Topic: Articles by Paul
Flash Builder 4.5 tip: Use a custom FlexUnit framework
I’ve been getting into unit testing and test-driven development a lot lately. Flash Builder has pretty nice support for FlexUnit, which I find to be the easiest way to include testing in my development workflow. However, one problem is that Flash Builder ships on a different schedule than FlexUnit, so when a new FlexUnit version […]
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Sample and links from “PlayBook App Development Hands-on”
Yesterday I presented a hands-on training session at 360|Flex on developing AIR applications for the BlackBerry PlayBook. The session focused on two major areas: getting the tools set up for development, and using the QNX UI components and framework. (I hardly talked about Flex development for PlayBook at all, since that’s fairly similar to Flex […]
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“Wrap selection” - more “Burrito” template goodness
I already mentioned that I really like the new templates feature in Flash Builder “Burrito.” Last night I discovered another nice feature in the templates. I was looking through the template variables and noticed one called ${line_selection}. This variable allows you to select some lines of code and then choose a template to “wrap” around […]
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Useful Flash Builder “Burrito” keyboard shortcuts
Last night I was working through “Uncle” Bob Martin’s “Bowling Game Kata” (thanks to John Lindquist for the link). I found myself going to my mouse a lot, doing things like switching between class and test case files and right-clicking to run tests. After slowing down too many times, I dug in and found a […]
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Simple ActionScript 3 animation examples
Last week I spent a little time teaching some of the newer developers in our office about scripted animation in ActionScript 3. I put together a few simple demos for them, and I thought I might as well share them with the world. Note that these are basic demos so if you know pretty much […]
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Changes
Unfortunately I can’t give this topic the time it deserves right now, but for those of you who are interested I wanted to let you know of some “significant life changes” that are happening to me. Summary New job. New city. New house. Moving tomorrow. Offline for a week or two. Don’t say anything important […]
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Data “paging” in AIR SQLite
I got an interesting question a few days ago that I thought I’d share: My application has thousands of records in one particular table that I need to populate the display with. I was wondering if I can implement paging to speed up the retrieval of those records? In fact he specifically wanted to know […]
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I am 360|Flex (and so can you!)
The next 360|Flex conference is coming up quickly — March 7-10, 2010 in San Jose, California. As I’ve been preparing for the conference and reading some of the things other people are saying about it, I’ve been reminiscing about past 360|Flex (and other) conferences I’ve been to, and about how much they’ve impacted me professionally and personally. (Hint: a lot.)
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Thoughts on multi-screen, multi-context app development
Around 8 months ago I was asked to start thinking about the now emerging (particularly from a Flash Platform perspective) world of multi-screen application development. What are issues to consider? What guidance should we offer? It turns out that my thinking on that topic isn’t going to become anything in the Adobe documentation. So I’ve […]
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New project: AIR SQLite utilities
I’m excited to announce that I’m “officially” releasing a new open-source project that I’ve been using on personal and work projects for over a year. For lack of a better name, I call it my “AIR SQLite utility library” The code currently contains one major piece of functionality (well, two different variations on one bit […]
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