- How can we speed up the performance of DataGrid when there is a lot of data?
- How do we reduce SWF size so that the download times are lesser?
- My Flex application works fine when run from Flex Builder, but when deployed to server, I get security related errors. Why?
You always had questions like this and never knew where to go to get answers? Anirudh Sasikumar, a Technical Evangelist at Adobe has created a project called sandboxviolation. In his own words, sand box violation is “for the flex and flash community where users can post questions / answers and vote a question or answer up or down earning reputation points along the way”.
Its available in 2 flavors:
Flex App on Google App Engine | An AIR app with offline support
Check it out, benefit from it, post your questions, answer other’s questions, vote answers up/ down and help the community churn high quality content…
Addendum: Anirudh’s written a Syntax Highlighting in AS3 as part of the above project which is awesome and then opensourced the code which has now created quite a buzz. Check it out too 
February 17, 2009 at 4:41 am |
This is a great idea for an application, no more searching for answers. Thanks for sharing, this may save me many headaches when I make the player unhappy
February 17, 2009 at 7:37 am |
Nice effort, but am wondering how does this different from our communities or user group forums.
Doesnt this same pill in new packet ?
February 17, 2009 at 9:53 am |
Some differences:
Voting to encourage that good posts stay on top and users who contribute good content are recognized. An upvote on your question or answer gets you 10 points. A downvote takes away 10 points. The users view is ordered by points gained.
Syntax highlighting to visually help read code better; heavy moderation (by me) so that only relevant and re-usable questions remain.
Also, the site is aimed at intermediate to expert level questions. Though this is not a hard or stead-fast rule. With the AIR version, you have the data offline as well.
Open to any sort of feedback from the community (more votes a feature gets, that *will* get implemented): http://sandboxviolation.uservoice.com/
February 17, 2009 at 10:08 am |
As far as the “reputation” system is concerned, it works; check out your points, Anand.
February 17, 2009 at 3:59 pm |
Great resource ..
People should also check the Flex Cookbook @
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?productId=2
February 20, 2009 at 10:30 pm |
This looks like a gross ripoff of stackoverflow.com.
February 23, 2009 at 4:33 am |
It is. (“heavily inspired” is a polite term).And it has been mentioned in the About, Jeff has seen it as well.