Category Archives: Development

Making a Maven Out Of A Molehill

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Conrad

If, like me, you use maven to build your actionscript applications and if, like me, you want to play with the molehill 3D API for flash player 11 then up until now it has not been easy. Now however with … Continue reading →

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Using Flex SDK 4.5.0.19786 With Maven

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Conrad

The latest release of Flex SDK 4.5 (Hero 4.5.0.19786) is now available on the flash nexus maven repository. This release was deployed following the instructions in “Installing Flex SDK’s to Maven Repositories”. This release is currently not available from the … Continue reading →

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Installing Flex SDKs Into Maven Repositories

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Conrad

Introduction Automated building of actionscript (flash and flex) applications is becoming more and more important as the Flash Platform starts to mature. It is crucial to have automated builds in order to maintain proper continuous integration and testing practices. If … Continue reading →

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The Problem With Metadata – Part 1

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Conrad

Introduction Recently there seems to be a trend towards using metadata in actionscript to do everything. In particular some frameworks and libraries use metadata for internal application wiring. You just need to look at Parsley and the Cairngorm Navigation Library … Continue reading →

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Flex And The City Source Material

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Conrad

Flex and the City was an excellent 1 day free conference in the centre of London – more please. Here are the slides from my talk on unit testing and continuous integration for Flex/Actionscript. I hope you like it.

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FOTB 2010 Source Material

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Conrad

Morning all. Just back from Flash on the Beach 2010. It was awesome and I will talk more about it later, but for now here are my slides and the full source code to accompany them. I hope somebody finds … Continue reading →

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Are Adobe Listening?

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Conrad

I recently moved to IntellJ for all of my Flex development. This is because I like the very powerful refactorings available with this ide, and the way that it can use POM’s to manage projects. I do still like Flash … Continue reading →

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Using The latest Flexunit with Maven

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Conrad

Maven is an excellent build management tool and it is slowly gaining acceptance in the flash and flex community. If you want to run unit tests from Maven using the very latest build of Flexunit 4 (4.1 beta 3 at … Continue reading →

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ASAXB Metadata Definitions for Sourcemate

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Conrad

I am working on a small personal project at the moment that uses open source libraries: RobotLegs, AS3Signals and ASAXB. Two of these libraries use metadata in the code in order for them to function. As far as I am … Continue reading →

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Flex Leaks Memory By Design?

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Conrad

Currently at work we are involved in investigating modular flash and flex applications. We want to be able to load and unload swf files without really knowing what kind of application that they contain – this seems like a small … Continue reading →

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