So after reading “Professional Cairngorm” I decided that I would try using Cairngorm on my next project. Well that project is is the final stages of completion and I’d like to share my thoughts. The project was a dynamically driven Flex app embedded in a web-browser that could also run on AIR. The application was [...]
Archive for the ‘AIR’ Category
26 Dec
Book Review: Professional Cairngorm
This is a review of the book Professional Cairngorm by Jeremy Wischusen. When describing his motivations for writing this book the author tells a story about experience with Flex/AS3 development, but none of it using Cairngorm, then he had a job interview…. And in typical fashion, when he answered no to the “cairngorm experience” question, [...]
12 Feb
Easy Multipart file uploads / POSTs using URLStream or AS3HttpClientLib
When working on a cross runtime Zinc/AIR method method of posting files to a remote server, I came across Mike Stead’s URLFileVariable and URLRequestBuilder classes which makes the process of uploading multiple files (or ByteArray’s of data) via an HTTP POST much easier. Click here get his code The basic concept is this: assuming you [...]
21 Nov
Advanced HTTP operations in Flex outside of AIR
I am currently pretty deep into a Flex/AS3 RIA desktop app project whereby I have several advanced needs. Such as to download partial files to the desktop (byte-range requests), execute HEAD requests to get remote file sizes, execute multipart POSTs, talk to some REST apis, and finally be able to read any write HTTP headers….. [...]
30 Aug
Local disk IO write performance in MDM Zinc
UPDATE: MDM Zinc’s recent update of 3.0.10 added a new method for writing binary data from a ByteArray directly (windows only), please read this post for the latest info. NOTE that the below is still relevant for other platforms (Mac/Linux) I have recently been working on local disk IO in MDM Zinc using mdmScript as [...]
