Monthly Archives: April 2010

How not to frag your Flex Team (or ‘How to prevent . actionScriptProperties and other files from getting checked into SVN)

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Fuad Kamal

The situation: you wake up one morning and update your flash builder project, only to get an error message saying there is a conflict in .actionScriptProperties. Images of the rap video Who Broke the Build suddenly rise up out of … Continue reading →

Posted in Adobe, Flash, Flex 4, RIA | 3 Comments

Capital Flash Camp 2010 : A brief recap

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Fuad Kamal

I attended Flash Camp in DC today and though I would share my initial impressions, given that we were at 360 Flex not too long ago and a lot of attention is being given to the upcoming Flash & the … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Adobe, Design, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Flex, Flex 3 -> Flex 4 Migration, Flex 4, Illustrator, Photoshop, RIA, Software Architecture, UXD, Wireframing | 3 Comments

in review: ‘Crush It!’ by @garyvee

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Fuad Kamal

If you’re already on top of social media, using LinkedIn, twitter, Flickr, blogging, etc., and if you already have a terrific work ethic and do what you love, this book has absolutely nothing to offer you. Well, Gary is an … Continue reading →

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Flex 3 Word Wrapping Does Work Afterall

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Adnaan Ahmad

Turns out that word wrapping in Flex 3 datagrids does work after all.  After adding wordWrap=”true” to Flex 3 datagrid columns to no effect and much fustration I came across this solution/explanation by Bruce Phillips.  In short, you need to … Continue reading →

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Two-way Data Binding in Flex 4

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Fuad Kamal

In Flex 3 we created a data binding expression using curly braces, like so: <TextInput label="textInput1" /> <TextInput label="textInput2" text="{textInput1.text}" /> In Flex 3 if you wanted to make the binding two-way, you had to make a second binding expression. … Continue reading →

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