Re: [flexcoders] Re: Best practices for the naming of item renderers ?

2008-12-23 Thread Ricky Bacon
João wrote: I'm talking about some kind of coding conventions. In a team environment it's a good practice to make everyone follow the same coding conventions. Different programmers give more or less the same names to classes/methods/properties, etc since all of them follow the same rules.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Is Flex the wrong technology for widgets? SWF file sizes are too big...

2008-12-17 Thread Ricky Bacon
Josh McDonald wrote: I definitely agree with you Gabriel, you wouldn't catch me doing a non-Flex Flash project at all- I was under the impression the OP was *very* concerned about size, although that could just've been my (often lax) comprehension skills :) Strictly my opinion, but I'd do

Re: [flexcoders] Flex dates and time zones.

2008-12-16 Thread Ricky Bacon
Dale Fraser wrote: That whole milliseconds past 1970 is a Java thing and has bitten me before, one of many reasons we ditched Java. It's actually a Unix thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time The standard has been around for almost 40 years. -Ricky

[flexcoders] HTTPService and response headers

2008-12-11 Thread Ricky Bacon
This topic has probably been beaten to death, but I want to make sure I'm not missing something before writing a new service. Looking through the API docs and Google it seems the only way to access response headers is to use a proxy. Is this still the case? thanks -Ricky

Re: [flexcoders] Creating a Chart With 50,000 Data Points

2008-11-18 Thread Ricky Bacon
Mark Easton wrote: It appears that Flex Charts cannot handle generating charts with large DataSets. We tried with 50,000 data points and it thrashed away without producing a result after 6 minutes. It was able to plot 2,000 points in about 25 seconds. What is the recommended approach