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Good Memory Management When Using PureMVC

Preface There are a lot of good articles already written & screen casts about memory management in Flash Player.  I encourage you to read them first before reading the below.  I cover memory management in a large application using a PureMVC architecture, typically on top of Flex. Unloading Flex Modules Resource Management in AS3 Session Notes Available AS3 Resource [...] (translate)

How to Use RobotLegs On Top of Gaia: Part 1 of 3 – Quickstart

The following is a quick start guide on how to get RobotLegs working on top of the Gaia Flash Framework written by Steven Sacks.  In later articles, I’ll show how to use per-Gaia-page Contexts, a visual example, as well as cover Enterprise scenarios.  For now this should get you up and running in 5 minutes [...] (translate)

Flex Consulting Chronicles #1: You are NOT a Contractor

Preface The following is a set of articles relaying my experiences in Flex consulting with the hope they will benefit others.  While they include general consulting advice, they are specifically geared towards Enterprise Flex software development consulting.  I try to compare and contrast with contracting to give context.  While it’s mainly focused on Flex, there are [...] (translate)

Viaas: Live & Archived Video

Viaas: The best project I ever worked on, with the best client I’ve ever had.  This is where my Agile Chronicles came from. The front-end portion I worked on was built using Flex.  Congrats to the Third Iris team for launching! Here’s a video from Tuesday of Steve & Paul showing off the application in 5 [...] (translate)

AIR App: Powerz – Play Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Faster

This is a long post, so I’ve provided a short version, and content links to relevant sections if you want to skip around. Short Version I’ve built an AIR application in my spare time using Flex that helps you play Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition faster. It took 6 months in my spare time and cost [...] (translate)

Wish List for Flash Player 11

The following is my wish list for Flash Player 11.  My agenda is making my job easier, and making the job of those who need to work with me, such as designers & middle-tier developers, easier.  Additionally, I’d like to do things I couldn’t do in the past, or had to “fake” in the past. Flash [...] (translate)

Rowan Tivonah Warden

Rowan Tivonah Warden (Daughter & child #2), 7 lbs 13 ozs (3.5 kg) was born at 12:04 pm on Wednesday, August 5th, 2009. Mom and baby are fine. We showed her sister, Sydney, some videos and she’s excited to meet her new sibling. (translate)

Fix for Ely’s SuperImage

SuperImage does not abort previous loads in it’s internal Loader. This means those Loader’s no longer have IOErrorEvent handlers. If you do have a case where the image fails to load after you’ve attempted to load a second image, this’ll cause an uncaught exception. This can happen when SuperImage is used within [...] (translate)

Make fl.containers.UILoader Use Image Caching

This is not code I’m proud of, nor have I thoroughly tested it.  However, I know SOMEONE out there will need this, so here it is.  Keep in mind, she leaks memory like a seive, but for a slideshow that shows to the user for 30 seconds, who cares.  If you’re bored, you’re welcome to [...] (translate)

Twitter is How I Obtain Job Opportunities

My first job was obtained via networking with the right people at college.  My 2nd, 3rd, and 4th job was from Monster.com + my email address in my code.  I pretty much stopped working W2 jobs in 2004, and started doing full time contracting & consulting.  Thenceforth to 2007, all my gigs were from networking [...] (translate)

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