Comments for chafic.com http://chafic.com Technical discussion of Flex, Flash, and RIA development Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:56:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 Comment on Thread Hijacking by lolcoverboy http://chafic.com/2003/07/27/thread-hijacking/comment-page-1/#comment-245750 lolcoverboy Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:28:10 +0000 http://rewindlife.com/?p=40#comment-245750 Sup everyone, I finally decided to make an account on here after months of lurking lol so please bear with me... Since the community here is so awesome, I thought I'd share a few sites that I've been checking out lately. The first site is <a href="http://www.leetboss.com" rel="nofollow">leetboss.com</a>, its an awesome place to get good deals on electronics and watches. shipping's free too (not quite sure how it works out for them but hey, thats not my problem.) so that’s a plus. I also like going to volume rate. Prices aren’t as good as Leetboss (no free shipping, unfortunately), and some of their goods come slightly damaged because of bad packaging, but their selection is nice. Anyway, I hope this will solve your last minute holiday shopping headaches! Christmas shopping stresses me out more than midterm papers lol... Happy Holidays, Eric Sup everyone, I finally decided to make an account on here after months of lurking lol so please bear with me…

Since the community here is so awesome, I thought I’d share a few sites that I’ve been checking out lately.
The first site is leetboss.com, its an awesome place to get good deals on electronics and watches. shipping’s free too (not quite sure how it works out for them but hey, thats not my problem.) so that’s a plus.

I also like going to volume rate. Prices aren’t as good as Leetboss (no free shipping, unfortunately), and some of their goods come slightly damaged because of bad packaging, but their selection is nice.

Anyway, I hope this will solve your last minute holiday shopping headaches! Christmas shopping stresses me out more than midterm papers lol…

Happy Holidays,
Eric

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]]> Comment on My thoughts on why Silverlight isn’t for Flash Developers, and what does it really mean for Microsoft by Shaun http://chafic.com/2007/05/08/my-thoughts-on-why-silverlight-isn%e2%80%99t-for-flash-developers-and-what-does-it-really-mean-for-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-242673 Shaun Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:10:25 +0000 http://rewindlife.com/2007/05/08/my-thoughts-on-why-silverlight-isn%e2%80%99t-for-flash-developers-and-what-does-it-really-mean-for-microsoft/#comment-242673 I think you hit the nail on the head! It is also my belief that MS created Silverlight not to lure away Flash developers, which is a tiny number to begin with, but to keep their .NET developers working in within the MS ecosystem to produce RIAs. Why learn Actionscript when you can reuse your .NET experience to create something equivalent to Flash? I'm a Flash developer with prior .NET experience and a traditional CS background. I've looked at Silverlight. You can tell by the way the libraries and development environments are set up that it's geared towards pre-existing .NET developers. Whereas Flash is geared towards designers who picked up programming, WPF/Silverlight is designed purely for traditional programmers. That's why Flash development is so easy to pick up--it's pragmatic. Not so with the .NET framework. It's a behemoth designed for general programming. You can make almost anything with .NET. RIAs are just an add-on. There's no way a Flash designer/developer without traditional CS experience can pick it up. But as you rightly concluded, MS is not aiming for Flash developers with Silverlight. ;) There are a lot more .NET programmers than Flash developers. I think you hit the nail on the head! It is also my belief that MS created Silverlight not to lure away Flash developers, which is a tiny number to begin with, but to keep their .NET developers working in within the MS ecosystem to produce RIAs. Why learn Actionscript when you can reuse your .NET experience to create something equivalent to Flash?

I’m a Flash developer with prior .NET experience and a traditional CS background. I’ve looked at Silverlight. You can tell by the way the libraries and development environments are set up that it’s geared towards pre-existing .NET developers. Whereas Flash is geared towards designers who picked up programming, WPF/Silverlight is designed purely for traditional programmers. That’s why Flash development is so easy to pick up–it’s pragmatic. Not so with the .NET framework. It’s a behemoth designed for general programming. You can make almost anything with .NET. RIAs are just an add-on. There’s no way a Flash designer/developer without traditional CS experience can pick it up. But as you rightly concluded, MS is not aiming for Flash developers with Silverlight. ;) There are a lot more .NET programmers than Flash developers.

