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 [...]
TDD Kata are something I’ve been interested in for some time. Carving out some time to get started doing them took a little while but I’ve finally started. If you’re not familiar with TDD Kata they’re basically a way to practice TDD. If you’re not familiar with TDD, take a moment to look into Test [...]
Taking a look at everyone’s “2009 In Review” blog posts is really great inspiration. Looking back over the last year is always worth taking a minute to do. It’s great to reflect on personal growth over the course of a year and take note of our accomplishments. I decided to recall the last year for [...]
Interested in Design Patterns? Check out this article on InsideRIA that explains the Decorator Design Pattern. This article explains the Open Closed Principal and discusses favoring composition over inheritance. These are very powerful OOP concepts that can be leveraged to produce more flexible and robust code. The Decorator is a great pattern to learn after [...]
The San Diego Flash Users Group invited me to give a presentation on Flex Best Practices last night. Thanks to everyone who took the time to join the meeting. Thanks to Kyle and Chris for inviting me to present. Also thanks a lot to everyone who provided all the great feedback and questions. Dan made [...]
In case you missed it here is a link to the article discussing the Strategy Design Pattern that was recently featured on the O’Reilly, InsideRIA website. Writing the article was a really wonderful experience and I’m extremely excited to have another in the works now. More on that later. Here is a snip of the [...]
I wanted to post a link to this article that I had the pleasure and opportunity of writing for Flash Magazine about the Mate framework for Flex. Mate is an awesome framework used for developing applications using Adobe Flex. I’d like to thank both Jens from Flash Magazine and Laura from ASFusion for their help [...]
2007 was an AWESOME year for Flex and AIR. 2008 should continue this trend. Here are several different technologies and other items I plan on monitoring going into 2008. Some of these are bleeding edge, others are fundamentals which we’ve been studying for years. “I’m sure that Flex skills will be one of the hottest [...]
Here are a number of podcasts regarding software development. All of these topics are valid for Flex development. Enjoy! Refactoring Pt. 2 http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode55-refactoring_pt2.mp3 Design By Contract http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode51-designByContract.mp3 Architecture Patterns (Architecture Pt. 4) http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode41-architecture_pt4.mp3 Refactoring Pt. 1 http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode46-refactoring_pt1.mp3 Dynamic Languages for Static Minds http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode49-dynamicLanguages.mp3 Architecture Pt.3 http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode30-architecture_pt3.mp3 Architecture Pt. 2 http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode25-architecture_pt2.mp3 Development Processes Pt.1 http://media.libsyn.com/media/seradio/seradio-episode24-developmentProcesses_pt1.mp3 Architecture [...]
If you are interested in generating UML and/or AS3 code you might want to take a look at the following tools. The price tags range from $0 to $239. Cairngen – Free http://www.ericfeminella.com/blog/cairngen This tool provides AS3 code generation for Cairngorm based Flex projects. You’ll need to have Ant installed and know how to run [...]
