{"id":49,"date":"2007-08-13T15:19:53","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T20:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zingman.com\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2007-08-13T15:19:53","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T20:19:53","slug":"fun-with-flex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/13\/fun-with-flex\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with Flex"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things have been getting interesting at the cartoon factory lately. <\/span>I spent most of July working random little projects, mainly fixing bugs and filling for colleagues who were out on vacation. <\/span>But now I have a new project to get into. <\/span>It’s a mass personalization area for our site. <\/span>And I get to do it in a whole new development envioronment and platform, Flex<\/a>. <\/span>So I’ve been learning Flex, checking out the docs and tutorials, and trying some experiments. <\/span>For someone like me Flex is pretty cool, cuz it’s basically Flash: The Next Generation. <\/span>It’s much more developer- (as opposed to animator-) centric, and shows a heavy influences of J2EE. <\/span>The IDE is the Eclipse platform, and it uses ANT build scripts and all that. Like Flash it’s centered on the ActionScript programming language, and introduces a new markup language MXML, which allows for rapid scripting of UI’s, and some basic but nontrivial behaviors like event mapping and data binding. <\/span>It has a massive amount of pre-rolled objects and common plumbing built in, too.<\/p>\n

So I’m off to a good start, but it doesn’t take long to get to the point where MXML is not sufficient and you have to use good ol’ Actionscript. <\/span>Still, the level of built in support out of the box is pretty impressive. <\/span>I know tutorials are generally designed to show off a product’s strength but this one is pretty cool: <\/span>I built a feed reader for my blog in only an hour or so. <\/span> <\/span>You can play with it here:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/zingman.com\/experiments\/flex\/feed_reader\/main.html<\/a><\/p>\n

And the best thing about it is that the source code<\/a> for entire application is only half a page long.<\/p>\n

So stay tuned, I’ll let you know sometime this fall how the project turns out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things have been getting interesting at the cartoon factory lately. I spent most of July working random little projects, mainly fixing bugs and filling for colleagues who were out on vacation. But now I have a new project to get into. It’s a mass personalization area for our site. And I get to do it … Continue reading “Fun with Flex”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}