The Wikipedia Lookup Add-on started out as an experiment to try and learn more about Firefox extension development, but it ended up being a really neat add-on which is used daily by people around the globe. Although I haven’t added any new features the past three years it still gets installed and used!
Currently there is one new feature on the roadmap which has been requested numerous times. It’s the ability to choose more than one language to be displayed on the right-click menu for those who regularly read web pages in multiple languages. It’s scheduled to be completed some time in 09, so stay tuned.
If you have any questions or comments just drop them off here on this page, cheers.
When it comes to patterns there is one I always tend to use when writing Flex applications and that is the Presentation Model pattern. Using this pattern I am actually able to unit test most of my UI logic without having to write fragile tests which involve testing the actual UI components. recipie However there [...]
Being accustomed to the development tools for Java development it has been really frustrating to move into the world of Flex and Action Script with it’s immature IDE’s. However it seems as if this is finally getting attention at Adobe and the Open Source project FlexPMD is really becoming a great tool for assuring quality [...]
I have for some time been running Ubuntu on my work-at-home-computer. Having to work with Flex on Linux is a constant struggel and I can understand why most people would just give up. I can see that the number of Flex developers on Linux is quite small, however I think it’s a shame that we’re [...]