Archive for March, 2010

Flex4 Coverflow Layout

Flex4 has shipped and it comes with a ton of new features that open lots of doors. One of my preferred features in which I see a tremendous potential is the new layout mechanism.
As an exercise to better understand the details of the new layout mechanism I played a couple of days creating some layouts [...]

Some thoughts on constructor and method parameters

I consider a best practice to keep to the minimum the number of arguments a method accepts. As uncle Bob explains in his “Clean code” book we should always favour niladic (no arguments), monadic (1 argument) or dyadic (2 argument) methods and avoid whenever possible methods with more than 3 arguments, if not possible we [...]

Using BlazeDS from a Flash or AS3-only project

Some weeks ago I had to develop a light version of an existing Flex application. The Flex application consumed lot of Java logic through services exposed by BlazeDS’s RemoteObjects.
The goal was to be able to consume, from the new application, the exact same Java Services that the Flex application was consuming through RemoteObjects without [...]