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Mike Labriola's blog on advanced Flex topics

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Strict Inequality

All code is not created equal

Excessive Recursion

Excessive ramblings by Ben Schmidtke III

Latest Blog Posts

Talking Trash – An overview of Player GC

CodeSlinger_10.11.11

Okay, so, I have been a little behind schedule actually posting content. Here is my first attempt at reconcilliation. These are the slides from my garbage collection talk at

Making a custom datagrid scrollbar? I hope the width=16…

StrictInequality_02.02.11

Flex has a lot of great facilities for styling and skinning, including custom scrollbars. Unfortunately, I’ve discovered that Flex really wants your vertical scrollbars to be 16 pixels wide. Whe ... More

JSFL: fl.addEventListener() & fl.removeEventListener()

ExcessiveRecursion_11.02.10

I’ve been experimenting with the Flash CS5 JSFL API lately and ran across these handy methods adding and removing event listeners to the fl object. However, I discovered that the functionality h ... More