No not me silly!  I have an acquaintance who happens to be a Flex developer who happens to be looking for some work. Heath Dill hrdill@gmail.com Senior Flex/AS/Java developer Looking preferably for Flex/Actionscript 3.0 consulting work, though also available for Java work.  Telecommuting preferable, though some on-site in eastern/central MA, southern NH, and RI is possible. 2.5 years of Flex [...

Reality Check I have been developing in Flash for more years than I can remember and Flex since its inception.  Its amazing how with that many years under my belt, a professional title of “Sr. Flex Consultant” and a pretty good comprehension of the “engine” of AS3, I still don’t know some basic things. Case in point: I [...

My buddy Mike Orth and I just wrapped up some pretty cool features for the MediaCoreLib.  Rather than write something orignal, I will just steal some of what Mike wrote on his blog: MediaCoreLib - Here’s an easy way to play rich media content (audio, video) inside Flash or Flex and manage it all in one [...

A buddy of mine asked me the other day if I had any thoughts on normalizing value objects coming in from various services.  For example say you have at least 3 different objects that all share similar properties but aren’t quite named the same thing for convenience sake.  Let’s assume that your service guy is [...

[Another quick note to myself] I have always thought of flex developers as being categorized in two camps (at least this has been my experience).  You have the: those who focus on mostly Flex charting and those who focus on everything but Flex charting. I fall into the latter category.  I just never decided to look into charts.  Everytime [...

Doing component development is a challenging task, especially if you are trying to stick within the guidelines established by the MX framework.  So frustrating is this challenge sometimes, it makes you want to tear clumps of hair from your scalp. I found this while digging around trying to extend mx:ComboBox: /** * [...