Archive for January, 2008

Using class properties on custom components to reduce the size of Flex applications

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

When you build a custom component inheriting from UIComponent and you want to provide the ability for the end user to configure your component using different modes, you have to provide a property that will let him choose which mode to…

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Blinking circular gauge with ILOG Elixir

Friday, January 25th, 2008

In this post, I will use ILOG Elixir Gauges framework to build a circular gauge which blinks if the value of the gauge is greater than a threshold value. This kind of gauge can be useful to point out critical…

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ILOG Elixir Treemap, AIR and Jira RSS Feed (1)

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Treemaps can be used to visualize and find patterns in pretty much any kind of heavy data sets. An example of this is the demo running on ILOG Elixir web site that visualizes various figures about the Forbes Global 2000 companies.

If…

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