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Adobe killed this blog 24 Mar 2013 | 10:20 pm
Adobe killed this blog when they killed Flex. Well I guess Flex is not all the way killed, more like stumbing around with a knife in the neck. So what’s next? I’m breaking out my crystal ball to see w...
Rotation in Flex 20 Sep 2011 | 03:00 pm
Many ways to do the same thing…but which is right? It’s an issue developers face every single day. Here’s one of those issues that I faced this past week: rotating an object in Flex. I was playing wi...
Spark TreeList 10 Sep 2011 | 04:36 pm
Did a little bit of vanilla Flex work recently, and I needed a Tree component to display an object hierarchy. Everyone, by now, hopefully knows that mx:DataGrid and mx:Tree are two of the crappiest, b...
Intro to OCHamcrest 17 Aug 2011 | 05:04 pm
Sometimes I feel like I write more test code than real code. For unit tests on iOS our stack is OCHamcrest, OCMock, and GHUnit. For functional tests, there’s nothing better than FoneMonkey. For this p...
Objective-C: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly 22 Mar 2011 | 01:07 pm
Over the past three years, I’ve been programming mostly Flex and Java, with few other languages sprinkled on top (Javascript, PHP, Erlang). Recently, I’ve made the transition to doing exclusively iOS ...
Nibless iOS App 9 Mar 2011 | 06:06 pm
I always believe in the right tool for the job, so I’m not an Interface Builder hater per se, but I find it a little pathetic how infrequently IB is the right tool for the job. In addition, I’ve found...
Stack and Queue extensions to NSMutableArray 22 Feb 2011 | 05:20 pm
This is all out there on the web, but I’m putting everything here all in one place so as not to forget. Just a simple Stack and Queue implementation as a category on NSMutableArray. It works and it do...
Drag-and-Drop Revisited 15 Dec 2010 | 05:02 pm
It’s time to revisit drag-and-drop in Flex 4. For a long time now, my previous Drag-and-Drop in Flex 4 post has been the most popular post on this blog. I get something like 1,200 pageview/month on th...
Testing Private Methods in Java 19 Nov 2010 | 04:09 pm
I’ve been writing a lot of Java lately, and a lot of tests. We always write tests, right? Alas, no cool record-and-playback stuff like FlexMonkey or FoneMonkey, just plain old JUnit 4 tests with plent...
To the Mountaintop 11 Nov 2010 | 04:00 pm
Back in December 2009, I had the amazing opportunity to teach for a whole week at Boulder Digital Works. BDW had just started that fall and the first class of 12 students1 was just getting started on ...
