Flash vs. Flex
Introduction One of the most common questions that seem to be still floating around the web development community is "Which program should I use for Flash development?" That question is best answered based on the goals of your project. The Question The first question to be asked to help answer the question of which program should be used is simple. Is this project for a full flash website or is this project for a web based application? If it is for a web based application then the answer is to use Flex. Now if the project is for a full flash website that ...
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Wordpress, Drupal, and Joomla. Sounds like spaghetti again.
I am overly tired of dealing with heavy site customizations that must take place within these "frameworks" such as Wordpress, Drupal, or Joomla. It is very depressing for me because I have being forced to write bad code which is exactly what has to be done to make a "successful" module or reusable feature for any of these three frameworks. ...
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ColdFusion Application Multi-Environment Configuration
A common problem that I and I'm sure many others have had in the development process of web applications is handling application configuration for different environments such as local development, staging, and production sites. For quite some time now I have had this problem licked in my ColdFusion applications by using a SettingsManager class I had wrote a couple years ...
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Flex Image Smoothing Made Easy
As the number of Flash websites that I work on increase, so does my need for convienance components in Flex. I figured I would start with one of the most commonly needed features of all which is an easy way to enable smoothing on the mx.controls.Image class. My extended version of this class offers a new property called "smoothing" which ...
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Creating Modular Flex Applications
Recently as I continued my miserable everyday struggle with Flex and it's incredibly slow IDE Flex Builder, I have made yet another discovery that of course is not documented about Flex. I am involved in building high end flash sites everyday and thus far on all of them I have created them as modular style Flex applications using Flash to ...
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RemoteObject for Flash CS3
Like a few other people I found myself dealing with the headache of transition to Flash CS3 applications from Flex every now and again and the one thing that gives me the most trouble is not having the same ActionScript 3 wrappers in Flash CS3 that I do in Flex such as the RemoteObject class for server remoting. There have ...
