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Tequila sunrise

sema — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:18:05 +0000

Welcome! It is almost two months since I’ve posted last note, but it was not time wasted!. I’ve started using PureMVC more than two years ago, then time came for Fabrication. After dozen projects here I am, with some experience and my own thoughts about these tools. That how Tequila was born.

Tequila Console is AIR application to debug notification flow, framework issues and user log messages.

Please upgrade your Flash Player This is the content that would be shown if the user does not have Flash Player 9.0.115 or higher installed.

Hope you like it!.

IntelliJ IDEA 9.0 aka Maia

sema — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:15:56 +0000

Who knows me good enough knows that I’m big fan od FDT as main flex development tool. Couple months ago ( half a year probably ) one of my friends told me about IntelliJ IDEA. That time I spent maybe five minuts to install + run + check_couple_features and realised that I’m staying with FDT. Now, with the newest version of this tool ( 9.0, codename Maia ), I’ve been working for couple of days, and must say that I’m quite impressed about given flex support ( full mxml and flex4 (!) support that FDT still lacks ). All famous refactoring features that are offered are just incredible. Ofcourse, If you ( like I ) are used to eclipse you probably find that new UI and new terminology might look hard to understand, but I think it’s worth to spend some time on this software.

I’m still wating for true, real support for mxml in FDT , support for Gumbo and improved refactoring. All this things should be expected in FDT 4.0, but when I remember how long I was waiting for as3 support… Maybe it’s time to move to JetBrain tool for now?

Update. So, my first thougts about Maia:

+ refactoring is marvelous. Just like that.
+ full support for as/mxml ( including spark architecture )
+ lots of usable plugins ( UML, TeamCity, etc. )

= speed & memory issues ( quite similiar like eclipse )
= svn support. Changes view is quite cool but I’m missing some nice features from subversive in eclipse ( icon decorations, revision number per file/folder etc. )

- Maybe it is my fault, but I can’t get editor to perform live error checking in all classes in project. I have to open some class to see if there are some errors. It’s not good…
- Putting different icons for as3 class/interface would be good idea ( java sources have that )

The Ministry Of Ideas at “Witajcie w realu”

sema — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:11:52 +0000

November seems to be very busy month when it comes to various community events. As I mentioned earlier, Flex Challange is visiting Kraków in next two weeks and ( at the same time ) Wojtek will be presenting our company as main guest of “Witajcie w realu”. He will talk about all The Ministry Of Ideas – who we are, why we are here, what we do, how it looks inside, what makes all of us love our work and so on… If you are interested join us at Centrum Kultury “Rotunda”, Kraków, ul. Oleandry 1, 26th November at 20.15.

Flex Chellange Academic Tour 2009

sema — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:41:06 +0000

Last year’s Flex Chellange certainly can be considered a very successful event. The high level of competition, interesting applications and a very good organization foretold quite clear that this was not the first and last time…

This year’s edition is addressed mostly to the academic community. Tour to visit most of the university cities in Poland, promises to be quite a sizeable turnout, I also hope that this time there will be plenty of good stuff to watch.

I have the honor to participate (along with my friend Matthew, winner of last year’s edition with his cartoonair aka komixo ) as one of the jurors. See you on tour :)

You can check all info on flexchallenge.pl