I recently found the need to implement an Abstract Class in a package I was writing for an SDK. When I searched out the methods that others had used in an attempt to “fake” an Abstract Class I felt they fell short. Most of the other solutions involve protecting the constructor of the Abstract Class [...]
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A quick non-Flex related post about some great tools. Recently, I’ve found myself using Mac OS, Linux, and Windows all fairly frequently. I switched to Mac OS as my development OS not long ago. QuickSilver was recommended to me not long after I made the switch. I found QuickSilver to be one of the huge [...]
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If you’re coming to the Flex world as a java user one thing you might miss is static code blocks. Until today I didn’t think this was possible in Flex/AS 3, but after a conversation with a coworker (Jim : psalterego.com) I found out static code blocks are possible. First off, let me give a [...]
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My colleage, Sean Christmann, lead developer on the eBay Desktop application I’ve been working on, was quoted several times in an InfoWorld article about Adobe’s new Apollo framework. Original text from: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/01/HNadobeapollobeta_1.html MARCH 01, 2007 Adobe to launch Apollo beta later this month Program would allow users to run Web apps while offline By Elizabeth Montalbano | IDGNS [...]
Continue readingAs I was stepping into the tech blog posting arena I had a major concern: How to deal with posting source code. Here are the solutions that I came up with: A simple solution is to surround your source code in a PRE tag. (PRE tag defined.) PRE Tag source code: <pre> package com.eui.sourcecodeblog { [...]
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