Monthly Archives: March 2009

Today, I posted an interview I did with Doug McCune on InfoQ.com. His personality and passion for development came through in his encouragement for developers to build “cool shit.” I love the sentiment, as I so often get trapped in trying to bring business value and forget that sometimes software development should just [...] Continue reading →

When googling for solutions to any number of Flex challenges, I commonly find posts that include monkey patching as part of the solution.  Monkey patching is basically replacing a Flex class with your own.  For example, if you want to change something in UIComponent you can create a mx.core.UIComponent in your project, and the Flex [...] Continue reading →

I just finished a write up for InfoQ on the Flight Framework. Flight compares themselves to Cairngorm, without all the “boiler-plate” code.  The association with Cairngorm is a turn off for me to seriously consider using Flight, as I still don’t understand what value Cairngorm provides (old post 1 & 2).  That doesn’t mean I [...] Continue reading →

I have updated my Flex security component called Chimp.  I was working on implementing a suggestion to use the includeInLayout property instead of removing children, and found a number of issues in the process.  I have expanded the sample application to help test the component.  Also, it should give a pretty good picture of how [...] Continue reading →

It’s true!  At least to the same extent Mr. Bush is to blame for the current financial mess, and speaking as someone who is terrified by both of the extremes in American politics, he does deserve some of the blame.
For those of us in our early 30’s, there is little cause to be concern for [...] Continue reading →

I’ve posted a simple component, called Chimp, for doing role based permissions in Flex through metadata.  You can check it out at: http://code.google.com/p/flexible-chimp/. The quick overview is that you provide Chimp the user’s roles on start-up and then add meta data to the components for filtering what the user can see.
Here are the setup instructions:
1) [...] Continue reading →