Whether you’re upgrading because you’re using BETA versions that change rather frequently or upgrading to the next major release, you don’t want to lose all your hard work invested in configuring your setup. Here’s how I handle it and hopefully it’s useful to you. If you have other cool ways to persist workflows between upgrades, …
FITC Amsterdam 2010 Recap
First, this will be a rather lengthy pictorial of the last few days here in Amsterdam. For those that have never been, I’ll also share my insights and tips on visiting the city since I’m a seasoned pro now, LOL (4th time). The City Amsterdam is a really cool city. It hasn’t changed that much …
Using a Custom AdvancedDataGridHeaderRenderer to Display a Custom Image
You decide to use an AdvancedDataGrid to display your data and for one of the columns you would prefer to use an icon instead of a text label to indicate the kind of data this column represents. First step is building the renderer. You can use either MXML or ActionScript but for this example we’ll …
Joining the Adobe Community Professionals for 2010
Formerly the Adobe Community Experts program, this is a collective of awesome individuals who exhibit expertise in various Adobe product areas from Acrobat to Photoshop, Flash, Cold Fusion, Flex, AIR and many, many more. Comprised of community leaders, this group has a worldwide presence and expounds the virtues of Adobe to the masses through the …
GitX Tweaks: Commit View
So, after thinking about my most recent updates, I decided I wanted to change the way that the commit view looks but just slightly. This is my 1st pass on some things I’d like to have available via the toolbar. Would also like to tweak the view selector buttons, revise remote selection and add toolbar …
GitX Update: Remote Selector
Previously, I implemented toolbar buttons where each button was tied to a specific remote repository. This was/is fine if you’ll only be working with one or two hosts but becomes cumbersome when dealing with multiple hosts.
Enter the NSPopUpButton. By switching to this UI element I’m able to allow a user to select a remote from …
Introducing Opticon Runtime Debugger
Opticon is a runtime debugging console useful for Flash/Flex developers. It’s simple to start using in your projects. To use, follow these steps after installing the application:
1. Launch the application
2. Click the Settings button
3. Click on the SWC icon to add the OpticonConnector to your project’s build path
4. Replace your trace statements with one of …
Double-headed Arrows with GraphicsUtil
I recently ran across this awesome utility class, GraphicsUtil, created by Noel Billig. It allows the ability to draw lines with an arrow on one end using the drawing API in AS3. This proved useful for a project I was working on. In addition to its default behavior however, I needed the utility class to …