Here’s a great way of repeating backgrounds in your Flex containers using Degrafa:
http://bjw.co.nz/developer/flex/83-background-image-repeat-in-flex-3
(If you’re on a mac you’ll probably have issues extracting the Degrafa swc, if you do head here for a solution: http://mattguest.com/archive-utility-annoyance)
I’ve been working with SQLite quite a bit on my current AIR project and came across this interesting article about how to get the best performance from your AIR app’s SQLite database:
While working on an AIR application recently, (built using PureMVC Multicore & Fabrication), I had the need to swap different instances of a view component within the one mediator.
Swapping them over is easy enough:
myMediator.setViewComponent( instanceOneComponent );
The only problem is if you are using “Reactions” to handle your ui events you’ll notice they no longer work. Continue reading →
Here’s a little trick to allow Charles Proxy to debug your Adobe AIR AMF-based applications whilst developing on your localhost.
In the last post we set up the groundwork for our application. Now let’s start building our Zend MVC application and hook it up to a MySQL database.
Use the SQL code below to create the F1 Drivers table we’ll be accessing later on.
CREATE TABLE `f1_drivers` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`name` varchar(250) default NULL,
`team` varchar(250) default NULL,
`points` float default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=8 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
INSERT INTO `f1_drivers` (`id`,`name`,`team`,`points`)
VALUES
(1,'Jenson Button','Brawn-Mercedes',21),
(2,'Rubens Barrichello','Brawn-Mercedes',15),
(3,'Jarno Trulli','Toyota',8.5),
(4,'Timo Glock','Toyota',10),
(5,'Nick Heidfeld','BMW Sauber',4),
(6,'Mark Webber','RBR-Renault',9.5),
(7,'Sebastian Vettel','RBR-Renault',10);
The guys over at “Flash & Flex Developers Magazine” have made their previous issues available for download:
www.ffdmag.com/prt/view/back-issues/issue/1015.html
Definitely worth checking out!
I’m a big fan of making the development process as efficient as possible. Using frameworks, components, svn or whatever to get the job done on time. And where better to shave the seconds, minutes, hours off than at grass roots in the FlexBuilder Editor.
Taking a bit of time to learn the shortcuts can really help speed up the development of your code and even help with your RSI. 
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I’ve been working on a flash project at work recently using FlexBuilder to edit the code instead of the Flash IDE. I had a problem though when I checked out the project out at home on a different machine. The code completion and auto-imports weren’t working and unrecognised AS3 imports, such as “flash.net.URLLoader” were being removed constantly while I was working! 
Solution – Make sure you include the Flash AS3 classes in your project:
Et Voilà! You’ve got CS3/4 code-completion and auto imports for your actionscript project.
After scouring the many tutorials & posts following the release of ZendAMF I felt a lot of the examples were somewhat lacking. I couldn’t find a reason to ditch AMFPHP and start using ZendAMF.
Being new to the Zend framework, the bootstrap setup was certainly a lot more complicated than getting a AMFPHP service up and running. I decided stick with it though and found some real gems to help out in the production of my remoting applications. Over the next two posts I’ll build a simple ‘F1 Driver Standings’ application using Zend, Flex & Flash. (Updated to work with Zend 1.9.6)
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