O’Reilly: Inside RIA

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...

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...

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...

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.