http://www.intriguemedia.net All things Flex, AIR, Application Architecture and Cayri from Dan Schultz Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:36:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After playing around with languages such as Ruby and Groovy, I've been yearning to loose a lot of the verboseness of ActionScript. I feel that many languages tend to be overly expressive, and hide the concepts of what your code is actually doing. Lets take a simple example of a ... http://www.intriguemedia.net/2010/02/03/making-actionscript-look-beautiful-increasing-readability-and-loosing-verboseness/ Put me in touch with a Flex Engineer that we hire, and we'll fly you and a friend to Hawaii, put you both up in a hotel, AND fly you back. Huh? Sick of making your friends jealous from all those Hawaii excursions?? Well, you have the option to choose ... http://www.intriguemedia.net/2009/12/08/help-dan-find-a-flex-engineer-and-get-a-free-paid-trip-for-2-to-hawaii/ Just wanted to throw a quick update to anyone interested in the state of affairs with Cayri. A while back my host shutdown the cron script that was parsing the VATSIM and IVAO data files. Looking deeper into the problem, there appears to be a very inefficient database query which ... http://www.intriguemedia.net/2009/12/08/whats-happening-with-cayri/ Bill Sanders has a great post on the Memento design pattern over at his blog. After reading it, I thought I'd chime in and post a technique that takes the memento one step further. This approach allows you to serialize a Memento object into a ByteArray and save ... http://www.intriguemedia.net/2008/03/10/saving-flexs-application-state-to-a-database/ For those planning to load a Flex module into your AIR application from a remote server: take a look at this post before beating your head against the wall with this ambiguous error message Error: Unable to load style(SWF is not a loadable module). Basically, loaded SWF's are not allowed to ... http://www.intriguemedia.net/2008/02/22/loading-modulesruntime-css-into-an-air-app/ When handling Flex's collection change events, most of the change types are pretty self-explanatory. For example, CollectionEventKind.ADD is when an item is added to the collection, or CollectionEventKind.UPDATE is when an item's property inside the collection changes. However, there's this ambiguous change type called RESET. The documentation ... http://www.intriguemedia.net/2007/10/06/collectioneventkindreset-wtf-does-that-mean/ Understanding when to use a weak references, versus strong references can be a confusing one. It took me awhile to fully grasp when, and when not to use one over the other. On top of that, there's very little documentation on the LiveDocs about the subject. Under ... http://www.intriguemedia.net/2007/09/24/when-to-use-weak-references/ Lately I've been getting emails from people asking me if they can embed Cayri on their virtual airline's website. So I think it's about time to post a small tutorial on how to do this. The simplest way to do it is by using an IFRAME ... http://www.intriguemedia.net/2007/09/12/embedding-cayri-on-your-website/ I'm currently working on Flex project at Quality Attributes Software that requires the use of a set of tools, similar to Photoshop, to manipulate a drawing canvas. Some examples of tools might be a drag tool, a selection tool, and a zoom tool. I thought to myself, "Ok, ... http://www.intriguemedia.net/2007/08/31/the-state-pattern-in-flex-2/ The heading information for aircraft on the IVAO network has finally been implemented! Thank you for the staff over at IVAO for modifying their server data to supply this information. The difference is truly night and day. http://www.intriguemedia.net/2007/07/25/aircraft-heading-information-for-ivao/