http://www.screenshot.at/blog This blog is about Flash, Flex, RIA related stuff Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:38:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Joa Ebert has written a Dependency Injection framework as part of his funk-as3 library. Basically his API is orientated on Google Guice and does not use reflection, which is great, because reflection is pretty expensive regarding performance. And Performance matters. We reduced the start-up time of our application from 8 seconds to ... http://www.screenshot.at/blog/2012/01/31/dependency-injection-without-reflection/ With the heavily discussed announcement from Adobe about their commitment to Flex they crossed the line were it seems very likely that the Flash platform will not survive in the long term. What Steve Jobs started, seems to be completed by Adobe themself. This is somehow weird and bizarre because they own ... http://www.screenshot.at/blog/2012/01/19/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-rich-internet-applications/ Jack Viers has posted a great performance comparision between Flex 3 to Flex 4 components. Unfortunately the Flex 4 components suffer from big performance decrease (163% slower). But just read the article it is very profound discussed there. http://www.screenshot.at/blog/2011/03/31/flex-3-vs-flex-4/ Have you ever tried to use usePhasedInstantiation? It is not so easy, as you will see... What is usePhasedInstantiation? This is a property at the LayoutManager which is used to decide if the methods for the 3 Lifecycle phases (validateProperties, validateSize and validateDisplayList) are deferred with 3 (half-)frames or if they are ... http://www.screenshot.at/blog/2011/03/23/not-easy-to-use-usephasedinstantiation/ Great news!: Unity will support the Flash platform in future! Wow that is really an exciting move! I have had recently a look to Unity in search for alternatives to Flash, and was wondering why they are not supporting the Flash Player. They already supports a lot of different platforms, but ... http://www.screenshot.at/blog/2011/02/28/unity-will-support-flash-platform/ After working 10 years with Flash and 3 years with Flex I am still not convinced that the Flex Life Cycle is necessary. I discussed this topic already with many developers but nobody could really give me a satisfying answer. So I spread out my thoughts now to the public in the ... http://www.screenshot.at/blog/2011/01/20/flex-life-cycle/ After quite a long time the project i have joined last November in now online: http://www.cmcmarkets.co.uk http://www.screenshot.at/blog/2010/08/01/cmc-spreadbetting-application-is-now-online/ Thibault Imbert from Adobe has published a whitepaper for performance optimization, with a lot of useful information specially targeting Flash Player 10.1 and mobile content. Some parts sounds somehow strange, like the recommendation to avoid Event Dispatching as for every event an object has to be created. On the other hand ... http://www.screenshot.at/blog/2010/02/15/adobe-whitepaper-for-performance-optimization/ If you ever had some strange problems with styles in Flex, you might want to know how styles are internally handled and implemented. Ok this post will not cover too much of all the stuff going on there, but a bit of the basics how styles are finding their way from ... http://www.screenshot.at/blog/2010/01/08/a-question-of-style/ I just found a promising anti-theft software for my brand new MacBook Pro: Undercover from orbicule. It´s important to activate apples firmeware password protection to ensure that a harddrive reformatting or replacement will not allow booting up your mac without password. An alternative firewall for mac to control outgoing connections from your apps and ... http://www.screenshot.at/blog/2009/07/05/macbook-anti-theft-software-and-firewall/