Tag Archives: flex

360 Flex

Rain is a big fan of the 360 Flex conferences. We send developers every time, and have noticed the conference quality increase with each year. We are pleased to announce that we are sending 5, count them 5 speakers. If … Continue reading

By: Bryce Barrand Categories: Blogroll / design / development / flash / flex / php / project management Tags: , , , , , , ,

Alternative Implementation of Grant Skinner’s Spelling Plus library (SPL)

Rain recently purchased a multi-seat site license for a great tool that is certain to save a lot of time and headache: Grant Skinner’s Spelling Plus Library (SPL – info here). This post describes some aspects of the implementation.  You … Continue reading

By: Bryan Elkins Categories: development / flash / flex Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Calculating Image Resolutions in Flex

Custom book builders are great Rich Internet Applications that we’ve made at Rain. One core component of custom book builders is allowing users to upload their own photos. The most common user error is uploading and using a photo that … Continue reading

By: Brady White Categories: Blogroll Tags: ,

Flex Custom Component Lifecycle

The purpose of this post is to identify what the component lifecycle is and how to utilize it to create components that are efficient and re-usable. I will cover both the functions we need to override as well as the … Continue reading

By: Nathan Ross Categories: flex Tags: , ,