http://dreamingwell.com/articles/ en-us Copyright 2008 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:33:38 -0600 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:20:34 -0600 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.21-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RIAStats.com collects statistics about Rich Internet Application browser plugin deployments and provides the results publicly. The site uses a small javascript, much like Google Analytics, to detect the presence and version of RIA plugins. Like google analytics, any web site... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/07/introducing-ria.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/07/introducing-ria.php Flex Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:33:38 -0600 Using some of my previously covered material, I have created a Flex appication that displays Shapefile (.shp) polygons on a map. This demo includes three different shapefiles that give some information about Brazos County, TX. You'll notice that you can... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/06/displaying-a-sh.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/06/displaying-a-sh.php Flex Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:33:42 -0600 Just for fun, I've created a Google SocialGraph Explorer application in Flex. Google's web spider picks up XFN and FOAF information. The Google SocialGraph API makes that data available through a JSON API. Running Demo Source Code This application makes... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/06/google-socialgr.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/06/google-socialgr.php Flex Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:44:44 -0600 The following was created as an example ModestMaps implementation in Adobe Air. This application shows the basic functionality of Modest Maps. You will need both of the following projects. The ModestMap Library is a checkout from the ModestMap SVN ModestMapAir... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/06/modestmap-examp.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/06/modestmap-examp.php Flex Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:49:12 -0600 Last week I gave a short presentation on available Flex mapping solutions to the DC Area Flex Users Group. We covered Yahoo Maps, ILOG Elixir, and ModestMaps. Below you'll find links to the slides I used during that presentation, in... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/06/available-mappi.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/06/available-mappi.php Flex Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:18:02 -0600 Thanks go to Danny of TheGoldHold.com for a bunch of this information! In ActionScript, there is no method to manually completely remove an object from memory. That task is soley the responsibility of the Flash Player's garbage collector (GC). The... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/05/understanding-m.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/05/understanding-m.php Flex Wed, 07 May 2008 13:59:07 -0600 Out of the box, horizontal scrolling in datagrids with many columns is not smooth; especially if your view has many visible rows. A cheap and easy way around this is to disable "liveScrolling". Without liveScrolling, the datagrid will not redraw... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/05/horizontal-scro-1.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/05/horizontal-scro-1.php Flex Thu, 01 May 2008 12:51:10 -0600 ModestMaps is a BSD licensed project that enables Flex developers to create unique and robust mapping solutions. ModestMaps has the ability to use map tiles from almost any source; with built-in support for Google, MSN and Yahoo map tiles. View... http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/04/flex-3-map-with-1.php http://dreamingwell.com/articles/archives/2008/04/flex-3-map-with-1.php Flex Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:42:02 -0600