Chuck FreedmanI am on some kind of streak with LiveDocs, where I’ve found answers to the last dozen or so hurdles I’ve encountered developing in Flex and AS3. I can’t recount them all, but my latest issue had to do with losing scope with an inline component inside a dataGrid itemRenderer. http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flex/2/langref/mxml/component.html Basically, I have to add [...]
Archive | June, 2007
JetBlue’s inFlight Mashup feat. Google Maps
Having flown JetBlue between Boston and San Jose very frequently over the last 2 years, I had grown accustomed to seeing the very useful flight tracker powered by Mapquest (old flickr photo). For those who have never been on JetBlue (or flew Delta’s Song airline, when it was in service), the flight tracker shows you [...]
On Flash Lite 3, Heavy expectations
The average Flash platform developer is mystified by what Flash can (or cannot) do in the mobile space. There are very few coders in the community that can speak to it, and speak to it well. Flash Lite 2.x came so abruptly, and is being trumped by its successor so quickly, that there have been [...]
Father’s Day of Dreams
I spent my first Father’s Day at the Red Sox game where they completed a sweep of the San Francisco Giants. The game was only but a warm-up to the post-game festivities. The Red Sox invited all fathers and sons in attendance to come play catch on Fenway’s sacred field. And so I, along with [...]
Chase at the ballgame
Chase attended his first Major League Baseball game, seeing the Red Sox play the Oakland A’s. His first trip to Fenway Park will be June 17th, Father’s Day. The match up will be a special one as the Red Sox play the San Francisco Giants in Boston. Should Chase continue to grow up in the Bay [...]
Adobe’s week to remember
It’s called sweeps week and in broadcast television it means the week where networks gear up for the upcoming advertising season. The week is usually marked by the network airing all-new and often super-sized shows featuring the very best content, guest stars and exciting episodes. Unless you’ve been super busy tracking Tony Soprano or Paris [...]
FlashForward 2007: Why your manager may not approve
For the 2nd year in a row, the powers that be have rejected my request to attend one of the Flash community’s most storied, festive and long running conferences. Although the rejection has come from different companies, with different budgets, the disapproval for my attending Flash Forward this year comes for the same reasons. To managers, [...]
