Category Archives: Historic

I’ve been working with Flex since 2007, starting with version 2.0.1. Also, I’ve been working with Flex 4 for a few months. So, recently, when I went looking for a Flex 4 book, I wanted something that gave me depth and clarity around the latest API’s and features. Chet Haase’s Flex 4 [...] Continue reading →

What is Chimp?
Chimp is a simple component for doing role based permissions in Flex.  It uses metadata and a generic ArrayCollection of permission strings to display the proper components for a given set of user roles.  You can find more info about the project at: http://www.gorillalogic.com/chimp.
Flex 4 Update
Shortly after I posted Chimp in 2009, Adobe [...] Continue reading →

James Ward and I have updated our Dzone Refcard on using BlazeDS & Spring.  You can check it out at: http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/flex-4-and-spring-3
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Dzone.com / JavaLobby has published my ‘A Deep Dive into Flash Builder 4‘ article.  I wrote it over Christmas on the beta 2 release of Flash Builder, so hopefully everything is still up-to-date now that Flash Builder is finally out for production.
Give it a read and let me know if you have any feedback.
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At Gorilla Logic we are proud of using our FlexMonkey tool to test the enterprise Flex applications we are building, but my curiosity has been growing at how others in the community are testing their Flex & AIR applications.

What are you using (FlexMonkey, FlexUnit, Mercury QTP, Selenium, RIATest, FunFX, etc)?
Have you run into major pitfalls [...] Continue reading →

Like many Flex developers, I came to Flex development after a long stay in the Java world. For many years, Java and the surrounding community provided an exciting technical playground. Overall, the community gave developers like myself an amazing set of tools and an excellent group of thought leaders. Yet, we can [...] Continue reading →