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25 June 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Create Better User Interfaces

“Building a successful application in Adobe Flex involves many roles, each with a different focus and requiring distinct strengths. Teams are often comprised of designers and developers who assume different roles during the lifecycle of creating a successful Flex application.”
A great UI article from EffectiveUI. Check the link here to see the multi-focused team approach.

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24 June 2008 ~ 0 Comments

event.dispatch();

In the earlier versions of Cairngorm you need to dispatch events through the CairngormEventDispatcher instance. Now self dispatching events are added in Cairngorm2.2.
Old method
var evt:NavigateEvent = new NavigateEvent();
// Dispatch through the dispatcher
CairngormEventDispatcher.getInstance().dispatchEvent(evt);
New method
var evt:NavigateEvent = new NavigateEvent();
// Event dispatch itself
evt.dispatch();
These are the changes between Cairngorm 2.2 and Cairngorm 2.1(from adobe labs)

Removed dependency on Flex [...]

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23 June 2008 ~ 0 Comments

JibJab

Just another cool flex website. JibJab is a collection of flash cartoons.
http://beta.jibjab.com/

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18 June 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Wordle Art

I just played with wordle to make a cloud of the things I like. You can see the result below.

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