Category Archives: Technology

Taking a spin of iPhone SDK & Android SDK

Holiday is upon us and this post is triggered from some free time off from work. This blog post is about my first experience on taking a spin on iPhone SDK as well as Android SDK. When I write this post, I have not dived deep into both SDK yet. But I [...]

Using Mixin metadata with Module gotcha

This post is not about using Mixin metadata tag. There are tons of documentation on the web to explain about usage. Here are a couple of useful links:
http://adamflater.blogspot.com/2007/03/static-code-blocks.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flex/1/mixin/
In fact, this post is about to warn you about some of the examples. In short, when you use Mixin, Flex will make sure that [...]

When not to use “hasOwnProperty” when checking for property

While working on FlexSDK bugs, I got one of my patches rejected because I was using “hasOwnProperty” to check for property existed instead of “in”. Alex Huri says “For sealed classes, the practice is to use ‘in’ instead of hasOwnProperty”. You learned something everyday. Thanks Alex.