name: Jesse Warden age: 32 employer: self-employed (Warden D&D / Web App Solution) location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA when did you start flash/flex/AIR/AS dev? Started Flash and ActionScript in 2001. Doing our projects in Director didn’t work for a variety of reasons, namely Designers couldn’t use Director with me, their designs were limited, and animations looked [...]
Last night I gave my Intro to TDD and TDD Kata presentation using Adobe Connect to the Bloomington/Normal Illinois Rich Internet Applications Adobe Group. The presentation was recorded and is now available online for anyone that wasn’t able to attend the live session. I’ve also uploaded the slideshow with all of the info, quotes, links, [...]
Here’s an exciting new book that is full of great information regarding developing components in Flex 4. The book is very in depth and a really great read. I have yet to finish the entire thing but am slowly making my way through it. The beginning of the book is an overview of Flex and [...]
I’ll be giving a presentation on TDD for the Bloomington/Normal, IL Rich Internet Applications Group on May 25th at 6:30PM (Central time). It will be broadcast via Adobe Connect so you watch it from anywhere. It will also be recorded for playback at a later point in time. Here’s more info about the presentation: This [...]
So with the release of Flash Builder 4.5 and the continuing popularity of the Android platform and devices there are a number of books coming to market. Here are a few books that should help you get up to speed and learn more about developing for Android with the Flash Platform. I had the opportunity [...]
One of the most useful sessions I attended at 360Flex was Rob Rusher’s session on localization of Flex applications. All the sessions were great but this one applied directly to a project I’m working on. In the session Rob gave an overview of the BabelFX framework and explained how to get it set up and [...]
Looking around the web and searching google resulted in no quick, easy and simple results for a basic drag and drop example for a Flex 4 Group. There’s plenty of drag and drop examples but all the ones I located were way too complicated for my needs. (What’s up with all the examples being super-over-the-top [...]
Over the past few weeks I started a couple different polls to gather data regarding the experience and pay for Flex development. You can find links to the polls in this post but I’ll also give a quick breakdown of what the data has revealed! There are many things to take into consideration regarding the [...]
SourceMate is a really cool plug-in that can be used in Flex/Flash Builder. SourceMate provides some really useful functionality that isn’t included by default with Flash Builder. I’ve been using SourceMate for a little while and there are some really powerful, time saving features. There are some handy functions like comment/uncomment all for classes. This [...]
Over the last week or so I added ten new Motivational Programming Posters to the collection. They were posted on Twitter throughout the week and so far have received pretty good feedback. Thanks everyone for checking them out!! They are really fun to make and I’m usually laughing while making them from beginning to end I’d like [...]