]]> Comment on Make empty elements with XSLT by Bob http://chafic.com/2004/04/14/make-empty-elements-with-xslt/comment-page-1/#comment-241758 Bob Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:02:47 +0000 http://rewindlife.com/?p=155#comment-241758 It's been a while since this thread was added to (by anything other than spambots), but I'll add that I was having the same problem. Empty elements with attributes were being given a closing tag, rather than the compact single, closed tag. In the end, adding the following attribute to the xsl:stylesheet element worked for me, xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" This, in conjunction with an xsl:output element with method="xhtml", produces single, closed tags with a space before the forward slash (because of compatibility problems that some old browsers have), which is exactly as I need it. I'm using Saxon-9b, by the way. It’s been a while since this thread was added to (by anything other than spambots), but I’ll add that I was having the same problem.

Empty elements with attributes were being given a closing tag, rather than the compact single, closed tag.

In the end, adding the following attribute to the xsl:stylesheet element worked for me,

xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”

This, in conjunction with an xsl:output element with method=”xhtml”, produces single, closed tags with a space before the forward slash (because of compatibility problems that some old browsers have), which is exactly as I need it.

I’m using Saxon-9b, by the way.

]]> Comment on My thoughts on why Silverlight isn’t for Flash Developers, and what does it really mean for Microsoft by Joel May http://chafic.com/2007/05/08/my-thoughts-on-why-silverlight-isn%e2%80%99t-for-flash-developers-and-what-does-it-really-mean-for-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-200439 Joel May Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:42:52 +0000 http://rewindlife.com/2007/05/08/my-thoughts-on-why-silverlight-isn%e2%80%99t-for-flash-developers-and-what-does-it-really-mean-for-microsoft/#comment-200439 Here's a crazy, wacky idea: Make a Visual Studio plug-in version of Flex. Adobe did it for Eclipse, why not do it for Visual Studio? I don't know how difficult it is or whether it is possible, but they should look into it. I'm not saying drop Eclipse or that VS is more important than Eclipse, but if Adobe wants those VS people, they should spend the $ and make it happen. I was a Visual Studio C guy for many years before switching to Flash/Flex. Visual Studio is a great development environment. It took me a while to get into Eclipse, and I still like VS more than Eclipse. If I could do my Flex and ASP.NET development with the same platform, I'd be happy guy. Here’s a crazy, wacky idea: Make a Visual Studio plug-in version of Flex. Adobe did it for Eclipse, why not do it for Visual Studio? I don’t know how difficult it is or whether it is possible, but they should look into it. I’m not saying drop Eclipse or that VS is more important than Eclipse, but if Adobe wants those VS people, they should spend the $ and make it happen.

I was a Visual Studio C guy for many years before switching to Flash/Flex. Visual Studio is a great development environment. It took me a while to get into Eclipse, and I still like VS more than Eclipse.

If I could do my Flex and ASP.NET development with the same platform, I’d be happy guy.

]]> Comment on Programming Flex 2.0 Shipping! by Mike http://chafic.com/2007/04/19/programming-flex-20-shipping/comment-page-1/#comment-195361 Mike Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:11:06 +0000 http://rewindlife.com/2007/04/19/programming-flex-20-shipping/#comment-195361 A good book with some great nuggets, but the code examples seem to be an afterthought. Is there anyway to get complete code examples? The code examples in the downloadable zip are just snippets. For example, the Chapter 18 code is hardly usable since you never show the entire application, other than snippets, and a picture of the running app. Also, organizing the code samples in a directory structure would sure be nice. A good book with some great nuggets, but the code examples seem to be an afterthought.

Is there anyway to get complete code examples? The code examples in the downloadable zip are just snippets. For example, the Chapter 18 code is hardly usable since you never show the entire application, other than snippets, and a picture of the running app.

Also, organizing the code samples in a directory structure would sure be nice.

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