Tag Archives: flex

Carroflow. Another 3D layout for Flex4

This is an experiment I did a while ago when working on the Coverflow layout. I’ve been waiting to find some spare time to fine tune it, to improve it’s performance, clean the code and tweaking in general. But I know that if I don’t push it out now it will be lost in some [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Logging and catching (async) exceptions during invalidation

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, [...]

Hello Gumbo presentation

Here are the slides and sample files I used for the Hello Gumbo presentation I did for the Spanish Flex User group in the context of the Global AUG tour.
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