Flex

Marcos Placona on September 4, 2011

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Here’s is something that got me scratching my head for a little while today while working on my new mobile application. In my new application, I’ll be reading XML off various different providers, so I have an interface that gets implemented in various classes to make sure they all [...]

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Marcos Placona on June 6, 2011

As some of you might have noticed, I have been building some mobile applications lately on my spare time specifically for the Blackberry Playbook. They are mainly built in Adobe Air using Actionscript 3 and Blackberry’s Tablet SDK.

On my latest application, I have found the need for a database, as it needs to store lots of user input data. The first option that comes to mind is SQLite, as it’s very simple to integrate, and has native support.

I will show here an integration example, and focus on a caveat I found while trying to use it on a real device.

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Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes I’m building a new Blackberry Playbook app, and when starting to work with internationalization, I got stuck with a bug that wouldn’t go away. I’m pretty sure this won’t just affect just this kind of application, but anything that is built using Flash Builder and requires resource bundle files. [...]

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Marcos Placona on December 24, 2009

Reading time: < 1 minute The first Flex 4 book (Hello! Flex 4) has just been released this month in the UK. I haven’t read it yet, so no way I could give any reviews on it, but from the interwebs, I can see it’s contents are really good. A must buy for the festive [...]

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Marcos Placona on December 8, 2009

Formatting dates with flex
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I’ve been working with some Adobe Flex recently, and was having some trouble formatting dates. For those who don’t know, here (in th UK) we use the format “dd/mm/yyyy” (Day/Month/Year) as opposed to people over in the States using “mm/dd/yyyy” (Month/Day/Year).

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