In case you missed it, a couple of days ago an article I wrote a while ago went live in Adobe Devnet
The article summarizes a set of best practices to configure your projects on Flash Builder and Eclipse in general for maximum efficiency and reduced maintenance effort.
As a software engineer joining a new project, I [...]
In this post I’ll explain how you can develop a flex library that automatically initializes itself avoiding developers the hassle of remembering how, when and where the libraries need to be initialized and hooked into the application. This can be particularly helpful for debugging libraries like fxSpy, DeMonsterDebugger, KaptInspect, mrdoob, etc. and extremely useful to [...]
In this post I explain how you can catch unhandled exceptions or errors globally in a declarative mxml-based way using the [Mixin] flex-specific metadata tag.
Starting on FP 10.1 and AIR 2.0 you can capture unhandled exceptions or errors globally. Although you can use these new APIs you should always take care of the exceptions where [...]
This week I’ve been discussing with Alberto from undefined.es different ways to implement a reversible panel. Basically a reversible panel would be a 2-sides panel. In the front part you could have the component or widget and in the back you could have a configuration panel (same concept as in the OSX Dashboard widgets).
One way [...]
Template Components can be quite common in different sort of applications. Maybe the most common one is the Panel, which has a predefined set of components (title bar, status bar, close button, etc) and an specific area where we can instantiate any other component we wish.
In Flex3 you could use the technique explained in the [...]
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 [...]
Sometimes, due to many different reasons, there’re exceptions that happen during the invalidation/validation cycle of the flex SDK. Most times these exceptions end up being unveiled in the very core of the SDK, being not possible to catch them up because their async nature and the place where they happen.
The stacktrace of these exceptiosn, normally, [...]
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