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FLVPLayback component for Flex

By Mike Jones ⋅ February 29, 2008 ⋅ 12 comments

As most of my close friends know, I have a bit of a thing for components. So it will come as no surprise that I have a few new ones to release. The first of these is a video playback component that I have shamelessly called FLVPlayback after the similar component of the same name [...]

Tonight LFPug – Flex development in 60 minutes.

By Mike Jones ⋅ August 30, 2007 ⋅ 5 comments

Has he gone mad I hear you say. He did say 60 minutes. Yes 60 minutes to develop an application. This is the talk / participatory presentation I will be giving at the London Flash Platform user group tonight. Obviously in the true style of Blue Peter there will be a bit of prep and [...]

Flex 2 ItemRenders

By Mike Jones ⋅ June 6, 2007 ⋅ One comment

I’ve been playing around with the Item Renderers in Flex 2 recently (more than usual as it goes). So I thought I’d put my findings and “insights” down in a series of articles. This isn’t a definitive guide, but might prove useful for some :D The first part can be found here.

View Flex <mx:…/> tag classes

By Mike Jones ⋅ March 9, 2007 ⋅ 11 comments

This is probably common knowledge for most but I’m posting it as it just came up in conversation (as I demonstrated it to a colleague). Also for the budding component developers amongst us this be of use and even prove insightful. So, given the title this obviously has something to do with MXML tags. Which [...]

Actionscript 3.0 Component Development

By Mike Jones ⋅ November 9, 2006 ⋅ One comment

Over the past week or so I’ve been posting snippets on creating MXML based components, and will continue to do so. That said I thought I’d post some articles on creating components in Actionscript 3.0 so you can see where the crossover exists and provide information that will, hopefully, provide a rounded view on which [...]