Christophe Herreman

I’m glad to announce that I’ll be speaking at the 5th FeWeb Congress on december 12th. FeWeb is the Belgian Federation for Web Developers and offers support of all kinds for professional web developers.

In my session, I’ll cover some of the current development we have going on at Indie Group for the next generation of our e-learning and assessment tool called Edumatic. We’ll have a look at what we are developing, why we chose Adobe Flex technology, what tools and frameworks we use and how it all fits together.

For a complete schedule, see the 5th FeWeb Congress Program.

Hope to see you there!

Indie Group nv zoekt voor onmiddellijke indiensttreding een

.NET Programmeur (M/V)
Voltijds voor onbepaalde duur

Kader
Indie Group ontwikkelt licentiesoftware en maatwerk multimedia voor interne en externe bedrijfscommunicatie, voor educatieve doeleinden en voor gaming en laat zich geregeld opmerken door innoverende projecten waarbij technisch vernuft en creativiteit op inventieve wijze gecombineerd worden.
Een weldoordachte mix van flexibele webtechnologie, offline media (CD-Rom, DVD) en interface design liggen steeds aan de basis van een functionele en gebruiksvriendelijke toepassing ten behoeve van de gebruiker, het product of de boodschap.

Profiel
- Profiel Bachelor Informatica, Master ICT, Burgerlijk/Industrieel Ingenieur Informatica
- Kennis van en ervaring met .NET 2.0, .NET 1.1,C#, Javascript, Ajax
- Goede kennis OOP, basis kennis UML en bij voorkeur kennis Design Patterns
- Vlot in het leggen van contacten, communicatief, zelfstandig en een goede team player
- Minstens 2 jaar ervaring
- Talenkennis: Nederlands en Engels is een must

Taken
U zal in overleg met de projectleider verantwoordelijk zijn voor de ontwikkeling en implementatie van internet en intranet applicaties.
U komt terecht in een team van creatieve multimedia ontwikkelaars binnen een jong en dynamisch bedrijf.

Contact: ann@indiegroup.be

The Logging API contained withing the Flex Framework allows you to control the messages logged in an application. By controlling, I mean filtering log messages by the package or class name they were logged from, and by their level (ALL, DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR, FATAL).

Logging messages is done by calling one of the log methods on an ILogger instance, e.g. logger.debug(”I’m a log message”), and replaces the need to call trace(). The Logging API offers standard support for logging to the console using the TraceTarget and you can also create your own log targets by implementing the ILoggingTarget interface.

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I was trying to create a typesafe enum today to hold a Debit and Credit value and realized it could not that easily be done in AS3. In AS2 or in Java (prior to Java 5 when there was no enum construct) you could do the trick by making the constructor of the enum private and instantiate the values as static constants. (See this blog post for an AS2 example.)

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I just created an Ant task to build Asdoc documentation files.

For this first version, the following attributes are supported:

• docSources: the directory with actionscript classes or packages
• windowTitle: title of the html file
• mainTitle: title in the top frame
• footer: footer text
• leftFramesetWidth: width in pixels of the left frameset
• output: the output directory
• executable: the path to the asdoc executable; leave this out if you have asdoc.exe in your PATH

In order to use it, follow these steps:

1. Download the asdoc ant task here
2. Unzip the file and copy the asdoc-ant.jar file to your project directory
3. Define the task in your build.xml file (see below)
4. Add a target with a call to the asdoc task (see below)
5. Run the target

Here's a complete example of a build file:

Feel free to contact me at info[AT]herrodius.com or leave a comment here if you find any bugs or have a feature request. The sources for this task will be added to the Prana SVN repository.