While creating a sample application for some class content the other day, I ran into an XML/E4X situation that I’d never encountered before. It is pretty basic – deleting a node from XML. How does one do it? With the delete keyword of course! For example: [as]var myXML:XML = Hamburger Fries Med. Soda Lg. Soda [...]
Flex and Using Meta Data
“Metadata is data about data” in the case of Flex it is going to describe our components, classes and their interactions/uses. For example the most familiar metadata tag in Flex and AS3 code is [Bindable] this describes a property that can be bound to (obviously). But metadata is not limited to properties in Flex, you [...]
E4X XML Namespaces
For XML that looks like the following response from Yahoo’s weather service: When you need to access the nodes with complex node names such as yweather:location think XML namespaces. In the above example, look for the xmlns declaration in the rss node – xmlns:yweather=’http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/ns/rss/1.0′. Creating a Namespace object using the declaration will allow us to [...]
ApolloRanch in Boulder CO
ApolloRanch is a mini-conference similar to ApolloCamp. Thanks to Xylem CCI (Xlyem and Creation Chamber merged on April 30th) for putting together and hosting the ApolloRanch, they’ve done a great job so far! ApolloRanch is at the Fisk Planetarium (shoot for the starts Apollo!) on the CU campus in Bolder. Mike Chambers gave the keynote [...]
by on May 5, 2007
Cairngen 1.0 – Now with ANT
Eric Feminella created Cairngen as a code generation tool for Adobe Cairngorm. he developed it to do away with the redundant copy/paste work needed to create Flex applicatoins with Cairngorm and is released under the MIT license. Cairngen 1.0 is built entirely in Ant and provides a solution for one-shot code generation of Adobe Cairngorm [...]
