Archive for March, 2006

Flex2 :: Bye Bye StringBuilder

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

Seems as though the previous question uncovered the Adobe engineers plan for around beta3 to axe the StringBuilder class.
Gordon Smith(Adobe Engineer) writes on flexcoders:
“Forget StringBuilder… it’s going away in B3. The player team decided
it didn’t give enough performance gain in enough useful cases to justify
having both String and StringBuilder.”
I had to laugh in a very […]

AS3 :: RegExp Multiline support

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

Well,
My mouth gets going on flexcoders. I asked the question if sometime in the future we regexp freaks could have multiline support with comments. Well, there is about 15 threads on the question but, my question never got answered from Adobe. I guess that is a no.
So I will take my rant to my home, […]

Flex2 - AS3 Wiki

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

For those that share my pre-enthusiasm for all things Flex2, check out what I am doing with the wiki.
I want to make this one of the most comprehensive wikis around for Flex2, AS3.
You just have to wander over there and you will see what I am starting to do. Basically, as I traverse through the […]

What is a Component Developer?

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

This question could seem obvious but, for those who want to read from a source, here is my answer.
The way life is experienced could be described as many subtle layers of experience. For me, since I was a child I loved building things with my hands. This is what you call a visual learner. I […]

TEOWindow - RectMouseSizer

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

I have to say thanks to Manish Jethani, he is a very kind soul,
Simply put before I go to bed, this is 2 components; a mouse sizer and window(yes that is a TitleWindow for now ). The mouse sizer embeds itself inside a UIComponent. That easy.
BTW, The window will have all compositied capabilities like […]