Flex

• Feb 18 2009 - decision making : flip a coin then check your gut ... I once heard an interesting anecdote about how to make a difficult decision between two paths. When you find yourself spinning, alternating between one choice and then the other, it can be helpful to simply assign each choice “heads” or “tails” and flip a coin. When you reveal what side the coin landed on pay attention to your emotional reaction… are you relieved or are you disappointed?  Try it sometime, it really can work.
• Feb 12 2009 - Flex data services limitations (FlexBuilder generated wsdl code sucks) ... The post saved me a ton of time. It’s a bit embarrassing for Adobe in my mind to ship something this buggy. I was seriously running into these issues within an hour of trying to connect Flex to our .NET Soap based services. “MyMethod can’t return an object of with the type name MyMethodResult.”You’re fracking kidding me right?  Wow. (and there are more along these lines) http://lukesh.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/very-important-limitations-of-flex-data-services/ After fighting with the above and other bugs I was rewriting a lot of the generated code from FlexBuilder and it was just pointless.
• Jan 31 2009 - QWERTY Myth and the entrenchment of Flash ... This is a great article about the myth of how the best technology doesn’t necessarily win. Granted, sometimes the best technology does not win, but there is a persistent and pervasive sense that the populous often chooses the “VHS” over the far superior alternative. The article addresses the VHS vs Beta debate directly as well as the victory over Dvorak by QWERTY. To encourage you to read the original I won’t reveal the clever arguments made.
• Dec 21 2008 - FlexBuilder 3 First Impressions ... Where we’re coming from So at the beginning of the year I was tasked with evaluating a number of technologies for RIA development for the next evolution of my company’s product. Up to this point we had been relying extensively on ASP.NET forms with a traditional post-back model that was responsible for a lot of wasted time and bandwidth. We’ve leveraged a lot of Ajax in the past few years, starting with simple fixes like trees and list based controls that use load on demand and going all the way up to full fledged single page applications that consumed purely services.
• Dec 17 2008 - FlexBuilder 3 Controls ... Controls included with FlexBuilder 3 out of the box below… check out some third party components here . Notes will be updated as I actually get a chance to put some of these to use. FlexBuilder 3 Controls Control Name Notes AdvancedDataGrid  Professional version only + multi column sorting + grouping + tree view + printing support – Still no paging support out of the boxAlertControl  not sure how this gets grouped with these other controls as it is not an explicit control but a static method “show()” which can be used from where ever.