Hi, Recently I gave a GWT overview lecture for Tikal internal crowd. This made me look for guidelines on how to create a presentation that is both informative and interesting to hear. Sure, it depends on the content – that is a given. But it seems there are good and bad ways to create a presentation. [...]

Hey! Last time, we talked about I18N and as promised, this time we’ll discuss CSS handling. Since you can’t really talk about CSS without talking about images, we’ll also mention them as well. Well, as seasoned Flex devs, you know that using CSS in Flex is a brease. You just slap the style tag in [...]

Hello again, This time I want to talk about localization (a.k.a. i18n). As Flex developers, as I assume you already know, all you have to do is create a *.properties file (say Messages.properties) and in it define keys with localized values, like: Then, in the main application mxml, you would define the resource bundles: And [...]

First, a small update: Those who read my last post, here, know that I was planning to use MVP with gwt-dispatch. Well, at the time, GWTP seemed like an overhead and it included a fork of gwt-dispatch anyway so I thought MVP with gwt-dispatch would be lightweight and straight forward. But, it seems GWTP has a [...]

Recently, I had to create a custom component that does live filtering on data presented in a grid. If you are reading this series, you probably know how this can be done in Flex. If you don’t, a quick google search will probably point you in the right direction. Enough to say that in envolves [...]

Well, I have done a lot of reading this week. I also feel like some of the dust has cleared from my Java muscles and bones. First impression is, it is remarkable how ActionScript3 and Java are similar thanks to the EcmaScript standard. The transition from AS3 to Java is just as easy as the [...]

I am a Flex developer. Have been for the better part of the last 4 years. Originally I was a Java server side developer. 4 years ago, Flex was rapidly becomming the next big thing in enterprise application development. I got interested and jumped in. Never looked back since, I love it! First, the transition [...]

When writing mobile applications over Flex 4.5.1, your application may be running in the background, even when pressing the back or home buttons on your device. This may become a problem if your application is doing things using timers, making server calls etc. You can listen for Event.DEACTIVATE and Event.Activate events and stop or restart [...]

When developing mobile applications with Flex 4.5.1 you are always going to have a short time until the application loads. It is very recommended to add a splash screen to your application to ease the wait and improve the User Experience. This can be done by adding the following to the main application tag: 1 [...]

Over the past few months, I have heard that question many times. Many think HTML5/JavaScript is going to replace it, and with Adobe releasing Edge it seemed to be a valid point. Deepa Subramaniam, Senior PM for the Flex team, alleviates those concerns with her post (rather a post on the Flex team blog). It [...]