remodel the entire downstairs? That’s exactly what happened.

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