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Flex RIA Performance Considerations Part 4: The Display Hierarchy

Jun Heider
July 17, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (4)

Overview When building a Flex application, you need to consider the objects you display and how they interact with the end user, the Flash Player, and even the Flex Framework itself. Performance is all about doing things in the least...

Flex RIA Performance Considerations Part 3: Writing Efficient Code

Jun Heider
June 9, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Overview When you think about writing efficient code, the first couple things that come to mind are speed and memory footprint. Although keeping your applications responsive and quick while maintaining a reasonably small memory footprint is definitely a key consideration...

Flex RIA Performance Considerations Part 2: Application Startup

Jun Heider
April 29, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (14)

Overview As Flex developers we strive to create user experiences that are engaging and efficient. The mandate of this mantra requires us to take startup times into account. When we build our applications, the last thing that we...

Flex RIA Performance Considerations Part 1: Getting Started

Jun Heider
March 17, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (6)

Now that you've had a chance to get your feet wet with Adam and Scott's outstanding InsideRIA series on Learning Flex From Scratch (LFFS) it's time to start really thinking about optimizing your apps. Many new developer are just happy to build an application that works without thinking of the consequences of poor architecture, inefficient code, and over-zealous eye candy. Although you may be fine for a while, eventually a lack of concern for performance is going to stop you in your tracks. Thanks to Murphy's law, this inevitability will occur most often on very large or important projects, and oftentimes after they're two days away from launch.

FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 5: Mate, the Pure MXML Framework
Tony Hillerson

Let’s get this out of the way first thing. It’s Mah-tay, not M-eight. Like the drink, the creators of Mate, Nahuel Faronda and Laura Arguello, come from Argentina. If you’ve never tried Mate (the drink), you should - it’s tasty.... Continue Reading
FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 4: IoC With Swiz
Tony Hillerson

With a name like Swiz, it has to be good, right? Welcome back, friends, to part four of our ongoing effort to understand these four Flex frameworks. This time we’re going to look at Swiz, a relative newcomer, created by... Continue Reading
FrameworkQuest 2008 Part 3: Framework Agnostic Views with PureMVC
Tony Hillerson

Last week we took a look at how to clean up our Twitter client by using Cairngorm to separate the concerns according to the time honored MVC architectural pattern. Now we’re going to see how it feels to work with... Continue Reading
The Design of a Rich Spatial Flex Viewer for GeoWeb 2.0
Moxie Zhang

Despite all the movement toward Web 2.0, GeoWeb is still in the Web 1.0 age. In the quest to establish the Geospatial Web or GeoWeb 2.0, a rich spatial Flex Viewer has been created, and it’s free. All source code... Continue Reading