Entries from Deitte.com tagged with 'best practices'

Bindable Getters and Getting Faster

We had a "bring your questions" session at our last Boston Flash User Group meeting at Brightcove, and I thought three of the items I answered would be helpful for more people to read. Bindable Getters: If you're creating a...

Don't Use IFrames for HTML in Flex

The iframe solution to HTML in Flex has become a popular, unsupported way to embed HTML inside of a Flex application. I've written a lot about this, but I've never been very comfortable with the solution. I feel it's time...

Making Time for Helping Others

This is a non-development post, so you can stop reading now if you're only looking for Flex or video details. I'm a TODO list kind of person, with post-it notes and emailed lists that I keep for things I plan...

17 Thoughts on Scrum

Scrum is a development process most recognizable by its 30 day sprints. Brightcove uses Scrum for all of its development. I recently went to a course from Ken Schwaber for the exalted title of Certified Scrum Master (which comes with...

Using Asserts In Flex

I find myself using assertions all the time in my Flex classes and am curious if others do the same thing. Along with a logging system (to turn tracing on and off), and some unwritten unit tests, I find the...

Simplicity in Software

I just came across an excellent discussion on simplicity in software (via a post on scary software). It's on the blog of Nick Bradbury, who wrote Homesite and FeedDemon: Simplicity Ain't So Simple It's of special interest to me right...