Waldo Smeets .com on Rich Internet Applications

Alistair of IterationTwo is presenting on the I2 experience in building Rich Internet Applications with Flex: Unit testing, refactoring, continuous integration and more.
09:15 Session starts, Ali is just in time (I guess he was at Matt his session as well ;-))
09:16 Ali warns his Scottish and that we need to remind him to speak slow (and [...]

Matt Chotin is hosting the first official session of MAX 2004 on Flex and large data sets. He presents on the principles behind his large dataset applications that he has posted on his website.
Live log (I am not typing over the slides here, that would be too much):
08:00 Matt starts off with a powerpoint presentation [...]

This week I helped someone to port an excisting Flash RIA to Flex. One of the ’struggles’ was porting the custom components. There are some things you need to be aware of when doing this because they are important for SWCs used by Flex, whilst it’s not important for Flash IDE-only SWCs:

Custom SWCs need to [...]

I always though that custom CellRenderers for a List had to be defined by cellRenderer=”{myCellRenderer}”, especially because this is how it’s done in the samples explorer. However, the curly notation is not necessary and the benefit is more functionality as a bonus.
So it’s better to define cell renders by cellRenderer=”myCellRenderer”. The advantage of this is that [...]

Quick links to Flex DevTalk I and Flex DevTalk II recordings, as promised.

The free series of Flex DevTalks in Dutch start this Friday at 10.00 in the morning. This first session is an introduction to Flex and we’ll build our first application. For more information and registration visit www.macromedia.com/nl/events.

I’ve seen developers with an HTML/JavaScript background that move into MXML make a very common mistake: they all call a function inside a script block but outside a function definition. This causes the Flex compiler to throw an error. This post explains what is causing this and helps you to avoid this in the future.
First [...]

During the meetings that I have with Flex MXML developers there are several questions that pop up regularly. One of the questions is how one can create a conditional interface element in Flex. Or even more specific; how to define with script whether f.e. something should be a list of checkboxes or a list of [...]

Note to self and anyone else who is about to make the same mistake; if you have bound a Flex Data Model as DataProvider to a UI component, you must not change any items in that Model by approaching the item directly. The correct way to do so is by approaching the item through the [...]

What shall I say, better late than never Updating the Remoting ActionScript library to the Flash Remoting AS 2.0 classes has been a very lengthy process for Macromedia. So I think everyone in and outside Macromedia is relieved that the stuff has finally been released.
By the way, there’s also a Remoting Connector Component included and some very [...]