James Chow's Blog (5)

Check this out!

http://www.onflexwithcf.org/index.cfm/2007/10/19/Flex-Roadmap-presented-by-Ely-Greenfield--Videos

MVC for a component development!!!, friggin sweet!!
One of the biggest compliants I had with component development, is that, a lot functionality is automatically inherited when you extended of pre existing components. With an architecure like this, you only bring in the stuff that you want your component to do, and you have seperation of functionaility and view… Continue

Doug Mccune has an amazing project called TileUI for flex, if you haven't seen it yet its conceptually the same as the Bumptop demo that was floating around Youtube a while back.

see the demo on TileUI.com or see doug's blog on

http://www.dougmccune.com/blog/


Its definatly piqued my interest in papervision and have been playing around with it this weekend.
Its pretty awesome stuff and i'm going to try bully my boss to intergrate it into our current project.… Continue

Hey guys quick question for the performance freaks out there.

In our current application, we have a bunch of translations coming from an xml (chinese, french etc), and we load the translations at the start of the application and then set the appropriate mx:labels text property through the ID names. ie

<mx:application preinitialize="init()">

<mx:label id="titlefield" />

private function init():void
{
code="welcome"
translator.getDefere… Continue

Woooh!! been a great week on flex 3!
There is now a profiler as part of flex builder, so we will be able to track object instantiation and event listenerers, hopefully make tracking down memory leaks a hell of a lot easier! plus we are getting framework caching so we don't have to worry about the swf sizes anymore!

exciting times ahead!!
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Heading down to Adove Live in London tommorrow, can't wait for the flex and apollo talks in the developers day sessions! Goddamit I want that flex 2 poster (and the apollo t-shirt)!!

Anyone else heading down?
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