ActionScript

Flex HTTPService: When POST is GET

dmarx — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:49:00 -0500

A relatively infrequently encountered nuance of Flex 3's MXML/ActionScript's HTTPService that one may run into occurs when the HTTPService.method public property is set to "

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Bare Bones BlazeDS Object Remoting

dmarx — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:07:00 -0500

In this blog posting, I will demonstrate using BlazeDS for object remoting between a Flex client and a Java EE-based server.

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Proposed New Java Language Features in ActionScript

dmarx — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:22:00 -0500

In a recent blog post, I postulated that many individuals who are most vehemently in support of specific new features for the Java programming language probably owe at least a portion of this opinion to their experience with that feature in a different programming language.

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View SWF Contents with Nemo 440

dmarx — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:08:00 -0500

There are times when it is helpful to see the contents of a generated SWF to better understand what is being included in it. There are several tools that can help with this. I'll briefly summarize some of them here and provide a little additional detail on my preferred tool: Nemo 440.

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ActionScript toString() with Interfaces

dmarx — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:53:00 -0500

ActionScript 3.0 includes many object-oriented features that have an obvious Java-like syntax, but there are some nuances of ActionScript's object-oriented support that are not so Java-like.

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Flex Error Handling: A Simple Example

dmarx — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:23:00 -0500

I have recently read and heard about situations in which Flex error handling is misunderstood. In this blog entry, I'll attempt to demonstrate, with a simple example, how Flex error handling works and attempt to drive out some of the sources of confusion.

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Printing Flex Data Grids

dmarx — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:48:00 -0400

One of the questions that I was asked at Colorado Software Summit 2008 after one of my three presentations of Applying Flash to Java: Flex and OpenLaszlo was if there is a way to print the contents of a DataGrid.

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No Block Scope in ActionScript

dmarx — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:27:00 -0400

One of the things that I most liked about ActionScript when I first began to use it was how easy it was to pick up after using Java for several years.

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Why ActionScript is in the Tiobe Programming Community Index Top Twenty

dmarx — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:26:00 -0400

The June 2008 edition of the Tiobe Programming Community Index highlights the fact (in its introductory text) that ActionScript has entered the index's top twenty. This places ActionScript higher on the index than such venerable languages as Fortran and Smalltalk and above trendy languages such as Groovy, Erlang, and Scala.

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