Author Archives: Jorge Solis

About Jorge Solis

Flash-db director

Data structures

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Jorge Solis

We use often data structures for whatever application we build, but since ActionScript itself offers them as base classes (Array, ArrayCollection,Vector, Dictionary) you probably never stop to think about them. I was forced when working on casual games, since speed … Continue reading →

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Free Flash ebooks from O’Reilly

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Jorge Solis

We find an interesting offer by O’Reilly for all the Flash community. In fact is not a book, but three books targeting different aspects of Flash platform. What’s New in Flash Player 11  This book will detail the various enhancements, … Continue reading →

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Robotlegs demo application

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Jorge Solis

RobotLegs is one of the more recents frameworks based on Dependency Injection like Parsley or Swiz, but with a strong emphasis in a Model-View-Controller arquitecture, that is suggested as the pattern of choice (but is not mandatory) RobotLegs use the … Continue reading →

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PureMVC demo application

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Jorge Solis

PureMVC is probably one of the oldest ActionScript and Flex frameworks. It was born using ActionScript, but quickly was ported to other languages like Ruby, Python, C++, PHP or Java. His name expose clearly his matrix: it follows Model-View-Controller pattern, … Continue reading →

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Mate demo application

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Jorge Solis

Mate is a is a tag-based, event-driven lightweight Flex framework that could be used mixed with others like Cairgorm. It uses injection to pass reference to the views declared in a central EventMap, where you also declare event handling. You … Continue reading →

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Tour de Flex 4.5

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Jorge Solis

Looking in how to create a pop-up in a mobile application I return to a classic demo for those working in Flex, “Tour de Flex”, that recently was relaunched with new examples targeting Flex 4.5 version. There are many things … Continue reading →

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Cairgorm demo application

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Jorge Solis

Cairngorm was my first framework when I begin with RIA development. Probably his difficult name and the tight support of Adobe help in his early adoption. Cairngorm was borrowed from J2EE and has been in use now for a decade … Continue reading →

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Pass parameters to Spark Skins

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Jorge Solis

Sometimes we face the case where we should skin multiple components in a similar way, but with a small difference. Yesterday I should skin 6 spark Panels with different header color. Spark panels doesn’t support headerColors style as his Halo … Continue reading →

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Parsley demo application

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Jorge Solis

short story: Parsley gives me the more long stack errors I have seen, I.e I have received 183 lines in the stack for a fail in instantiating the User… so if you come from Java you’re at home Parsley is … Continue reading →

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BlackBerry Playbook Tablet with Flash

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Jorge Solis

Blackberry announced some time ago support for flash in his new tablet “Playbook”. This supply in part the low quantity of native applications opening a wide range of options from the flash world. Also as we stated in previous posts, … Continue reading →

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