Monthly Archives: March 2011

Revisiting the Builder Pattern in ActionScript for Immutable Models

Posted on 31 March, 2011 by jonny

A while back I made a post on using the Builder Pattern to create Fluent Constructors – the principle being that instead of having a Model object with a bajillion (in practice, more than 3) arguments, you make use of … Continue reading →

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FDT Template – Builder Pattern Helper

Posted on 30 March, 2011 by jonny

This FDT template is pretty much invaluable when it comes writing a Class that follows the Builder Pattern (for example, a Builder for a Fluent Constructor). public function ${value}(value : ${type}) : ${enclosing_type} { _${value} = value; return this; } … Continue reading →

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ANT: This compilation unit did not have a factoryClass

Posted on 29 March, 2011 by jonny

A coworker of mine just asked me how to deal with this MXMLC error which was being thrown during her ANT script when using the FLEX 4 SDK. This compilation unit did not have a factoryClass specified in Frame metadata … Continue reading →

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Flash / Flex Development on Windows – Tips and Tricks

Posted on 22 March, 2011 by jonny

This post is a brain dump of the various applications and tricks which make Flash / Flex development quicker and easier on a Windows based system in the hope that some of the them will be new to the people … Continue reading →

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MySQL Dump / Backup Batch Script for Windows

Posted on 13 March, 2011 by jonny

This is a small Windows Batch Script which I’ve created for dumping out all tables from a local MySQL Service; all the data gets dumped as a plain SQL file which is then archived using 7Zip.  This script will also … Continue reading →

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