Head Tracking VR Display with WiiMote
By Mims Wright | on January 25, 2008
In Hacks, Links, News, OMGWTFBBQ, Site-seeing, User Interface Design, Video Games | 1 Comment
Johnny Chung Lee is my nerd hero!
The State pattern in Flex - combining view states with logical states
By Mims Wright | on January 23, 2008
In AS3, Flex, Hacks, Programming, Software Design, Tutorial, User Interface Design | 2 Comments
If you’ve used Flex, you’ve no doubt (er, hopefully) been using View States (AKA <mx:State>) to change the look of your RIA as it progresses through different situations of use. While this is immeasurably useful, it does not necessarily qualify as an implementation of the State Design Pattern which allows you to change not only how a component looks but how it functions as well.
(for more on design patterns, read my favorite book Head first design patterns).
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Pimp my ‘clipse - a list of must-have Eclipse plug-ins for Flex/Flash Development
By Mims Wright | on December 17, 2007
In AIR, AS3, Eclipse, Flex, Hacks, Links, Organization, Programming, Rants, Serious Stuff, Tutorial, universalmind | 8 Comments
FlexBuilder may have its ups and downs but it still remains my pick for best AS3/MXML editor on the market (with TextMate not far behind). Part of the beauty of FlexBuilder is that it’s built on the Eclipse SDK, one of the most versatile and powerful IDEs available, which is not only free and open source, but boasts a wealth of third party plug-ins for every kind of (mostly Java) development. This article will take a look at some must-have plug-ins for doing Flex development as well as some tips for tricking out your development process.
As with all of our entries, your feedback, suggestions, corrections and additions are all more than welcome.
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