Wed 23 Apr 2008
Video interview with me about Thermo
Posted by Narciso Jaramillo under design | development | Flex | Thermo2 Comments
It’s been busy here in Thermo-land, as we work furiously (no really! we’re furious people!) to turn our vision into reality. I have a fun side project that I’m going to post about in a little bit once I get a few bugs worked out. In the meantime, here’s a video interview that Ryan Stewart, Thermo evangelist extraordinaire, did with me about designer/developer workflow in Thermo and Flex 4. It was our first video, so it’s a little blurry and off-center, but just pretend it’s artsy and edgy and you’ll be fine. (We did edit out the part where the siren went off when someone went out the wrong door in the cafeteria.)
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As a developer and a developer / designer, I’m very interested to see how you make the connection between designer and developer in such a way that people will actually use this tool. I must say its a task to get things pixel perfect in Flex. I use programmatic skinning and its great, still have fairly common issues with getting borders and content to line up exactly like you want it.
Hi Gareth–we understand your pain 🙂 In Flex 4, a major focus of ours is going to be making component skinning much more flexible by removing a lot of the assumptions and restrictions the components have with respect to their skins. When combined with the ability to create graphics directly in MXML, this should make it much easier to achieve pixel-perfect skins and layouts.