If you’ve been reading along you’ll know that…I haven’t posted anything in awhile. Hopefully this post will make up for that a bit. Today I’ll be writing about using custom chrome (sometimes called ‘skins’) with AIR. A quick Google search will pull up quite a few resources on this but I noticed that most of [...]
After laying down the plan for this project I spent quite a bit of time with the setup in Flex Builder. If you’ve read my post, Flex Builder Optimization and You, you’ll know that I’ve done a bit of reading on setting up Flex projects for efficient work flows, particularly compile times, and I’ve come [...]
As anyone who’s spent some time writing software knows: planning is paramount. Mapping out all the features of an app and how they fit together just makes life so much easier. Since Beer Near Here is a personal project I also factored in my own goals that don’t necessarily have anything to do with how [...]
One of the coolest aspects of Beer Near Here, in my humble opinion, is the desktop version. Beer Near Here is primarily a website about information, specifically, displaying information in a legible manner. That sort of site doesn’t mesh well with a cool, out-there design or lots of Flash or Javascript effects, which is why [...]
Beer Near Here is finally done! I’ve been working on this site and AIR application for a while now and I have to say it feels good to have it done and out there. So check it out at beernearhere.net or read a bit about it here.
So you’ve been working on a Flex project for nearly a year and you have a few dozen modules and even more Actionscript classes and suddenly you realize that the project is taking an eternity to compile. Three minutes 26 seconds in my case. This snuck up on me too as compile times gradually became [...]
On a recent Flex project I needed a component that would allow me to move selected items in one list to another list. A Google search for “flex list to list component” turned up nothing, nor did “flex enhanced list component”. Undaunted I decided to roll my own which I am now sharing with the [...]
For about six months I’ve been on again, off again developing an Xbox 360 game using Microsoft’s XNA framework and Garage Game’s Torque X Engine. I’ve finally gotten things together and begun serious work on the game. Track my progress at blog.warkittensoftware.com.