Bill White’s Blog

After looking briefly at the API docs, I noticed that there are duplicates of several of the filter classes with the same name.  For example, there is a DropShadowFilter in the spark.filters package and there is another one by the same name in the flash.filters package.

I just checked the Adobe.com website and they’ve posted the links for the officially released versions of Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4. For those of you who have not yet taken a look at the great new features in Flex 4, I would encourage you to check it out. It is simply awesome.

Here are some additional thoughts about 360|Flex so far. In case you missed it, here is day 1. Day 2: Most of the developers here seem to favor macs over pc’s. My guess is that Apple has at least 60% of the flex-nerd market.  Nice. The axiis framework is really something special.  Once they get [...]

My co-worker, Joshua, and I have just completed our first full day of sessions at 360 Flex here in Indianapolis. So far it has been well worth it. Just some random thoughts and observations: The folks here are really cool and very friendly. They seem to be genuinely excited to be here. I’ve gotten to [...]

Back in 1995 while I was still in grad school, I discovered that the best way to learn all the different aspects of the computing world was to just jump right in . I already had a full time job as a network adminfor the university’s College of Education, but I was finding that all [...]

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