Monthly Archives: April 2008

Taking Advantage of Closures in ECMAScript

I usually avoid nested functions (aka closures) like the plague. They just seem messy and there’s ample opportunity for memory waste. However, there are times when it makes perfect sense to use closures, such as when using them as event handlers for web service calls. Using closures makes understanding event flow, and therefore application logic, [...]

Lightroom 2 Beta - First Whiff

Lots of Adobe news lately and this time it’s the announcement of the Lightroom 2 public Beta available on Adobe Labs.

The first item to make an impact with me was the ‘getting started’ wizard you’re greeted by the first time you launch the application. Aimed at IUE (Initial User Experience), the getting started wizard [...]

MXML: Sweet, but Dirty

I’m not exactly sure why, but MXML kind of gives me a sickly sweet feeling. You know, the feeling you get from watching something that’s terrible, but beautiful (i.e. boxing). I really dig being able to lay out simple forms with a WYSIWYG editor, but I haven’t found too many cases where I can slide [...]