Sean Monahan

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 to the conclusion that it’s super, extra important to setup Flex projects well.  Aside from the usual upshots of enhancing efficiency and the like, it’s been my experience that a well organized Flex project will load and compile significantly faster that one that’s been poorly organized.  Trust me, I learned the hard way.

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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 developing BNH Desktop was so refreshing.  Yes, the app is still primarily about displaying information to the user but in targeting AIR I’m free to embrace all the cool animations and effects offered by that platform.

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The hardest part about being a Coug fan this season is knowing that they can play like this.

When I first got my MacBook Pro one of the first things I did was…type my password incorrectly. When this happens Mac OS provides some great visual feeback with a shaking effect that simultaneously indicates something went wrong and shrugs off the password much like how dogs dry themselves off after a swim.  To me, this was very cool.  Now, in the great tradition of the web I’m ripping off Apple’s idea to give you a Flex shake effect.

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 world.

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