Anyone know why it’s been so terribly quiet on the Flex 4 nightly builds? The most recent showing are 4.1.0.16076 in stable and 4.1.0.16032 in nightly builds from May 12. There were more recent ones, but they’ve been pulled for some reason. I’m actually using 4.1.0.16248 currently, but, again, that build is no longer available [...]

Just had a couple hours of frustration trying to determine the reason Flash Builder 4 beta 2 suddenly refused to launch. The splash screen would just sit there for, well, beyond my patience. That accounts for a few minutes, incidentally. Eventually, I discovered the issue. Seems my SwcCache folder had grown to… get this… 138GB. [...]

Workload has been pretty heavy over at SuperNova, where I play the role of Sr. Programmer. Looking ahead, it just gets heavier. While that’s excellent news, it does also mean that we are looking for another developer. Perhaps you, dear reader, fit the bill. Here’s what we’re looking for: Contract to hire position. Must be [...]

So it appears there haven’t been any Flex 3.x SDK nightly builds since April 8th. I would have thought the momentum gained by the bug quash in May would have continued a bit longer with so many new contributors. That and nightly builds before the event were much more regular. I know Flex 4 SDK [...]

A friend of mine was working with RichTextEditor and discovered an annoying htmlText issue. It seems that copying htmlText from the RichTextEditor to a text area produced an additional line break. Dig the code below: < ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx :Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="vertical"> <mx :String id="savedHtmlText" />   <mx :RichTextEditor id="rte" change="savedHtmlText = rte.htmlText"/>   [...]

Like many others these days, I’ve been let go from my job. Happened on New Year’s Eve. While I’ve decided to take it easy for a week or so, I am looking. Just updated my resume and tossed a copy on this blog. I can also be found on LinkedIn here. Just figured, for completeness, [...]

When really concerned with performance, should you explicitly cast an object or should you use the “as” operator? Outside of circumstances where the “as” operator must be used because of constructor arguments or the potential for them down the road, the answer is that it depends. Different classes have different costs. If performance is crucial, [...]

I may feel I’m too busy to post much these days, but a collection of undomesticated equids couldn’t drag me from the voting booth tomorrow. Hope to see demonstrated by the numbers that everyone able to vote feels the same. Not shying away from exposing preference (by leaps and bounds), I submit an unfunny but [...]

Pretty simple but I like the effect. Draw, then hit the Sketch button.

Seems apple isn’t a big thermo fan. Or is it the other way around? http://youtube.com/watch?v=HHVJslNrvs0