What Makes Flex 4 different from All the Previous Versions?
Now that the Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst betas have been released on labs, we are going to see a huge influx of people taking their first look at what Flex 4 has to offer. Many of them are going to be migrating from Flex 3 and they are going to see a lot of changes about how things work. Concepts that were very familiar in Flex 2 and 3 are now overlayed with new options that make cause for...
Read MoreNamespaces in Flex 4 are the correct choice
I got pinged several times this morning in response to Aral Balkin’s post on the use of namespaces in Flex 4. I can’t get his site to load so I can not comment on his post there. But I feel strongly enough about this matter that I wanted to get something out in response right away. Namespaces in Flex are the RIGHT decision. No matter how you look at it using namespaces to reference...
Read MoreUsing the flex 4 language namespace for personal gain
In a previous post, I covered the seperation of the language namespace and the component namespace in Flex 4 SDK. Today I’d like to talk more about what the language namespace is and how it has changed in gumbo. What I want to talk about is the role of the language namespace and why it is special. Elements in the language namespace are elements in mxml that can not be mapped to...
Read MoreGumbo Namespace Changes – Revisited
I posted last week about how the namespaces had been altered in Flex 4 using the gumbo components. The problem with posting detailed information about a product that is so early in its life-cycle is that large changes can be made in the wink of an eye. An example of this is that while the earlier version of the sdk separated the language namespace and component namespace, those items have now...
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