The Joel Test

If you write software for a living, then you should by now have read and inwardly digested this.
I’ve just started to manage a guy who’s been working on his own for a while developing some quite important apps using Microsoft Access.
He scores 1 – he’s got a quiet office.
I’m amazed that business software is still [...]

AIR…Doh!!

We followed the lead-up to the release of AIR with interest.
“It gives you access to the local filesystem” they said.
Well, we need access to the ports – either a parallel or a serial port will do – we’re not fussy. We need to send a text stream out to a Zebra label printer.  We [...]

XML.removeChild()?

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It really took us way to long to figure out how to remove an XML node. Try using Microsoft’s XML DOM component – that implements appendChild() and removeChild() as part of the IXMLDomNode interface.
The XML class in ActionScript has the appendChild() method. So, we thought, where’s the removeChild() method?
It doesn’t work like that [...]

Hello Everybody!

Yes, it’s yet another Flex Blog…
But the main reason for me writing this Blog is so that I can remember all the Gotchas (and hopefully some solutions ) to the many problems I’ve had to face dealing with Flex. Not that there are may of them to be fair, but there are [...]